issue-trees

issue-trees is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ConrayGambit/Strategy-Consultant-5-Consulting-Frameworks. It costs 58 tokens per session (973 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for breaking a broad problem into smaller root causes and testable questions, shown as a tree.

In plain words
What is it for?
Root-cause analysis, investigating why something went wrong, and dividing a strategic question into smaller problems.
Why use it?
It turns a vague problem into specific lines of investigation and makes the assumptions behind each branch visible.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Root-cause analysis, investigating why something went wrong, and dividing a strategic question into smaller problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/conraygambit/strategy-consultant-5-consulting-frameworks/issue-trees
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ConrayGambit/Strategy-Consultant-5-Consulting-Frameworks --skill issue-trees
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ConrayGambit/Strategy-Consultant-5-Consulting-Frameworks

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 973 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 $0.00058 $0.00973
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00487
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00097

Measured 10d ago against content hash 03b9f6b6e92a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issue-trees 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.

skills/issue-trees/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Issue Trees

Concept

An issue tree breaks a vague problem into progressively smaller, more concrete sub-problems until you reach something testable. Each branch is a hypothesis about why the parent problem exists. Done well, the leaves are things you can actually go investigate.

Required output format

A fenced code block with text syntax. Use ASCII box-drawing characters:

  • ├── non-final child
  • vertical continuation under a non-final child
  • └── final child at each level
```text
Core Problem
├── Category 1
│   ├── Sub-factor A
│   └── Sub-factor B
└── Category 2
    └── Sub-factor C
```

Rendering fallback

Some destinations mangle box-drawing characters — Slack, certain email clients, and some chat UIs render them as boxes or question marks. If you know the output is heading to one of those, use an indented-dash tree instead:

- Core Problem
  - Category 1
    - Sub-factor A
    - Sub-factor B
  - Category 2
    - Sub-factor C

It loses some elegance but stays readable everywhere. Default to box-drawing; switch only when needed.

This is "Slack mode." When the user asks for Slack / Teams / email / plain-text output (or names that as the destination), use this indented-dash form for the whole tree by default.

Defaults & flex points

Default When to flex
At least 2 levels deep A 1-level tree is a list. Push deeper. For complex problems, 3–4 levels.
3–8 words per node Stay short — long node text destroys readability.
Branches MECE at each level This one doesn't flex.
Stop when leaves are testable A leaf that says "we have problems with customers" isn't done. "Onboarding completion fell to 61%" is.

Example — marketing / conversion

Problem: E-commerce site conversion rate dropped from 3.2% to 1.9% over Q3.

Conversion 3.2% → 1.9%
├── Traffic mix shift
│   ├── Paid social spend redirected to top-of-funnel
│   ├── Branded search share fell
│   └── Affiliate program reduction
├── On-site experience
│   ├── Page-load time +800ms after CDN change
│   ├── New checkout layout shipped Aug 14
│   └── Mobile bounce rate climbing
├── Pricing & promotion
│   ├── Promo cadence reduced (cost-cutting)
│   ├── Free-shipping threshold raised $50 → $75
│   └── Competitor undercutting on top 20 SKUs
└── Inventory & merchandising
    ├── 12 hero SKUs out of stock
    ├── New collection launch delayed two weeks
    └── Recommendation algorithm retrained

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 lines

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 · 100 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 03b9f6b6e92a

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issue-trees is a skill published in the GitHub repository ConrayGambit/Strategy-Consultant-5-Consulting-Frameworks (23 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 973 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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