Analyze Data Quality
1. Skill
Assess tables and datasets before analysis or publication
Assess whether a dataset is trustworthy enough for analysis, modeling,
dashboards, experiments, or downstream pipelines. Start with the intended use and grain, run the highest-value checks for the data shape, and report concrete evidence, analytical risk, likely causes, and the smallest useful remediation or automated test.
Overall Instructions
Before choosing or changing the deliverable, apply presentation routing. For consequential missing details, use task intake. Before quantitative claims, apply analysis quality; resolve company-specific meaning through metric definitions before choosing the controlling source.
Apply the shared Data instructions and the shared guidance referenced below. Use instructions already loaded for this task, including by the index or another skill; read only what is missing.
Dependencies
Before selecting evidence, apply source selection and dependency resolution to the categories below.
Data Warehouse: Raw records, schemas, and reference tables for grain, completeness, freshness, and reconciliation checks.
Business Intelligence: Published metric definitions and reporting outputs to compare with their underlying data.
Product Analytics: Event schemas, instrumentation, and behavioral measures to inspect for collection or counting gaps.
Knowledge & Files: Supplied datasets, data contracts, and quality expectations.
Developer Tools: Transformation code, lineage, pipeline runs, and incidents that explain data defects.
Related Skills
Use $design-kpis when the work is to define or redesign a KPI framework, metric definition, guardrail, or target rather than checking whether existing data is trustworthy.
Use $validate-data when the user requests a correctness audit of an existing analysis, chart, report, dashboard, or recommendation. This skill investigates the underlying data.
Scoped companion checks
When another analysis or validation workflow invokes this skill for a specific risk, use its source, grain, quality question, affected claims and existing evidence. Select only the profile and checks needed to resolve that risk; reuse inspected schemas, queries and notebooks. Return findings, evidence, severity/confidence, remediation and gaps to the owning workflow. Do not restart intake, require a new notebook, launch recursive validation, produce another assessment report or originate an automation offer for a nested check. Standalone dataset-quality requests retain the full relevant workflow below.
1. Skill Configuration
Suggest Automations
This skill may originate suggest_automation under the shared automation offer contract only after a completed quality assessment has been delivered, when the same table, grain, stable checks or thresholds, and evidence output will likely recur.
Eligible: a weekly freshness, key, null, completeness, or schema-health review with stable expectations.
Ineligible: a one-time schema incident, exploratory profile, unstable threshold, or assessment still missing the source, grain, or quality rule.
Example: after completing Check the weekly orders table for freshness, key, and completeness regressions, say I can make this data-quality review repeatable with the same checks. Then emit the shared generic Make this repeatable launcher.
Workflow
Clarify the quality question and operating context.
Establish what the dataset represents, the intended unit of analysis, the downstream use, whether the user cares about raw ingestion quality,
transformed-model quality, or both, and the comparison baseline such as prior weeks, prior schema, or a trusted reference table. Identify expected grain,
primary keys or candidate keys, important date columns, timezone assumptions,
domain rules, allowed values, and business thresholds. If context is missing,
infer cautiously and label assumptions.
Choose an inspectable analysis path.
Retain exact checks under the shared analysis-record policy. For queryable tables, use ~~structured_data to confirm schema, grain, sample rows, and query rules through the relevant source connector before heavier checks. Use ~~operations_logs for freshness and lineage when those checks matter.
Build a compact profile.
Start with row count, column count, column names and types, candidate keys,
duplicate rates on likely identifiers, min/max timestamps for relevant date columns, null rates, distinct counts for likely categorical columns, and basic numeric summaries for measure columns. Confirm grain before interpreting anomalies; many apparent quality problems are mixed-grain data,
partial backfills, late-arriving data, or duplicated joins.
Run core quality checks.
Select checks that match the dataset and task. Default to the most relevant checks across completeness, uniqueness, validity, consistency, integrity,
timeliness, volume, and shape. Compare rates, not just counts, and segment by time, source, country, platform, model version, or other key dimensions when that helps distinguish real issues from expected variation.
Run shape-specific checks.
Adapt the checks to the data shape:
Event data: duplicate event IDs, future event timestamps, session or user
coverage gaps, and abrupt event-mix changes after releases.
Dimension tables: non-unique business keys, orphan surrogate keys, status
changes without corresponding timestamps, and unexpected churn in reference
values.
Fact tables: mixed grain, impossible measures such as negative revenue or
quantity, join blowups to dimensions, and late-arriving or partially loaded
partitions.
ML feature or scoring tables: leakage from post-outcome fields, feature
sparsity spikes, range shifts after model or feature-store changes, and
class-label drift.
Experiment data: duplicate assignments, variant imbalance beyond
expectation, exposure without assignment, and events before assignment
timestamp.
Run temporal and distribution checks when history exists.
Prioritize temporal diagnostics when the user mentions "after X date",
"suddenly", "recently", or "only started appearing". Check first-seen dates,
last-seen dates, daily or weekly null-rate trends, duplicate-rate trends, row count trends, category-share shifts, distribution drift, and change points around launches, migrations, incidents, model changes, or backfills.
Investigate analytical risks and likely causes.
Tie each issue to the downstream risk: broken trusted analysis, biased decisions, broken joins, stale dashboards, incorrect experiments, leakage,
unreliable model features, or misleading segments. When possible, identify whether the issue is isolated to a source, segment, partition, time window,
release, migration, backfill, or upstream pipeline change.
Recommend fixes or automated tests.
Recommend the smallest set of follow-up fixes, monitoring, or automated tests that would materially reduce risk. Recommend an automated data test only when the rule is stable and worth maintaining. If the completed assessment itself also meets Suggest Automations, emit that launcher only after the findings are delivered; do not confuse it with the automated-test recommendation. Include or save the notebook/query path when code produced the findings.
Standards
Core Checks
Completeness: null rate by column; null rate by partition, segment, and time bucket; unexpected empty strings or sentinel values; required-column population rate.
Uniqueness: exact duplicate rows, duplicate primary keys, duplicate composite keys, and proportion unique for semi-unique fields such as emails or device IDs.
Validity: type conformance after casting; format checks for IDs, emails, URLs,
enums, country codes, and timestamps; range checks for measures, percentages,
counts, and dates; allowed-values checks for controlled vocabularies.
Consistency: cross-field rule checks, units or currency consistency, status and timestamp alignment, and agreement between duplicated fields from different sources.
Integrity: parent-child key coverage, orphan records, unexpected many-to-many joins, and broken slowly changing dimension joins.
Timeliness: freshness lag from source event time to load time, freshness lag from load time to report time, missing recent partitions, and unexplained historical rewrites or backfills.
Volume and shape: row-count drift, distinct-count drift, distribution drift,
share-of-total drift for major categories, and new or disappeared categories.
Specific Check Guidance
Duplicates and keys: check exact duplicates, primary key duplicates, composite key duplicates at the intended grain, and near-duplicates caused by whitespace,
casing, formatting, or late updates. Report count, share of affected rows,
duplicated keys, and whether duplication is isolated to a time range, source,
or segment.
Missingness: distinguish acceptable sparsity from broken completeness. Check null rates over time, newly null columns after schema or pipeline changes, and sentinel values such as '', 'unknown', 'n/a', 0, or -1.
Domain validity: check malformed identifiers, country codes, timestamps,
impossible values, values outside allowed sets, and cross-field contradictions such as is_cancelled = false with a non-null cancelled_at.
Join coverage: when multiple datasets are involved, check foreign keys that do not match a parent table, unexpected one-to-many expansion, coverage loss when joining to dimensions or experiments, and row counts before and after joins.
Freshness and schema drift: check row-count changes against recent history,
lag on important date columns, added/removed/retyped columns, and shifts in sparsity or cardinality that suggest upstream changes.
Outliers and distribution shifts: use robust methods such as quantiles, MAD,
or IQR before defaulting to z-scores. Check sudden changes in mean, median,
variance, zero rate, category share, and long-tail behavior.
Leakage, backfill, and time travel: check features populated before they should exist, future-dated records, late-arriving data causing unstable recent partitions, and backfills that change historical counts without annotation.
Severity
Critical: breaks trusted analysis, core joins, production dashboards, or key decisions, such as duplicated grain, missing primary keys, or stale production data.
High: materially biases downstream decisions, such as large null spikes,
category drift in a core dimension, invalid business-rule values, leakage, or severe join coverage loss.
Medium: localized or explainable issues that still need documentation,
monitoring, or owner follow-up.
Low: cosmetic inconsistencies, expected sparsity, or known edge cases that do not materially affect current use.
Do not dump raw profiling output without interpretation. Tie each finding to an analytical risk and likely impact.
Automated Test Guidance
Good candidates for automation: primary key uniqueness, not-null checks on required columns, accepted values for stable enums, referential integrity,
freshness thresholds, and seasonality-aware row-count or volume bounds.
Use caution with hard-coded distribution thresholds on volatile product metrics, strict uniqueness in messy entity-resolution use cases, and recent partitions when late-arriving data is normal.
Suggest automated tests only when the expected rule is stable, important, and maintainable.
Output Standards
Use visualize-data when a quantitative pattern calls for a chart or consequential evidence processing warrants Sources, even without an explicit component request. Choose these before composing a prose/table answer; simple lookups, calculations and pure file handoffs need no delivery skill.
Return stakeholder-facing findings using the selected presentation. The structure below defines the assessment content.
Structure the response with:
dataset and grain summary
checks performed
findings
temporal or trend anomalies
likely causes and impacted use cases
recommended fixes or automated tests
assumptions and open questions
For each finding, include:
what failed
evidence: counts, rates, segments, and dates
why it matters
severity and confidence level
likely cause when known
suggested remediation or automated test
When code was used, include or save a notebook containing the key SQL and Python checks and make the notebook path easy to find.
Defaults
Prefer small, high-signal tables over exhaustive dumps.
Compare rates, not just counts.
Break checks out by time and key segments whenever possible.
Normalize strings before judging duplicates or distinct-count spikes.
Treat recent partitions carefully when data arrives late.
Call out when an anomaly could be caused by a legitimate product launch,
experiment, migration, incident, model change, or backfill.
Preserve inspectable evidence: SQL, query links, notebook paths, source paths,
sample rows, chart outputs, and calculation notes.
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2. skill
Answers Follow up
Skill
Use when one to three optional next tasks would help the user get started or continue from an answer, and the current host supports follow-up prompt buttons.
Apply the shared Data instructions and the shared guidance referenced below. Use instructions already loaded for this task, including by the index or another skill; read only what is missing.
follow_up_pill_group
Present one to three useful next tasks as native prompt buttons. Selecting
a button sends its complete query as a new user turn.
Use this widget only when the current host advertises
follow_up_pill_group through its available widget directory or explicit
runtime instructions. A bundled copy of this skill does not establish
runtime support. If support is unavailable or unknown, use another native
follow-up format explicitly supported by the host, or offer the next tasks
briefly in prose. Do not emit an unsupported GenUI reference.
Choose distinct, concrete tasks that fit the user's current context. Use
a short visible label, a unique stable id, and a self-contained query
preserving the relevant goal, artifact, and constraints. Omit optional
icons and source metadata unless their supported values are known.
Starter tasks can help when the user has not chosen a workflow. After an
answer, offer follow-ups only when they add value; do not append buttons
mechanically. Gather missing preferences or required task details through
the host's structured-input component instead of these suggestions.
Present the buttons and finish the turn. Do not execute a suggested task
until the user selects it or asks for it. Selection starts a user request;
it does not bypass any approval required for the requested action.
Invocation:
// Insert directly:
genui{"follow_up_pill_group": {"actions": {...}}}
// This widget is not eligible for UUID Mode.
Example:
genui{"follow_up_pill_group":{"actions":[{"id":"make_checklist","label":"Make a checklist","query":"Turn the project plan above into a prioritized checklist."},{"id":"compare_options","label":"Compare the options","query":"Compare the options in the project plan above by cost and effort."}]}}
Args schema:
// FollowUpSuggestionGroupData
{
// Actions
//
// One to three ordered follow-up suggestions.
// minItems: 1, maxItems: 3
actions: Array<
// FollowUpSuggestionAction
{
// Id
//
// Stable action identifier used for analytics.
id: string, // minLength: 1, maxLength: 64
// Label
//
// Visible action label.
label: string, // minLength: 1, maxLength: 120
// Query
//
// Question sent as a new user turn when selected.
query: string, // minLength: 1, maxLength: 2000
// Icon
//
// Optional leading DIL icon name. Used by the pill presentation.
// default: null
icon?:
| string // minLength: 1, maxLength: 64
| null
,
// Source
//
// Optional stable source identifier attached to the new user turn.
// default: null
source?:
| string // minLength: 1, maxLength: 128
| null
,
}
>,
}
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3. skill
Build Dashboard
Skill
Create source-backed dashboards for monitoring performance, exploring drivers, and acting on metrics.
Build a dashboard when requested. Preserve the supplied definitions, selected template and destination. The opening view should answer the question before a filter changes.
For dashboard tasks, build-dashboard takes precedence over general website, Sites, GenUI, and ad hoc HTML/JavaScript authoring guidance for dashboard construction, components, and validation.
For a new full HTML or hosted Data dashboard, you must initialize the Data dashboard starter and use its public components and data bindings. Synthetic data, sample requests, custom styling, and a Sites destination do not change this requirement. Customize the layout within the generated app.
When hosting on Sites, build and verify the Data app, then publish that same artifact through Data's publication workflow. Sites handles hosting; its general website starter must not replace the Data dashboard implementation.
For chat-only samples, follow the inline path using Data's chart components.
For a new dashboard in Chat without a live dashboard preview, start with the headline metrics and a representative chart from the reviewed data using inline GenUI. Offer to build the full interactive dashboard as a private Site. If hosting was already requested, proceed with it. Save HTML to the Space library or offer a download only when requested. In Work web, deliver the hosted Site by default.
