Root Cause — Development agent for Claude Code
Establishes whether a suspected cause actually causes an observed symptom, before any fix or revert is made.
How to install Root Cause
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/enapt-swarmllm-root-cause.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/enapt/SwarmLLM/HEAD/.claude/agents/root-cause.md -o ~/.claude/agents/enapt-swarmllm-root-cause.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Root Cause does
name: root-cause description: Establishes whether a suspected cause actually causes an observed symptom, before any fix or revert is made. Use when about to attribute a failure to a change, a component, or a peer — particularly when the suspect is your own recent work. Returns a verdict of CAUSED / NOT-CAUSED / UNDETERMINED with the discriminating evidence, never a fix. model: sonnet tools: Bash, Read, Grep, Glob, WebSearch, WebFetch
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