root_cause_analysis

root_cause_analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from redhat-et/rhdp-rca-plugin. It costs 63 tokens per session (3,392 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A troubleshooting workflow for failed Ansible Automation Platform jobs. It compares local job logs with Splunk records from OpenShift pods and checks related configuration in GitHub.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a failed AAP job, identify failed tasks, correlate them with OpenShift pod logs, and inspect the AgnosticD or AgnosticV configuration involved.
Why use it?
It brings scattered failure evidence together, so you do not have to search logs and configuration by hand to find what went wrong.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/redhat-et/rhdp-rca-plugin/v2
Any agent
npx skills add redhat-et/rhdp-rca-plugin --skill v2
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/redhat-et/rhdp-rca-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,392 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00063 $0.03392
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01696
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00678
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00339

Measured 4d ago against content hash b66025819a8a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

root_cause_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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (scripts/__init__.py, scripts/cli.py, scripts/config.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

experiments/combine_rca_context/v2/SKILL.md · 391 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 391 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Root Cause Analysis

Investigate failed jobs by correlating Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) job logs with Splunk OCP pod logs and analyzing AgnosticD/AgnosticV configuration to identify root causes.

This version uses Python scripts to parse job metadata and build GitHub investigation paths (Steps 1-4a). Then, use GitHub MCP tools to fetch configuration and workload files from GitHub repositories.

Automatic Execution

When a user asks to analyze a failed job, execute these steps automatically.

The skill's base path is provided when this skill is invoked. Run scripts relative to this folder.

Setup (run once per session if .venv doesn't exist)

# Create virtual environment and install dependencies
python3 -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install -q -r requirements.txt

Step 1-4a: Run the analysis CLI

# Option 1: By job ID (searches JOB_LOGS_DIR automatically)
.venv/bin/python scripts/cli.py analyze --job-id <JOB_ID>

# Option 2: By explicit path
.venv/bin/python scripts/cli.py analyze --job-log <path-to-job-log>

The CLI automatically runs Steps 1-4a:

  • Step 1: Parse job log → extract identifiers, failed tasks
  • Step 2: Query Splunk → fetch correlated OCP pod logs
  • Step 3: Build correlation timeline
  • Step 4a: Parse GitHub paths → ONLY generates candidate paths (does NOT fetch files)

Output files:

  • .analysis/<job-id>/step1_job_context.json
  • .analysis/<job-id>/step2_splunk_logs.json
  • .analysis/<job-id>/step3_correlation.json
  • .analysis/<job-id>/step4a_github_paths.json (candidate paths only - files NOT fetched yet)

Step 4b-4e: Analyze with AgnosticD/V context (You do this)

Input: Read the following files in order (optimized to avoid redundancy):

  1. REQUIRED: step1_job_context.json - Job metadata and failed task details
  2. REQUIRED: step4a_github_paths.json - Parsed GitHub paths and investigation targets
  3. REQUIRED: step3_correlation.json - Correlated timeline with relevant pod logs (DO NOT read step2 unless needed)
  4. CONDITIONAL: step2_splunk_logs.json - Only read if step3 indicates errors needing deeper investigation

Read the full file on GitHub · 391 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. 4d ago First seen · 391 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A b66025819a8a

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root_cause_analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository redhat-et/rhdp-rca-plugin (10 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 3,392 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 2026-08-31.

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