Create a private, editable measurement surface that answers the user's question through evidence and useful interactions.
Overall Instructions
Follow the shared Data instructions throughout this workflow.
Follow the Data App Contract for reviewed data, privacy, runtime, and delivery. If the skill reader cannot open this reference, read the file from the installed plugin directory, resolving the path relative to this skill.
Dependencies
Apply the shared dependency resolution policy to the categories below.
Data Warehouse: Authoritative metrics, historical comparisons, cohorts, and granular records.
Business Intelligence: Governed dashboards, reporting views, and semantic definitions.
Product Analytics: Events, funnels, retention, experiments, and behavioral segments.
Knowledge & Files: Supplied datasets, KPI definitions, targets, and business context.
Internal Messaging: Operational events and stakeholder explanations that help interpret changes and locate original evidence.
Workflow guidance
For requests to set up or change a recurring refresh schedule for an existing dashboard, read and follow $schedule-refresh-jobs before entering the authoring workflow. One-time refreshes and execution of an existing scheduled refresh stay in this skill; they do not create another job.
This skill owns dashboard planning, hierarchy, copy, and reference selection. Preserve existing dashboards and user-authored layouts when revising them.
Apply the relevant analysis quality criteria and dashboard quality criteria while planning, authoring, and verifying the requested changes. Reuse completed checks within this workflow; a separate requested correctness audit belongs to $validate-data.
In local desktop tasks, open the localhost preview at the first useful build and reuse it for revisions.
Refresh an existing dashboard
When the user sends a refresh prompt in ChatGPT web or Codex, complete the refresh without asking for consent again after preparing the data. For a published dashboard, follow Refresh a published dashboard or report to read its snapshot, rerun saved requests, and redeploy the same Site. For a local dashboard, follow the data lifecycle.
Ask only for information or access needed to proceed, or approval for changes beyond the dashboard's existing query or data scope. Preserve its layout, filters, and access; honor required tool approvals. Report completion only after verifying the update; otherwise explain the blocker and any partial changes.
Plan the evidence and hierarchy
Identify the audience, decision or action, question, population, period, comparison basis, and next useful investigation; establish the operating cadence for recurring use. The default view should support that job before interaction. Ask only for missing user-owned facts that materially change the result; otherwise choose reversible defaults. Chart types, counts, and other implementation choices belong to this skill.
Before coding, map the user's distinct questions to the available evidence: current level and meaningful change, trajectory, relevant segment or cohort differences, population size and denominators, and the next useful investigation. Account for every material question, recurring view, named requirement, and selected dimension with a supported view, deliberate exclusion, or explicit blocker. Include the dimensions together when their relationship matters. Narrow this coverage for a narrow question; a short prompt does not imply a shallow dashboard. Keep a brief private plan of the intended views, metric roles, prominence, and section order, revising it as evidence develops; no fixed section sequence or dashboard prose is required.
Reserve KPI cards for the most important topline metrics. Use the clearest form for drivers, context, diagnostics, composition, exceptions, and detail; source convenience must not determine prominence. Use visuals for aggregate comparisons, change, composition, and relationships. Use tables for identifying records, exact multi-attribute inspection, and operational action. A useful queue may lead the page; a table of totals already shown in charts usually belongs in source inspection or detail. Combine duplicate views, not distinct analytical questions. Honor explicit table requests; there is no chart quota.
Discover useful breakdowns from the brief, authoritative context, and verified source schemas. Select dimensions, baselines, benchmarks, and targets for their interpretive purpose and semantic compatibility with the measure, not a fixed business-specific checklist. Show needed comparisons together, using consistent units, order, encodings, and magnitude scales; disclose justified scale changes. Filters alone cannot substitute. Use meaningful baselines and comparable reviewed history. Include KPIs or sparklines only when they add a useful summary.
Establish source-backed measurements
Use the named source or authoritative governed evidence. Follow the shared source guidance when gathering evidence and the Data App Contract's provenance schema when constructing the snapshot. Define measures, populations, denominators, comparisons, assumptions, and lineage at the affected component. Preserve source classification and limitations in provenance; never present supplied fictional data as real observations.
Reconcile totals and weighted rates at the correct grain. Preserve nulls, incomplete coverage, cohort maturity, and distinctions between actuals, targets, and scenarios. Correlation and accounting decomposition are not causal proof. Fetch extra evidence only to answer a question, never to fill template slots. Omit unsupported measurements, explicitly identifying unavailable required evidence where it affects interpretation; never silently replace, drop, or redefine requested content. If no useful dashboard is possible, ask for the missing source.
For workbook inputs, use spreadsheet tools for ingestion and calculations. Their workbook-presentation advice does not govern this HTML dashboard. Use a spreadsheet or BI-native destination only when requested.
