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Five — Development skill for Claude Code

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Apply the Five Whys root cause analysis technique to investigate an issue.

How to install Five

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/hahaknight-claude-code-everything-you-need-to-know-five.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Hahaknight/Claude-Code-Everything-You-Need-to-Know/HEAD/.claude/commands/five.md -o ~/.claude/commands/hahaknight-claude-code-everything-you-need-to-know-five.md

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

What Five does

name: five description: Apply the Five Whys root cause analysis technique to investigate an issue

Five Whys Analysis

Apply the Five Whys root cause analysis technique to investigate issues.

Description

This command implements the Five Whys problem-solving methodology, iteratively asking "why" to drill down from symptoms to root causes. It helps identify the fundamental reason behind a problem rather than just addressing surface-level symptoms.

Usage

`five [issue_description]`

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