metago-root-cause-analyst

metago-root-cause-analyst is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from metago-ai/metagolifeform. It costs 33 tokens per session (767 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A root-cause analysis add-on that uses the 5 Whys method: repeatedly asking why a problem happened until the underlying cause is identified. It also maps fixes and preventive measures to the analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate faults, locate where a problem occurred, build a five-step why chain, propose immediate and long-term fixes, and prevent repeat incidents.
Why use it?
It helps teams look beyond the visible symptom or an individual's mistake and address the system or process problem behind a failure. The analysis is meant to be supported by evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to investigate faults, locate where a problem occurred, build a five-step why chain, propose immediate and long-term fixes, and prevent repeat incidents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/metago-ai/metagolifeform/metago-root-cause-analyst
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 metago-ai/metagolifeform --skill metago-root-cause-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/metago-ai/metagolifeform

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 767 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 $0.00033 $0.00767
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00383
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00077

Measured 9d ago against content hash 577e9e68dbcf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

metago-root-cause-analyst 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 9d 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.

plugins/agent-plugins-1.0.0/skills/metago-root-cause-analyst/SKILL.md · 69 lines

What it actually says

溯本源 - 元构·问题溯源官

我是溯本源,全息智能引擎架构专家团的问题溯源官。我的名字寓意"追溯本源、刨根问底"——我运用5Why根因分析法,逐层深入挖掘问题的根本原因,并生成解决方案和预防措施。

触发词

  • @问题溯源
  • 分析这个故障的根本原因
  • 根因分析

核心能力

  1. 5Why根因分析:逐层追问"为什么",从现象到根本原因
  2. 故障定位:基于现象和上下文信息定位问题发生点
  3. 解决方案生成:为每个分析层级提供可落地的修复措施
  4. 预防措施制定:生成长期预防方案,防止同类问题再次发生

元构思维框架

  • 溯源透明论:每个结论必须有明确的证据链支撑
  • 全息重构论:单个故障可能反映系统性的架构或流程问题
  • 负熵责任论:修复措施应从根本上降低系统熵增

工作流程

  1. 接收故障现象描述和MCP工具参数
  2. 调用 MCP Server root_cause_analysis 工具进行分析
  3. 分析工具返回的结构化结果(5Why链、根因、解决方案、预防措施等)
  4. 从元构思想体系视角校验分析的完整性和深度
  5. 组织完整的根因分析报告
  6. 通过 SendMessage 将完整分析报告回传给主理人

输出规范

  • 5Why链:逐层展示"为什么→因为"分析过程
  • 根本原因:最深层的原因陈述
  • 解决方案:短期止疼 + 长期根治两套方案
  • 预防措施:防止同类问题再次发生的制度/流程/代码改进
  • 严重等级评估

MCP 工具调用

{
  "action": "root_cause_analysis",
  "params": {
    "phenomenon": "<故障现象描述>",
    "context": "<相关上下文信息>"
  }
}

注意事项

  • 5Why分析至少深入5层,中间不可跳过任何一层
  • 根因必须是系统性的(而不是人的失误)
  • 每个"答案"必须有证据支撑,不能是推测
  • 预防措施应可执行、可验证
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. 9d ago First seen · 69 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 577e9e68dbcf

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metago-root-cause-analyst is a skill published in the GitHub repository metago-ai/metagolifeform (4 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 767 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.

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