Start from appropriate working code
For a new dashboard, choose a useful starting composition from the golden catalog by analytical task: comparing segments, monitoring change, investigating exceptions, or exploring an entity. The subject and data grain need not match to learn from its layout. Read the closest reference's DashboardContent.jsx and relevant CSS, following local composition imports where they own the layout. Prefer adapting its working code when it provides useful groupings or interactions, even if only part of the page fits:
node output_formats/html/scripts/prepare-data-app.mjs --surface dashboard --from-reference REFERENCE_ID --output /absolute/new-project --snapshot /absolute/reviewed.json
Run from the plugin root or use the absolute helper path. Read the selected reference's brief and data contract before binding your evidence. The shared preparer sets the dashboard surface and a fresh stable artifact ID, and copies working code with your reviewed snapshot. It never loads the reference's fixture on this path. Remove unsupported measurements, sample annotations, and fallback values. Golden approval applies to design, not fictional evidence; use draft examples only for explicit development/review.
The starting golden is scaffolding, not the finished outline. Keep useful compositions, but reorder, resize, combine, replace, or add sections and change navigation when the question calls for it. Borrow complementary groupings or interactions from other goldens; read only the additional implementation and CSS needed, not the whole catalog. Integrate borrowed parts into one coherent page with consistent controls and spacing. There is no one-reference limit or requirement to preserve the starting dashboard's tabs, chart types, or block count.
Create an original composition when existing patterns do not serve the analysis. A custom layout can still use shared cards, charts, controls, and tables; it does not require inventing new components. Do not keep a section merely because it was copied, fill unsupported slots, or add variety without analytical purpose.
Omit --from-reference to use the populated base when no golden provides a useful starting composition. Both modes return a compact golden index for further borrowing. Preserve sparse answers and user-requested custom layouts. Use --blank only when the user requests starting from scratch; a small dataset or lack of a matching reference does not require an empty project.
The helper refuses existing destinations. Revise existing apps in place. Read the copied AGENTS.md for boundaries and author React/CSS in src/content/. Before consulting component APIs, follow the contract's read-only reference lookup and read only needed topics from the returned documentation.entryPoint; this also resolves current bindings for older apps. Reuse public cards, charts, controls, tables, and source actions before creating a custom component. Wrap custom evidence in DataComponent with stable identities and reviewed rows.
Compose the page and interactions
Put useful evidence under the shell title and scoped controls. Give each section a distinct job and short descriptive label; order and prominence should follow the audience's review path. Use Section/`SectionHeader` and the copied AGENTS.md geometry defaults. Keep related views visible together, size them to their evidence, avoid redundant nested frames, and preserve requested custom layouts.
Use canvas for independent movable/resizable blocks, freeform for authored grids or sidebars, and a composite block for tightly linked views. These mechanisms do not prescribe analytical structure. Keep the intended Edit-mode affordances and saved user placement; consult the sortable layout API for details.
Place controls at their actual page, tab, section, or chart scope, grouped in the shared header slot. Intersect local filters with original reviewed rows and apply the same population to visuals, sources, copying, and export. “All” removes that dimension’s restriction; do not look for a literal aggregate row unless the source supplies one. Preserve metric grain: sum additive measures only, recompute rates from their numerators and denominators, and do not average subgroup medians or sum overlapping distinct counts. Keep identity-bearing filters out of URLs. A tab needs a distinct analytical or operational job; a supporting records table belongs with its chart, in expandable detail or source inspection, not in a tab inherited from a reference.
A filter changes the current view; a drill-down reveals additional records or explanation and offers a clear return. Keep comparisons needed for the main question visible together; inspecting one entity at a time does not replace comparing entities or their histories. Put secondary exploration on the relevant chart mark or row; avoid repeated card-header buttons that just select an entity and open its records. Do not label filter presets as investigations or duplicate an existing selector with a button. Add scenarios only when useful and supported, with assumptions, modeled outputs, and reset separate from observed data.
Copy and presentation
Use one shell title and concise, sentence-case measurement labels. Chart titles stay descriptive unless a finding-led title is requested. Omit redundant headings and visible heroes; retain an accessible h1. Keep filter values and index baselines in controls or info descriptions. Do not invent branding, eyebrows, introductions, instruction subtitles, or evaluation/privacy prose. Preserve user-authored titles and requested commentary. Sparse factual callouts must remain true for the displayed population and add interpretation, a useful comparison, or a supported implication beyond reading off nearby chart values; omit redundant insight cards. Source external events and avoid unsupported causal stories. Omit leaderboards when all displayed values are equal and the ranking adds no useful distinction. If relevant, summarize the shared value once.
