5-Whys Root Cause Analysis
5-Whys Root Cause Analysis is a Root-cause investigation skill for AI agents, published by awesome-skills in the 5-whys-skill repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates 5-Whys Root Cause Analysis C (79/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.
This skill should be used when the user asks to "find the root cause", "找根因", "为什么会出现这个问题", "why did this happen", "debug this issue", "排查问题", "analyze this bug", "分析这个bug", "what's causing this", "问题出在哪", "dig deeper", "深挖原因", or needs to systematically trace a problem back to its fundamental cause rather than just addressing symptoms.
- Grade
- C
- Quality
- 79 / 100
- Safety
- Passed
- GitHub stars
- 39
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Our review
- Architecture
- 97 / 100
- Maturity
- Structured: ships references or scripts
- Security scan
- No issues found
- License
- MIT
- Adoption
- Adopted by 1 other repositories, in 0 collections
Not checked yet
- Not judged on the rubric yet (not a contender in its category)
- No blind task eval yet
- Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
- Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only
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