investigate - Deep Issue Investigation with Root Cause Analysis
Thorough investigation of bugs, performance issues, or unexpected behavior with root cause analysis and recommendations
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Updated: 2026-05-28Capabilities
Typical Inputs
Typical Outputs
What this skill does
- analyze issue description
- form hypotheses
- gather error messages
- collect stack traces
- search logs
- review git history
- read source files
- analyze code paths
- trace call chains
- check dependencies
- examine integration points
- grep log files
- analyze error patterns
- run existing tests
- write exploratory tests
- reproduce issues
- check test coverage
- investigate database state
- verify third-party services
- compare configurations
Inputs
- issue description
- error message
- log files
- source code
- git history
- CI artifacts
- test files
- configuration files
- environment variables
- database schema
- third-party service status
Outputs
- investigation report
- root cause analysis
- evidence findings
- hypothesis verdicts
- recommendations
- prevention plan
- reproduction test
- passing test suite
Requirements
- git repository access
- log file access
- codebase read access
- test execution environment