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Root-cause analysis preset — drill from a surface symptom to deeper causes, assumptions, or principles by asking "why" ~5 times. A convenience preset of the more general n-whys skill (which takes an explicit depth n).
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Compile natural language, a loose composition or pipeline sketch, or an existing program.md into a readable Haskell-esque Sem program that composes this repository's semantic skills. Use when a user asks to express, design, revise, expand, or simplify a semantic program without running it.
Compile and execute natural-language requests, loose semantic pipelines, or existing program.md files as squishy Sem programs. Use when a user invokes $sem-run, asks to run a composition of semantic-algos skills, or wants every semantic function application isolated in a fresh subagent with standalone Markdown artifacts and a linked final result.
Transform a topic, claim, question, or situation into an original joke by leading the audience into one plausible frame and using a concise punchline to reveal a second compatible frame. Use when the user asks for a joke, one-liner, punchline, comedic reframing, roast, or short humorous treatment of an idea.
Transform a question, tension, memory, or belief into an original poem or song lyric whose meaning emerges through voice, imagery, sound, and recurrence rather than explanation. Use when the user asks for a poem, song lyrics, a lyrical treatment of an idea, or a literary form that embodies an emotional contradiction without resolving it.
Solve a problem by systematically importing solutions from other domains: abstract the problem's deep structure, find 3–5 domains that share that structure, study how each solved it, and translate the mechanisms back — with an explicit disanalogy check. Use for 'how do other fields handle this?' and stuck problems that feel like they must have been solved somewhere before.
Structure a choice between concrete options: elicit the real criteria and their weights, score each option honestly, run a sensitivity check on the weights, and separate what the numbers say from what the gut says. Use when choosing between 2–6 named alternatives (jobs, tools, vendors, apartments, strategies).
| name | five-whys |
| description | Root-cause analysis preset — drill from a surface symptom to deeper causes, assumptions, or principles by asking "why" ~5 times. A convenience preset of the more general n-whys skill (which takes an explicit depth n). |
| compatibility | Created for Zo Computer |
| metadata | {"author":"rob.zo.computer"} |
Use this skill when a question, problem, observation, bug, decision, emotional reaction, disagreement, or confusing situation would benefit from drilling down through layers of causality.
Relationship to n-whys: this is a preset of n-whys with a default depth of ~5 and a root-cause orientation. If the user wants a specific depth, or a deliberately deep chain, use n-whys n=<k> q=<question> instead.
The Five Whys method repeatedly asks "why?" to move from the obvious surface explanation toward deeper causes. The goal is not always exactly five steps; stop when the next "why" becomes speculative, circular, or no longer useful.
The chain need not be strictly causal. Depending on the topic it can be:
Use this concise structure unless the user asks otherwise:
## Surface issue
...
## Five Whys
1. Why? ...
- Because ...
2. Why? ...
- Because ...
3. Why? ...
- Because ...
4. Why? ...
- Because ...
5. Why? ...
- Because ...
## Likely root cause / deeper principle
...
## What to do next
- ...