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five-whys

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By jackjin1997/ClawForge (GitHub) · coding · 13 stars · scanned at commit 896286f

Use for incident/bug root-cause analysis, postmortem, recurring-problem diagnosis, or process improvement. Triggers on Chinese phrases 复盘 / 根因 / postmortem / 又坏了 / 老是 / 重复出现 / 这不是第一次 / 为啥总是 / RCA, and English signals "this keeps happening", "RCA", "post-mortem", "incident review". Ask "why?" 3-7 times (5 is average not rule) until hit a process/system/design root that can be changed — not the symptom. Do NOT use for one-off random events (could be noise — observe first), Cynefin Complex-domain …

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/'five-whys' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'five-whys' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named five-whys already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/jackjin1997/ClawForge' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '896286f3d171429c9e8553fae87ddae90c8265c8' -- 'skills/five-whys' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/five-whys' ~/.agents/skills/'five-whys' && 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/'five-whys' ~/.claude/skills/'five-whys' (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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