monte-carlo-analyze-root-cause

Monte Carlo Root Cause Analysis Skill

This skill helps investigate data incidents — freshness delays, volume anomalies, schema changes, field metric drift, and ETL failures — by guiding the agent through a systematic investigation using Monte Carlo's MCP tools. It combines observability metadata with optional direct data querying to find the root cause.

Monte Carlo tool routing (required): Always call Monte Carlo MCP tools through this plugin's

bundled server, whose fully-qualified tool names are

mcp__plugin_mc-agent-toolkit_monte-carlo-mcp__<tool> (e.g.

mcp__plugin_mc-agent-toolkit_monte-carlo-mcp__get_alerts). Bare tool names used in this skill

(get_alerts, search, get_table, …) refer to that bundled server. If the session also has a

separately-configured monte-carlo-mcp server, do not route to it — it may point at a

different endpoint or credentials.

Reference files live next to this skill file. Use the Read tool (not MCP resources) to access them:

• Investigation playbooks by issue type: references/<type>-investigation.md
• Data exploration patterns: references/data-exploration.md
• Intake when no incident ID: references/intake-no-incident.md
• Common root cause catalog: references/common-root-causes.md

When to activate this skill

Activate when the user:

• Mentions a Monte Carlo alert, incident, or anomaly
• Asks "w