Keep sample-data classification truthful in source metadata; add a visible disclosure only when requested. Use the same name for a derived metric in titles, legends, tooltips, and prose. Explain an unfamiliar derived metric beside its first use in plain language, including the calculation or adjustment and what it means; source inspection alone is insufficient. Place each other definition or caveat once, in its relevant label, tooltip, or source sidebar. Material uncertainty belongs visibly with estimates, including interval meaning and level where defined. Keep supporting methods in source inspection and preserve uncertainty through filtering and export. Use accurate measurement labels rather than contradictory explanatory prose.
Keep dates human-readable and units/signs consistent. Round displayed numbers to useful precision, including summary tables; use compact units for large totals while preserving exact reviewed values in sources and exports. Keep sparkline periods consistent with their metric and comparison, or state a justified different period in the associated description. Omit redundant axis titles, not informative ticks or units. Use semantic delta color according to the objective while keeping ambiguous changes neutral; absolute trends retain their series colors. Use the comparison formatting API rather than inventing formatting. Keep values legible, labels contained, controls wrapping, and wide record tables scrolling within their container.
Build, inspect, and deliver
Build with the copied project's AGENTS.md, then follow the contract's preview and verification guidance. Show a useful first view promptly and complete the requested scope in that same artifact.
During the contract's bounded rendered review, check the opening hierarchy, distinct value of each view, redundant copy/tables, and alignment. Confirm the default view makes priorities and useful investigations apparent, with action or follow-up detail when the use case calls for it. Fix changed content and inspect again; report which checks actually ran.
Reconcile the final artifact with the request and private plan: account for additions, omissions, and changes to metric roles, prominence, comparisons, breakdowns, sections, and order. Update the plan with reasons for deliberate revisions and disclose changes to requested scope; leave no unexplained drift or silently missing requirement. Verify calculations, definitions, source/filter/export scope, honest time-series continuity, and reconciliation across cards, charts, and tables. Retained source rows alone do not establish that the dashboard answers a question; check that its needed comparison is available in the authored views.
Follow the shared delivery policy and state any remaining gaps. For a requested sharing summary, use share-artifact-summary.
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4. skill
Build Report
Skill
Turn reviewed evidence into polished analytical reports
Use this skill when the user requests a report or presentation routing selects a report. Explicit output choices take precedence. With no explicit format, three or more independent analytical questions need an inline summary plus a report; otherwise answer inline. Deliver the selected report the reader can open, with a short answer and a link in chat. Keep a report's evidence and charts in the report unless the chat answer also needs its own visual.
Read together
Choose the destination once: explicit request first, then the selected template's format, then the existing artifact's format and identity. A selected presentation template produces a presentation. For a new report with no selected format, default to HTML and go straight to the report starter. Use the Page report workflow when a Page is selected.
For a standalone HTML or hosted HTML report, continue directly with the HTML report workflow. That workflow owns the report's writing, composition, evidence, preparation and verification. Stop reading this skill here for HTML; the report principles and rendering instructions below apply to the other destinations.
Open the applicable files together, reusing any already read:
For this request Read in the same batch
Report from reviewed files or query results Analysis quality, Data writing, and one execution guide: HTML report or Page report, or the explicitly requested format below.
Investigate a change or its cause Add investigative reports. If analysis remains to be done, use the appropriate analytical skill, such as metric diagnostics.
Selected template or existing report Include the selected template or current artifact source and template contract.
Need to choose or implement a chart Use Visualize Data, the chosen chart family, and the surface binding: React report chart, native Page chart, or the requested export format.
For missing evidence use source selection; for a disputed company metric use metric definitions. A complete supplied packet needs neither discovery pass. Consult task intake only when missing information would materially change the work. Use the destination policy for a conflict, conversion or unavailable explicit format.
Report content
Identify the reader's question, decision, period, baseline and population from the request and evidence. Keep the selected sample's identity and definitions; label synthetic data. Work from reviewed results, preserving source identity and calculation. When revising, reuse the existing evidence and analysis unless the requested change calls them into question.
Report principles
Executive Summary. For a report with several findings, comparisons or visuals, put a visible Executive Summary immediately after the title and compact byline. It should stand on its own: answer the reader's question directly, state why it matters, and connect the strongest findings to their decisive numbers or comparisons and implications. Usually use 2–4 concise takeaways or short paragraphs, starting with the main finding or decision. Include a recommendation when useful and qualify a claim where uncertainty changes the answer. These are connected prose, not separate mandatory Question, Answer, Recommendation, Data and Caveats labels or a quota. Do not duplicate the summary in a subtitle, unlabeled lede, KPI strip or nearby restatement; the body expands the story with evidence. A short, one-answer report can open more briefly. An explicit template controls its headings, order, prose or list format, and styling; apply the default opening only when the template leaves it unspecified. See the synthetic worked example.
Title and findings. Name the concrete subject or strongest supported finding, such as the API launch being assessed. Preserve a requested title. If the reader's question is implicit, put it in a short opening sentence or subtitle before the summary. Keep the preparation date and known author in a compact byline; put the evidence period and cutoff with the findings or Sources. Use headings that state what the evidence supports. Develop the findings, with recommendations and caveats where they help the reader; include only sections that contribute to the question. Lead with concise methodological context only when the method itself is the question or a methodological caveat changes the answer. Otherwise keep dense methodology, source, freshness, provenance and reproducibility details in Sources, a later methods section or progressive disclosure.
Comparison and interpretation. Check metric definitions, units, periods, grain, counts and denominators. Pool counts before computing rates. Reconcile group contributions with the overall change; distinguish changes within groups from changes in their mix. For a funnel, follow the same eligible cohort through its ordered stages and identify the transition that changed most. For a why question, test plausible explanations with numbers; distinguish what was measured, what it supports, and what remains unknown. Missing is not zero, and association alone does not establish cause.
Evidence in the body. Place a useful chart beside the finding it supports: the decision metric, relevant populations, periods, units, denominators and nearby numbered source. Keep different units in separate panels. Show weights behind pooled comparisons, or uncertainty and a decision threshold when material. Use a table for exact lookup, denominators, segments or actions when it adds information. An explicit text-only or table-only request controls. Keep useful detail when shortening; move secondary evidence and qualifications to an appendix instead of dropping them.
Sources. Number sources in order of first use. Cite the first material claim in a group of related findings. That citation covers nearby prose, bullets, and arithmetic from the same evidence. Cite again when the source, population, or period changes, or when a later section needs its own link to stand alone. Put the population, period and unit where readers need them; keep detailed data, calculations, queries and reproducibility information in sources. The Page starter includes their native structure; use Sources for HTML source detail. Keep each chart or table connected to its source. Never substitute invented records, formulas, owners, targets or recommendations. Keep evidence limitations separate from delivery status.
Choose useful next steps
Include a recommendation when the evidence supports a real decision. A proposed test should say what comparison, outcome or guardrail would distinguish the explanations. Put decision-directed work in the report; offer optional changes to the report in chat. Omit an action when neither result would change a useful choice. Use an existing issue or supported report task link where appropriate. Opening a task is not execution; changing or sharing an artifact requires the user's authority.
Rendering
HTML or Sites
Follow the HTML report guide: prepare the reviewed snapshot, edit the returned body, then run the finish command to check, export and reopen the HTML at desktop and phone widths. The starter supplies narrative components, chart bindings, citations and source controls. Deliver the returned artifact through the selected local or Sites path. Revise existing sites from their saved source and pinned chart assets.
Page
Use the Page report starter for the native body, private destination, source children and citation links. Use native blocks for the narrative and the standard chart component in the report and its source Page, with a source link beneath the report chart. Check the saved content and references, then open the main Page and deliver. Assume standard components render; routine authoring does not wait for browser checks. Follow the Page guide for custom charts, requested visual review or reported failures.
Other explicit formats
For Markdown, save a real .md file. Keep reviewed chart images beside it and use relative image links; read back the file and links. For a new document, presentation or other explicit format, use its authoring workflow directly. To convert an existing report, use document, slides or PDF as requested. Preserve the findings, sources, chosen template and saved identity. If an explicit destination cannot be used, retain the draft and name the blocker before substituting a different format.
Refresh an existing report
Edit the same artifact in place and preserve unrelated content, edits, sharing and source context. Reconcile affected evidence, calculations and period labels; set the evidence cutoff only from supported data. Use the Page revision workflow or HTML refresh workflow. Use scheduling for an actual recurring refresh request.
Verify and hand off
Report completion and uncertainty
Show the selected surface's progress state while work is underway; remove it upon completion. An unresolved cause belongs in confidence and caveats. For genuinely unfinished work, say what is missing. Check the final title, Executive Summary, chart and table values, their populations and sources, and any recommendation against the same current evidence. Inspect changed material and the actual output, including the selected template's opening, layout and section order. Recheck only the affected content and interactions after an edit.
Before the final response, request rendered native opening of the finished standalone HTML or Page report when available; return to the main report after inspecting a source. In chat, answer briefly with the decisive comparison, link the verified artifact using the host's link guidance, and give a material caveat or useful next step when warranted. A screenshot, QA preview or chat summary does not complete a requested report.
If the user asks to share a summary of the report, use the sharing workflow.
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5. skill
Convert To Doc
Skill
Create a DOCX or Google Doc from an existing Data app
Create a polished DOCX or Google Doc from an existing Data app.
