kepner-tregoe-analysis

A structured method for solving problems and choosing between options. It uses four steps: assess the situation, find causes, compare choices, and anticipate risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for root-cause investigations, troubleshooting, comparing alternatives with weighted criteria, and planning for possible problems.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with a consistent way to define problems, test possible causes, and weigh decisions.

Plugin for Claude Code

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add ddunnock/claude-plugins
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/ddunnock/claude-plugins/kepner-tregoe-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ddunnock/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

kepner-tregoe-analysis 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 2d 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.

skills/kepner-tregoe-analysis/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 18 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "kepner-tregoe-analysis",
  "description": "Conduct Kepner-Tregoe (KT) Problem Solving and Decision Making (PSDM) analysis using the four rational processes - Situation Appraisal, Problem Analysis, Decision Analysis, and Potential Problem Analysis. Use when performing structured root cause analysis, making complex decisions, evaluating alternatives with weighted criteria, conducting IS/IS NOT specification analysis, anticipating implementation risks, troubleshooting complex issues, or when user mentions \"Kepner-Tregoe\", \"KT method\", \"IS/IS NOT\", \"situation appraisal\", \"decision analysis\", \"MUSTS and WANTS\", \"potential problem analysis\", or needs systematic problem-solving methodology. Includes specification matrices, decision scoring, quality rubrics, and professional report generation.",
  "version": "1.0.1",
  "author": {
    "name": "dunnock"
  },
  "keywords": [
    "kepner-tregoe",
    "kt",
    "psdm",
    "decision-analysis",
    "problem-analysis",
    "is-is-not",
    "musts-wants"
  ]
}
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. 2d ago First seen · 18 lines scan A 899d096c99a7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kepner-tregoe-analysis is a plugin published in the GitHub repository ddunnock/claude-plugins (12 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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 2026-08-30.