RootCauseAnalysis
RootCauseAnalysis is a Structured reasoning & decision frameworks skill for AI agents, published by danielmiessler in the LifeOS repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates RootCauseAnalysis C (79/100) and it passed the safety scan; a judge model has also reviewed it.
Structured incident investigation using Five Whys, Fishbone, blameless Postmortem, Fault Tree, Kepner-Tregoe, and FMEA — traces failures to systemic root causes rather than blaming humans. USE WHEN root cause, RCA, 5 whys, fishbone, postmortem, incident analysis, fault tree, why does this keep failing, blameless, recurring bug. NOT FOR systemic loops (use SystemsThinking).
- Grade
- C
- Quality
- 79 / 100
- Safety
- Passed
- GitHub stars
- 16,717
Placed #1 of 3 when judged against its near-duplicates in Structured reasoning & decision frameworks.
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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 0 other repositories, in 0 collections
- Scope
- Vendor-specific: built around one product. RCA frameworks wired into LifeOS's own customization and notification system
Judge review
Placed #1 of 3 when judged against its near-duplicates in Structured reasoning & decision frameworks.
- Trigger
80 80 - Instructions
82 82 - Specificity
78 78 - Safety
48 48 - Disclosure
78 78 - Maintenance
60 60
The sharpest actionability bar of the three variants ('you've done triage, not RCA') plus the most granular method-level routing.
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