Debug Root Cause Analysis includes worked examples; 13 code blocks for direct copy-paste. At roughly 1,690 words the SKILL.md is on the longer end of the catalog distribution.
Debug Root Cause Analysis sits in the Engineering category under the engineering-misc sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.
These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.
Debug Root Cause Analysis is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the engineering-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/debug-root-cause-analysis/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when fixing a bug or analyzing a stack trace. Enforces systematic debugging methodology to prevent shotgun debugging and verify fixes.
The Debug Root Cause Analysis Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 115,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/debug-root-cause-analysis curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/debug-root-cause-analysis/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/debug-root-cause-analysis/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/debug-root-cause-analysis/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/debug-root-cause-analysis/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\debug-root-cause-analysis\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/debug-root-cause-analysis/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Debug Root Cause Analysis is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Engineering category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{debug-root-cause-analysis-2026,
author = {Claude Code Learning Flywheel Team},
title = {Debug Root Cause Analysis [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/debug-root-cause-analysis/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-06-13 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
No risk patterns were found in any of the ten OWASP-aligned categories. How grading works ›
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