tutor: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/rca/SKILL.md

rca is a skill for Claude Code from rsml/tutor. It costs 11 tokens per session (558 once invoked), scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A method for finding the underlying cause of a failure by repeatedly asking why it happened, including the chain of events that followed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Investigate incidents, trace a failure cascade, and document a root-cause analysis using five whys.
Why use it?
It helps move beyond the visible error and identify the earlier decision or condition that allowed the failure to occur.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

This is rsml/tutor's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on tutor itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything tutor configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to rsml/tutor. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rsml/tutor/master/.claude/skills/rca/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rsml/tutor

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 558 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 unknown 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 $0.00011 $0.00558
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00223
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00056

Measured 2mo ago against content hash e9e32afaa2f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rca 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 2mo 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.

.claude/skills/rca/SKILL.md · 63 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2mo ago First seen · 63 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A e9e32afaa2f8

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rca is a skill published in the GitHub repository rsml/tutor (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 558 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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