awesome-root-cause SKILL.md skillA
awesome-root-cause from khasky/awesome-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add khasky/awesome-agent-skills/awesome-root-cause@git:20261019.a19c2a5Pins git:20261019.a19c2a5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- khasky/awesome-agent-skills
- Path
skills/awesome-root-cause/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 12
- Latest version
- git:20261019.a19c2a5, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 30, 2026
- Size
- 10,118 bytes
- Repository stars
- 30
- License
- MIT
Root-cause analysis for incidents, recurring failures and process problems with no failing test: 5 Whys, fishbone, PDCA, A3. Use for a postmortem or why something keeps happening.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Root Cause Analysis Find the real cause of an incident, a recurring failure, or a process problem — the kind with no failing test to reproduce — and drive it to a durable countermeasure. Blame-free by design: the goal is a systemic fix, not a person to fault. ## When to use vs awesome-bug-fix and awesome-performance-audit - This skill — an outage retro, a "this keeps breaking", a data-quality or handoff or deploy-process problem, a near-miss. The failure lives in process, environment, or coordination, and you can't just run it and watch it fail. - awesome-bug-fix — a specific code bug with a reproduction. If you can write a failing test, use that skill; come here when there's nothing to run. - awesome-performance-audit — a service or page that is slow, leaks memory or spikes in latency, even on a recurring schedule; measurement comes before asking why. If the problem is a mix (a code bug that a broken process let ship), fix the bug in awesome-bug-fix and use this skill on the process that allowed it. ## Workflow ### 1. Frame the problem …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add khasky/awesome-agent-skills/awesome-root-cause@sha256:820f09b9f58a8e6eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.a19c2a5, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3f5pztncv5a47qp6)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 12 versions of this file, between Jul 30, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 7 days.
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| git:20261019.a19c2a5 latest | 2026-10-19 | a19c2a5 | 10,118 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261010.3b37a6b | 2026-10-10 | 3b37a6b | 10,173 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.eca990b | 2026-09-25 | eca990b | 9,048 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.d850440 | 2026-09-25 | d850440 | 9,183 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260918.de12e6b | 2026-09-18 | de12e6b | 9,083 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260918.18278a0 | 2026-09-18 | 18278a0 | 9,049 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260910.ad72ad4 | 2026-09-10 | ad72ad4 | 9,050 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260908.d830ad3 | 2026-09-08 | d830ad3 | 9,154 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.a1a440c | 2026-09-05 | a1a440c | 7,144 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260826.1a7b9f7 | 2026-08-26 | 1a7b9f7 | 7,143 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260802.f13bf3c | 2026-08-02 | f13bf3c | 6,282 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260730.2187eaa | 2026-07-30 | 2187eaa | 4,903 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10118 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
khasky/awesome-agent-skills · 30 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3f5pztncv5a47qp6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=khasky/awesome-agent-skills/awesome-root-cause GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/820f09b9f58a8e6e3c0a2f4d2b0adfd80c9132523ffc3e2d5072f7150e3eea43
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