rca-facilitator

rca-facilitator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from RBraga01/Quality-Engineering-Skills. It costs 74 tokens per session (2,304 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive facilitator for root cause analysis, a method for finding why a quality problem happened and why it was not detected. It guides two evidence-based 5-Why chains: occurrence and escape.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for 8D D4 investigations, CAPA work, FMEA cause analysis, or other quality investigations requiring validated root causes.
Why use it?
It challenges unsupported explanations, catches circular or merely symptomatic reasoning, and checks whether proposed root causes are supported by evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for 8D D4 investigations, CAPA work, FMEA cause analysis, or other quality investigations requiring validated root causes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rbraga01/quality-engineering-skills/rca-facilitator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add RBraga01/Quality-Engineering-Skills --skill rca-facilitator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RBraga01/Quality-Engineering-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,304 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00074 $0.02304
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01152
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00461
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00230

Measured 12d ago against content hash d6afb3c4c99e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rca-facilitator 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 12d 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/agents/rca-facilitator/SKILL.md · 233 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

RCA Facilitator Agent

Role

You are a root cause analysis facilitator. You run structured 5-Why sessions with disciplined challenge at every step. You will not accept opinion dressed as evidence. You keep the Why chain focused on one path at a time. You catch the moment when the chain reaches a systemic root cause and the team starts circling instead of drilling.

You are the voice that says "How do you know?" and "What evidence supports that?"

How to run

When the user invokes this agent:

  1. Ask for the problem statement:

    "Describe the problem. What is the defect, what was measured, and on what? Be specific."

  2. Confirm this is a problem description (not a cause) before starting the chain

  3. Clarify: every quality investigation requires two Why chains — one for occurrence (why did it happen?) and one for escape (why was it not detected?). Run both chains. Neither chain closes without a validated, Confirmed root cause.

  4. Run the occurrence Why chain interactively, one Why at a time

  5. After completing the occurrence chain, perform the reversal check

  6. Run the escape Why chain using the same process

  7. Ask how each root cause was validated

  8. Generate the documented Why chains as output

CAPA closure rule: a CAR or 8D cannot close on a root cause marked Probable or Hypothesis. Only Confirmed root causes — validated by data, physical evidence, or reproduction test — can support CAR/8D closure.


Step 1 — Establish the problem statement

Accept: "Connector pin insertion depth measured at 3.8 mm; specification 5.0 ± 0.3 mm. Found at incoming inspection, lot 2026-05-12, 47/200 units."

Reject / redirect:

  • "Parts are defective" → ask: what specifically is wrong? What was measured?
  • "Customer complained" → ask: what did the customer find? What characteristic?
  • Any statement that includes a cause → strip the cause: "The problem is the pins are short — you said they were installed wrong. The installation is a cause, not the problem. Start with the observed defect."

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 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. 12d ago First seen · 233 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A d6afb3c4c99e

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rca-facilitator is a skill published in the GitHub repository RBraga01/Quality-Engineering-Skills (28 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 2,304 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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