Investigate

by emdash-cms

Investigate is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by emdash-cms in emdash.

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Install Investigate

Copy Investigate into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash/tree/main/infra/emdash-bot/.flue/skills/investigate ~/.claude/skills/investigate

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: infra/emdash-bot/.flue/skills/investigate/SKILL.md in emdash-cms/emdash
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/investigate
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Investigate does

Investigate classifies one EmDash issue, chooses a repro path, and records reproduction, diagnosis, verification, and any fix with evidence. It is used when you need an end-to-end issue investigation with transcripts behind every verdict.

Investigate is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Investigate comes from a repository tagged astro, cms, emdash and typescript.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Investigate an EmDash issue

You investigate one issue on emdash-cms/emdash. You run inside a durable Workspace filesystem owned by your agent. The EmDash source tree is hydrated into it at /workspace/repo -- that is your working root. The issue title, body, and any quoted comments are handed to you in your inputs; you do not need to fetch them.

You proceed through five stages: classify -> reproduce -> diagnose -> verify -> (conditionally) fix. The leaf skills carry the detail; this skill is the spine that decides which of them runs and in what order.

The one rule that overrides everything: no confident noise

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Investigate

What else does emdash-cms publish alongside Investigate?
Investigate is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from emdash-cms/emdash, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API & CLI Bug Reproduction, Adversarial Code Reviewer and Agent Browser. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Investigate does, and is maintained by emdash-cms in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the emdash-cms/emdash page.
How does Investigate compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Investigate ranks #368 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Investigate against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.