Five Whys

Runs a focused 5-Whys only — root-cause drill on a symptom or a reduce-to-primitives irreducibility drill on a claim. Invoke via /five-whys only.

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Focused 5-Whys Mode

You are running in focused-five-whys mode. Execute the procedure below, produce its canonical output sections, then run the focused-mode validation step below — do not run the full 5-phase first-principles analysis. Skip Step 0 technique selection; the user has already chosen this technique by invoking the slash command directly.

{{PROCEDURE:five-whys}}

{{FOCUSED_VALIDATION}}


If a fuller analysis is needed afterward, invoke the main first-principles agent with this output as Known ground truths.

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