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The\nLondon Protocol 2024 explicitly rejects RCA in favour of *systems analysis*\nfocused on contributory factors.\n\nThis plugin brings that discipline into everyday work with Claude: incident\npost-mortems, debugging sessions, project retrospectives, troubleshooting, and\ncasual problem-solving alike.\n\n## Installation\n\nFrom the [`yo61/claude-skills`](https://github.com/yo61/claude-skills)\nmarketplace:\n\n```text\n/plugin marketplace add yo61/claude-skills\n/plugin install contributory-factors@yo61-skills\n```\n\n## What's in the plugin\n\n```\ncontributory-factors/\n├── .claude-plugin/\n│   └── plugin.json\n└── skills/\n    └── contributory-factors/\n        ├── SKILL.md             # the skill itself\n        └── references/\n            └── background.md    # origins, theory, full citations\n```\n\n`SKILL.md` is loaded into Claude's context when the skill triggers.\n`references/background.md` is referenced from `SKILL.md` and loaded on demand.\n\n## Origins and credits\n\nThe framework adapted in this skill is the work of:\n\n- **Charles Vincent and colleagues** — the\n  [London Protocol](https://www.imperial.ac.uk/centre-for-health-policy/our-work/our-publications/london-protocol/)\n  (1998, 2004, 2024).\n- **Rebecca Lawton and the Yorkshire Quality and Safety Research Group** — the\n  Yorkshire Contributory Factors Framework (Lawton et al., 2012).\n- **James Reason** — the organisational accident model that underpins both.\n\nFull citations are in\n[`skills/contributory-factors/references/background.md`](skills/contributory-factors/references/background.md).\n\nThis plugin contains only the skill (a derived prompt-engineering artefact)\nand references those works by citation. The original papers and protocol\ndocuments are not redistributed here — read them at the publishers.\n\n## License\n\n[MIT](../../LICENSE)\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fyo61%2Fclaude-plugin-contributory-factors","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fyo61%2Fclaude-plugin-contributory-factors","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fyo61%2Fclaude-plugin-contributory-factors/lists"}