investigate

investigate is a Root-cause investigation skill for AI agents, published by Borda in the AI-Rig repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates investigate D (62/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Systematic diagnosis for unknown failures — local environment, tool setup, CI vs local divergence, hook misbehavior, and runtime anomalies. Gathers signals broadly, ranks hypotheses, uses adversarial review (Codex or foundry:challenger) for ambiguous cases, probes each, and reports root cause with a recommended next action. NOT for known code bugs (/develop:debug (requires `develop` plugin)) or config quality (/foundry:audit). TRIGGER when: unknown failure with no Python traceback — hook not firing, CI passes locally but fails remotely, background agent stalled, behavior inconsistent with config; phrases: "not working but config looks right", "hook not triggering", "why isn't X running". SKIP: Python traceback present (use develop:debug (requires `develop` plugin)); known code bug with repro (use develop:fix (requires `develop` plugin)); pure config quality check (use foundry:audit).

Grade
D
Quality
62 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
23

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View source on GitHubBorda/AI-Rig

Our review

Architecture
96 / 100
Maturity
Basic: a single SKILL.md
Security scan
Low-risk patterns
License
Apache-2.0
Adoption
Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections

What the scanner flagged

  • mentions secrets in text

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  • Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only

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