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🐛 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 identif

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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 identif. This skill provides a specialized system prompt that configures your AI coding agent as a root cause analysis expert, with detailed methodology and structured output formats.

Compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, OpenClaw, Cline, and any agent that supports custom system prompts.

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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 identif

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