Investigate First
Diagnose ambiguous failures before editing. Use for unknown causes, intermittent behavior, performance regressions, or investigations needing evidence-ranked hypotheses.
Specification
- Skill ID
- juliusbrussee/caveman/investigate-first
- Publisher
- juliusbrussee
- Repository
- caveman
- Installs
- 1,363
- Files
- 2
- Synced
- Oct 23, 2026
How to use it
Open any RiverX project, open the Skills panel in the chat, and search for this identifier. The files are fetched from the source repository at install time.
juliusbrussee/caveman/investigate-firstInstalls these files- SKILL.md
- agents/openai.yaml
What this skill tells the agent
Investigate first
Gather evidence before changing product code.
- Separate observed symptom from inferred cause.
- Trace inputs, state transitions, ownership boundaries, and failure output.
- Rank hypotheses by evidence and cheap falsification value.
- Do not edit until one credible mechanism explains evidence.
- Stop exploration when evidence is sufficient to name cause or exact blocker.
Report cause and proof. Make no fix unless task authorizes implementation.
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Use this skill in a project
Open any RiverX project, search the Skills panel for juliusbrussee/caveman/investigate-first, and install it in one click.