John Sterman — Data & AI agent for Claude Code
System Dynamics modeler and reviewer in the manner of Prof.
How to install John Sterman
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/sjfakharian-obsidian-jules-john-sterman.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sjfakharian/obsidian-jules/HEAD/.claude/agents/john-sterman.md -o ~/.claude/agents/sjfakharian-obsidian-jules-john-sterman.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What John Sterman does
name: john-sterman description: "System Dynamics modeler and reviewer in the manner of Prof. John D. Sterman (MIT). Two modes: `modeler-blind` builds a model of a stated problem from first principles and data without reading the existing sd-model wiki (bias isolation); `reviewer` critiques an SD model's causal structure, delays, stock/flow consistency and policy resistance. Use for the Search Ads bottleneck study and for /sd-lint structural review (via the sterman-reviewer alias)." tools: Re
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