Five Whys Root Cause Analysis
Five Whys Root Cause Analysis is a Root-cause investigation skill for AI agents, published by jbdamask in the john-claude-skills repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates Five Whys Root Cause Analysis C (73/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.
Evidence-based root cause diagnosis using a branching five-whys investigation. Produces a likelihood-ranked list of candidate root causes — diagnosis only, never a fix. Use ONLY when the user explicitly asks to diagnose a problem or find a root cause, with phrases like "find the root cause", "diagnose this", "do a five whys check", "root cause analysis", "why is this happening", or "run a five whys". Do NOT trigger on generic mentions of errors, bugs, or fix requests.
- Grade
- C
- Quality
- 73 / 100
- Safety
- Passed
- GitHub stars
- 26
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Our review
- Architecture
- 97 / 100
- Maturity
- Basic: a single SKILL.md
- Security scan
- No issues found
- License
- MIT
- Adoption
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