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022-root-cause-analysis

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By jabrena/plinth (GitHub) · coding · 461 stars · scanned at commit bbdd3f8

Use when a framed problem needs root-cause investigation rather than a symptom-level fix, applying Five Whys, Fishbone (Ishikawa), Current Reality Tree, and constraint identification. This should trigger when an issue's Root Cause Analysis point of view needs evaluation, or when a maintainer directly asks to find the root cause of a problem before proposing a fix. Part of Plinth Toolkit

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/'022-root-cause-analysis' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'022-root-cause-analysis' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named 022-root-cause-analysis already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/jabrena/plinth' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'bbdd3f84aa085ab41151eb49d8da449762d32d83' -- 'skills/022-root-cause-analysis' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/022-root-cause-analysis' ~/.agents/skills/'022-root-cause-analysis' && 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/'022-root-cause-analysis' ~/.claude/skills/'022-root-cause-analysis' (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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