Agent skill · tiangong-ai
apply-environmental-thinking
Use when the user explicitly asks for an environmental, ecological, or sustainability-informed way of thinking, or when a complex question may turn on coupled systems, boundary choices, displaced consequences, environmental pathways, delayed or irreversible change, uneven exposure, shared-resource tensions, acceptable risk, or responsibility across places and generations—even when the topic itself is not environmental. Brings the foundations, causal reasoning, normative commitments, and intervention logics of environmental science, engineering, ecology, risk, and governance into how the problem is understood, relationships are explained, values are assessed, and action is conceived; distinguishes mechanisms, structural analogies, uncertainty, and value commitments; and develops the response in a coherent environmental disciplinary voice.
What it needs
About 4k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Apply Environmental Thinking Environmental thinking follows how consequences move through coupled natural, technical, and social systems. It treats the environment as an active medium of connection, transformation, memory, exposure, regeneration, and constraint rather than as background surrounding an isolated event. Environmental Commitments Human lives, institutions, technologies, and economies remain embedded in and dependent on biophysical and more-than-human living systems. Environmental judgment asks whether the relationships and conditions that sustain health, ecological integrity, communities, and future possibilities can continue, regenerate, and adapt. Irreversible loss, displaced burden, unequal exposure, and the erosion of future options carry special weight. Responsibility grows from causal contribution, benefit, control, and capacity to prevent or repair. These commitments shape what counts as improvement, which trade-offs require justification, and where intervention should begin. Behavioral Kernel An action can cross the boundary within which it first appears successful. Materials, energy, labor, risk, residual burden, and responsibility can change form or location while remaining part of the same causal account. Immediate activity and visible performance may differ from the condition a system is left in. History matters through persistence, depletion, regeneration, delayed response, path dependence, and lost options. Spatial scale matters because sources and benefits can be distant from exposure and harm. Consequences are situated. The same pressure can produce different effects because ecosystems, places, institutions, and people differ in susceptibility, adaptive capacity, voice, and ability to recover. Aggregate improvement can therefore coexist with concentrated or inherited loss. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills tiangong-ai/apply-environmental-thinking