Root Cause Analysis

by rohitg00

Root Cause Analysis is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by rohitg00 in skillkit.

1.5K stars137 forkson rohitg00/skillkitAdded 2026/08/19+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/06/02

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Install Root Cause Analysis

Copy Root Cause Analysis 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/rohitg00/skillkit/tree/main/packages/core/src/methodology/packs/debugging/root-cause-analysis ~/.claude/skills/root-cause-analysis

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/rohitg00/skillkit.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: packages/core/src/methodology/packs/debugging/root-cause-analysis/SKILL.md in rohitg00/skillkit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/root-cause-analysis
Collection: One of 17 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Root Cause Analysis does

Root Cause Analysis performs structured investigation to identify the true source of bugs, errors, and unexpected behavior. Use when a bug is reported and you need to debug, troubleshoot, or find why something is broken.

Root Cause Analysis is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Root Cause Analysis comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentskills, ai, cli and codex.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Why did the API return an error? → The database query failed
Why did the database query fail? → The connection pool was exhausted
Why was the pool exhausted? → ROOT CAUSE: Missing finally block to close connections

Investigation Phases

Phase 1: Reproduce the Bug

Before investigating:

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

Frequently asked about Root Cause Analysis

What else does rohitg00 publish alongside Root Cause Analysis?
Root Cause Analysis is one of 17 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rohitg00/skillkit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Design First, Eval Injection Test and Find Skills. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Root Cause Analysis does, and is maintained by rohitg00 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rohitg00/skillkit page.
How does Root Cause Analysis compare to other Quality skills?
Root Cause Analysis ranks #665 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 Root Cause Analysis against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.