build-failure-chain

SkillDev tools

Lets your agent build claude skill outputs that map causes to failure modes and effects in multi-level chains.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the build-failure-chain skill

About this skill

Build multi-level cause -> failure mode -> effect chains and identify cascades/shared roots.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine in skills/build-failure-chain/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Purpose

Build cause -> failure mode -> effect chains and identify cascades and shared roots.

Input contract

required: [functions_or_process, failure_modes, observed_effects]
optional: [causal_evidence, dependency_graph]
constraints: [each edge needs a mechanism or evidence note]

Procedure

  1. Place causes, failure modes, and effects in typed levels.
  2. Connect edges and record mechanism/evidence.
  3. Mark cascades, shared roots, and unresolved links.

Output contract

produces: [failure_chain, cascade_map, shared_root_report]
delta_fields: [findings, evidence_updates, uncertainties, decisions]

Quality gates

  • Every effect has a traceable upstream path or is marked unexplained.
  • Cycles and unsupported edges are flagged.

Failure and counterexamples

Do not collapse correlation into a causal chain without an evidence or mechanism note.

Provenance map

  • resolved: failure-chain-construction
  • resolved: failure-clustering

Signals

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Last commit
Sep 2026
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Catalog kind
skill
Key
build-failure-chain
Source
github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine