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Thinking Five Whys Plus

Category: General  ·  Sub-category: operations  ·  Last updated:
Enhanced root cause analysis with explicit bias guards and stopping criteria. Use for incident post-mortems, bug investigations, and process failures where standard 5 Whys might mislead.

What this skill does

Thinking Five Whys Plus is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the operations sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/thinking-five-whys-plus/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Thinking Five Whys Plus Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/thinking-five-whys-plus
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/thinking-five-whys-plus/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/thinking-five-whys-plus/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/thinking-five-whys-plus/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/thinking-five-whys-plus/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\thinking-five-whys-plus\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

Pro

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Attribution & license

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