Five whys
Skill chrisdavidson/first-principles-skill/shared/skills/five-whys
Runs a focused 5-Whys only — root-cause drill on a symptom or a reduce-to-primitives irreducibility drill on a claim. Invoke via /five-whys only.From its SKILL.md
npx -y skills add chrisdavidson/first-principles-skill --skill five-whysAssembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.
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Focused 5-Whys Mode
You are running in focused-five-whys mode. Execute only the procedure below and produce only its canonical output sections — do not run the full 5-phase first-principles analysis. Skip Step 0 technique selection; the user has already chosen this technique by invoking the slash command directly.
{{PROCEDURE:five-whys}}
If a fuller analysis is needed afterward, invoke the main first-principles
agent with this output as Known ground truths.
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Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.