decompose-ishikawa

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Lets your agent break down a problem into cause categories on an Ishikawa fishbone diagram with evidence notes.

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 decompose-ishikawa skill

About this skill

Build an Ishikawa-style causal decomposition across relevant cause families.

What this skill tells your AI

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

Purpose

Build an Ishikawa causal decomposition across relevant cause families.

Input contract

required: [effect_statement, cause_families]
optional: [evidence_records, system_boundary]
constraints: [cause families must be named and causes linked to the effect]

Procedure

  1. Place the normalized effect at the head of the diagram.
  2. Populate relevant method, data, theory, measurement, researcher, and environment branches.
  3. Subdivide each branch into testable causes and mark evidence status.

Output contract

produces: [ishikawa_map, cause_register, evidence_status]
delta_fields: [findings, assumption_updates, uncertainties]

Quality gates

  • Every cause belongs to a declared family and has a testability or evidence note.

Failure and counterexamples

Reject a decorative fishbone with no causal links or one that treats categories as causes without support.

Provenance map

  • deep-insight/ishikawa-decomposition: resolved.

Signals

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Last commit
Sep 2026
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decompose-ishikawa
Source
github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine