ase-meta-why SKILL.md skillA
ase-meta-why from rse/ase is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rse/ase/ase-meta-why@git:20260804.1f36aa7Pins git:20260804.1f36aa7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rse/ase
- Path
plugin/skills/ase-meta-why/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260804.1f36aa7, committed Aug 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 20, 2026
- Size
- 7,678 bytes
- Repository stars
- 62
- License
- Apache-2.0
Five-Whys Root-Cause Analysis.
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
@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-control.md
@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-skill.md
@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-getopt.md
<purpose name="ase-meta-why">
Five-Whys Root-Cause Analysis
</purpose>
<expand name="getopt"
arg1="ase-meta-why"
arg2="--depth|-d=5 --width|-w=1">
$ARGUMENTS
</expand>
<objective>
Apply the *Five-Whys* *root-cause analysis* technique to investigate
the following problem:
<problem>Why <getopt-arguments/>?</problem>
For this, iteratively ask "why" to drill down from symptoms to the root-cause.
This helps to identify the fundamental reason behind a problem rather than just
addressing surface-level symptoms.
</objective>
<flow>
1. <step id="STEP 1: Restate Problem">
<if condition="<getopt-arguments/> is empty">
Only output the following <template/> and then immediately *STOP*
processing the entire current skill:
<template>
⧉ **ASE**: ✪ skill: **ase-meta-why**, ▶ ERROR: expected a `<fact>` argument
</template>
</if>
State the problem statement.
<template>
<ase-tpl-bullet-signal/> **PROBLEM**: <problem/>
</template>
</step>
2. <step id="STEP 2: Root-Cause Analysis">
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add rse/ase/ase-meta-why@sha256:5d25d5dc53215262The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260804.1f36aa7, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jul 20, 2026 and Aug 4, 2026, about one every 4 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260804.1f36aa7 latest | 2026-08-04 | 1f36aa7 | 7,678 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260804.af0eeb8 | 2026-08-04 | af0eeb8 | 7,388 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260801.f1208fb | 2026-08-01 | f1208fb | 7,377 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260721.567877d | 2026-07-21 | 567877d | 7,373 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260720.5dc4039 | 2026-07-20 | 5dc4039 | 7,382 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 (7678 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
rse/ase · 62 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_e4qb7td3puiaf6xx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rse/ase/ase-meta-why GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5d25d5dc532152629b091fbaaa0202bbf63409fbfef2f7a56fbd51eb80e90e73
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