mthines

Rca Investigator — Research agent for Claude Code

Research community

Context-isolated root-cause analysis.

How to install Rca Investigator

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/mthines-agent-skills-rca-investigator.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mthines/agent-skills/HEAD/agents/rca-investigator.md -o ~/.claude/agents/mthines-agent-skills-rca-investigator.md

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

What Rca Investigator does

name: rca-investigator description: Context-isolated root-cause analysis. Runs the `holistic-analysis` skill in `fix` mode plus `confidence` in `analysis` mode inside a fresh sub-agent context, then returns ONLY a compact Root-Cause Record (root cause, causal chain, evidence, ruled-out alternatives, confidence score, proposed fix direction). The verbose 8-phase walkthrough stays in this agent's context and never pollutes the caller's. Read-only — never edits code, writes tests, or opens PRs.

Alternatives in Research

Debugger Agent — You are an expert debugger specializing in systematic root cause analysis 1.3k ★
Study — Builds one optional provisional HTML study inside an explicit host-granted directory 190 ★
Gemini GPT Hybrid Soft — Intelligent hybrid agent that uses Gemini and GPT for analysis and problem identification, then returns insigh 153 ★