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root-cause-trace

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap (GitHub) · coding · 11 stars · scanned at commit ece4cd7

Use when errors occur deep in execution and you need to trace back to the original trigger. Applies 5-step investigation — observe, hypothesize, trace backwards, binary search, prove.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'root-cause-trace' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'root-cause-trace' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named root-cause-trace already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'ece4cd74aa7ad312d11d5b9b2a1a30a49d96c58d' -- '.claude/skills/root-cause-trace' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'.claude/skills/root-cause-trace' ~/.agents/skills/'root-cause-trace' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'root-cause-trace' ~/.claude/skills/'root-cause-trace' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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