root-cause-analysis

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SKILL.md

Root Cause Analysis

Symptom → hypothesis formation → evidence gathering → elimination → root cause → verified fix.

<when_to_use>

  • Diagnosing system failures or unexpected behavior
  • Investigating incidents or outages
  • Finding the actual cause vs surface symptoms
  • Preventing recurrence through understanding
  • Any situation where "why did this happen?" needs answering

NOT for: known issues with documented fixes, simple configuration errors, guessing without evidence

</when_to_use>

<discovery_phase>

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