xiigen-root-cause-tracing

xiigen-root-cause-tracing is a cursor rule for Cursor from lubochka/xiigen-general-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (190 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for tracing a visible error back to the first point where something went wrong.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reproduce a problem, inspect the path leading to it, test possible causes, and confirm that the fix addresses the source.
Why use it?
It prevents treating a later symptom as the real cause, especially when failures are indirect or have several possible explanations.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use it to reproduce a problem, inspect the path leading to it, test possible causes, and confirm that the fix addresses the source.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/lubochka/xiigen-general-skills/xiigen-root-cause-tracing
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/lubochka/xiigen-general-skills

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 190 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 original 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 $0.00000 $0.00190
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00095
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00019

Measured 10d ago against content hash d31bb254f3f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

xiigen-root-cause-tracing 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 10d 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.

cursor/rules/xiigen-root-cause-tracing.mdc · 35 lines

What it actually says

Root Cause Tracing

Purpose

Find the cause behind a symptom.

When to Use

Use when a failure repeats, appears indirect, or has multiple possible causes.

Inputs

Reproduction steps, logs, changed files, dependency boundaries.

Steps

  1. Reproduce or isolate the symptom.
  2. Trace backward to the first bad point.
  3. Test one hypothesis at a time.
  4. Confirm the fix addresses the cause.

Gates

The explanation accounts for the observed symptom and the chosen fix.

Evidence

Repro notes, hypothesis checks, and before/after behavior.

Anti-Patterns

Treating downstream error messages as the root cause.

failure-triage, systematic-debugging

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. 10d ago First seen · 35 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d31bb254f3f6

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xiigen-root-cause-tracing is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository lubochka/xiigen-general-skills (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 190 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.