extended-rca

What problem does it solve?

The Extended Root Cause Analysis skill addresses the need for deep, structured post-incident analyses that go beyond attributing blame to reveal trigger, proximate, contributing, and systemic causes, with explicit corrective actions and a verifiable self-check.

Core Features & Use Cases

• 5-Whys chains that avoid stopping at human actions and encourage deeper systemic thinking.
• Fishbone-based hypothesis generation across People, Process, Code, Infrastructure, Data, and External dependencies.
• Layered findings with four causal layers (Trigger, Proximate, Contributing, Systemic) and a rigorous corrective-action taxonomy (Prevent, Detect, Mitigate, Respond).
• Self-check driven artifact templates and references to ensure completeness, blamelessness, and auditability.

Quick Start

Provide the incident details (summary, timeline, and logs) and run the skill to generate an extended RCA with the default mode.