five-whys SKILL.md skillA
five-whys from wesammustafa/claude-code-everything-you-need-to-know is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add wesammustafa/claude-code-everything-you-need-to-know/five-whys@git:20261006.11cadf7Pins git:20261006.11cadf7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- wesammustafa/claude-code-everything-you-need-to-know
- Path
examples/intermediate/01-first-skill/dot-claude/skills/five-whys/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261006.11cadf7, committed Oct 6, 2026
- Size
- 1,603 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3,462
- License
- MIT
Finds the root cause of a bug, failure or recurring problem by asking "why" until the answer is a cause you can fix. Use when the user asks why something keeps happening, or wants the root cause rather than a quick fix.
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
Find the root cause of this problem: $ARGUMENTS If no problem is given, ask for one in a single sentence, then stop. 1. Restate the problem as a symptom someone can observe: what happens, where and when. 2. Ask "Why does this happen?" Answer from evidence: the code, tests, logs and git history. Mark any answer you can't back with evidence as a guess. 3. Ask "Why?" of that answer, and keep going until the answer is a cause the team can change. That often takes about five rounds; stop sooner if you get there, and say so if you need more. 4. Check the chain backwards: each cause must explain the step before it. 5. Report the chain as a numbered list, the root cause in one sentence, then one fix for the root cause and one for the symptom. Don't change any files. Propose the fixes and let the user decide.
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add wesammustafa/claude-code-everything-you-need-to-know/five-whys@sha256:0dadec96f67beecbThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261006.11cadf7, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 6, 2026.
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 (1603 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
wesammustafa/claude-code-everything-you-need-to-know · 3,462 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cy3proulmprp3gqg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wesammustafa/claude-code-everything-you-need-to-know/five-whys GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0dadec96f67beecb4a292f1132d4d18e23b69fb746d5faa4b890725a214648bc
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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