root-cause-analysis
✓Conducts systematic root cause analysis using proven methodologies including Toyota's 5 Whys, Ishikawa fishbone diagrams, Pareto analysis, and fault tree analysis. Use when investigating bugs, debugging code, troubleshooting systems, diagnosing equipment failures, analyzing life problems, or identifying underlying causes of any issue across software engineering, hardware maintenance, process failures, or personal challenges.
Installation
SKILL.md
This skill helps you systematically identify the root cause of any problem using proven methodologies from the Toyota Production System and other industry-standard techniques.
| Your Problem Type | Load Resource | Why |
| Need to understand 5 Whys, Fishbone, Pareto, Fault Tree methodology | resources/rca-methodologies.md | Learn each method step-by-step with examples | | Looking for common root causes in your domain | resources/common-root-causes.md | Pattern match against known causes: software, hardware, process, personal |
Conducts systematic root cause analysis using proven methodologies including Toyota's 5 Whys, Ishikawa fishbone diagrams, Pareto analysis, and fault tree analysis. Use when investigating bugs, debugging code, troubleshooting systems, diagnosing equipment failures, analyzing life problems, or identifying underlying causes of any issue across software engineering, hardware maintenance, process failures, or personal challenges. Source: markpitt/claude-skills.
Facts (cite-ready)
Stable fields and commands for AI/search citations.
- Install command
npx skills add https://github.com/markpitt/claude-skills --skill root-cause-analysis- Source
- markpitt/claude-skills
- Category
- {}Data Analysis
- Verified
- ✓
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01
- Updated
- 2026-02-18
Quick answers
What is root-cause-analysis?
Conducts systematic root cause analysis using proven methodologies including Toyota's 5 Whys, Ishikawa fishbone diagrams, Pareto analysis, and fault tree analysis. Use when investigating bugs, debugging code, troubleshooting systems, diagnosing equipment failures, analyzing life problems, or identifying underlying causes of any issue across software engineering, hardware maintenance, process failures, or personal challenges. Source: markpitt/claude-skills.
How do I install root-cause-analysis?
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/markpitt/claude-skills --skill root-cause-analysis Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code or Cursor
Where is the source repository?
https://github.com/markpitt/claude-skills
Details
- Category
- {}Data Analysis
- Source
- skills.sh
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01