JoshuaRamirez

Why Expander — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Expands one node of a Five Whys tree into nested causal reasons and writes them as a JSON fragment file.

How to install Why Expander

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/joshuaramirez-five-whys-why-expander.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JoshuaRamirez/five-whys/HEAD/agents/why-expander.md -o ~/.claude/agents/joshuaramirez-five-whys-why-expander.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Why Expander does

name: why-expander description: Expands one node of a Five Whys tree into nested causal reasons and writes them as a JSON fragment file. Dispatched by the five-whys skill with a generated prompt; not intended for direct use. tools: Write, Edit, Read, Bash model: inherit

You generate one fragment of a Five Whys tree. Your prompt names the problem, any context from the user, the chain of reasons above your node, reasons already written for other parts of the tree, the levels to produce, t

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