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022-root-cause-analysis
jabrena/plinthSkill
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
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 454 stars are split between them (about 45 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 66/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 86b41dc8b130, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.
A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan
Alternatives
Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.
| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This one022-root-cause-analysis jabrena/plinth · Skill | 66 | ★ 454 | ≈103 always | 16d ago |
| root-cause-analyzer alirezarezvani/claude-code-tresor · Subagent Both about cause and root | 60 | ★ 782 | ≈63 in chat | 4mo ago |
| vibe-flake-root-cause ash1794/vibe-engineering · Skill Both about cause and root | 62 | ★ 164 | ≈117 always | 28d ago |
| root-cause-debugger wasintoh/toh-framework · Subagent Both about cause and root | 55 | ★ 98 | ≈30 in chat | 2mo ago |
| issue-root-resolution Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai · Skill Both about root and cause | 78 | ★ 7.9k | ≈57 always | 16d ago |
| ui-skills-root ibelick/ui-skills · Skill Both about root | 80 | ★ 9.9k | ≈29 always | 18d ago |