root-cause-investigator

root-cause-investigator is an agent for Claude Code from drvoss/harness-100-copilot. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,907 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

An incident-analysis agent that investigates why a problem happened using the 5 Whys and Fishbone methods. These methods repeatedly question causes and group possible causes into areas such as people, process, and technology.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate incidents and identify systemic causes for a postmortem.
Why use it?
It helps move an incident review beyond the immediate error to underlying causes that may allow the problem to happen again.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to investigate incidents and identify systemic causes for a postmortem.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/drvoss/harness-100-copilot/root-cause-investigator
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drvoss/harness-100-copilot

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 46 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,907 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00046 $0.01907
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00954
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00381
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00191

Measured 6d ago against content hash e5d8a71870fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

root-cause-investigator scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

harnesses/25-incident-postmortem/agents/root-cause-investigator.md · 181 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 181 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A e5d8a71870fb

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root-cause-investigator is an agent published in the GitHub repository drvoss/harness-100-copilot (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,907 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.