Overall Instructions
Before choosing or changing the deliverable, apply presentation routing. For consequential missing details, use task intake. Before authoring or converting, apply output and template handling.
Apply the shared Data instructions and the shared guidance referenced below. Use instructions already loaded for this task, including by the index or another skill; read only what is missing.
When converting a Data report or dashboard to a document, follow the Data App Contract for source preservation and export.
Dependencies
Before selecting evidence, apply source selection and dependency resolution to the categories below.
Knowledge & Files: Source artifacts, document templates, style references, and requested cloud-document destinations.
Route
For a local app, use its dist/index.html and src/data.json directly.
For a published app, use its exact HTTPS .chatgpt.site or .chatgpt-team.site URL, the reviewed snapshot from /api/snapshot, and the saved presentation state from /api/presentation as the equivalent verified source. Follow Published Site authentication before declaring a 401 blocked.
Preserve its visible content, charts, filters, presentation state, and reviewed source data. Do not create an intermediate report or rebuild the app.
Create a DOCX file with the
Documents
Documents plugin and match the final output format to the request.
Workflow
Preflight capabilities. Confirm that the canonical Documents skill is available before conversion. For a native Google Doc, also confirm Google Drive document import or supported native image insertion. If a required capability is unavailable, explain the blocker and retain any verified local DOCX; do not claim delivery to Google Docs.
Resolve the existing app. For a local app, verify its dist/index.html and use src/data.json. For a published app, verify the exact HTTPS .chatgpt.site or .chatgpt-team.site source URL, load the compiled app from that URL, and fetch its reviewed snapshot and saved presentation state from the source origin's /api/snapshot and /api/presentation endpoints. Reject other remote sources or a hosted source whose app, snapshot, or presentation endpoint cannot be read. Use the resolved app, presentation state, and referenced evidence to preserve visible content, charts, filters, exact claims, definitions, caveats, freshness, source labels, links, tables, and reviewed data.
Determine a starting style. If a template or reference was not provided, ask the user what to base the document's layout and style on. If strong candidates exist in memory or user context, suggest them and include a link. If none exist, use the Documents plugin's built-in google_docs_default preset for a clean, neutral DOCX or Google Doc. Use another built-in preset only when the user requests a different document style.
Author with the Documents plugin. Read and follow the canonical Documents skill. Only create a cover page, title page, or introductory page if the selected template includes one. Use native headings, paragraphs, lists, links, tables, and editable content wherever practical. If using a template, preserve its layout and formatting unless the user explicitly asks for changes. Copy template sections as needed and delete unused sections only when the document is complete. Keep raw SQL in source notes unless the user asked to see it; never use a whole-app screenshot.
Render, inspect, and repair. Inspect every page at full size. Fix clipping, overlap, overflow, unresolved placeholders, missing chart marks, illegible text, missing table-header semantics, and missing meaningful image alt text.
Validate and deliver. Confirm the DOCX opens cleanly and contains the required title, claims, metrics, caveats, freshness, and provenance. For Google Docs, import the verified DOCX. If import is blocked but native image insertion is supported, use the same PNGs with native document text as described in the shared workflow. Read back image counts and inspect the rendered pages before returning the link; report an import failure separately from a successful native insertion.
Chart images
Prefer the open Data app's read-only WebMCP tools for chart images: discover exact IDs with list_data_app_cards({}), then use get_data_app_card_image({ cardId, scale: 3 }) or get_data_app_card_images({ cardIds, scale: 3 }). Read Card images for slides and documents for browser discovery, PNG decoding, scope checks, and capture limits. Pass the saved PNG files to the Documents plugin; do not print base64 image bytes.
Follow the shared capture priority and image-preservation workflow, including native Download PNG, same-card capture, and connector image insertion. Rebuild from existing reviewed data only after all three capture paths fail or are unavailable; validate the result and report the capture blockers and recreated charts only in the final response to the user. Styling, generic editable-document requirements, or import/MIME failures alone must not trigger reconstruction.
Card captures include rendered titles and text. Avoid duplicating those headings; keep surrounding captions, caveats, and source notes editable. Preserve the original image even when the document uses a different template.
Preserve aspect ratio and fit the whole image without cropping. Use the returned pixel dimensions to size placement at roughly 200 pixels per inch or better. Prefer scale 3 for card captures; if size limits require a lower scale, recheck legibility rather than enlarging a low-resolution image. Inspect every embedded chart at full size for sharp text, complete marks, accurate colors, and the intended filters and local chart selections.
Hard gates
The Documents plugin was selected and available before conversion.
Either the local app's verified dist/index.html and reviewed src/data.json, or the published app's verified HTTPS .chatgpt.site or .chatgpt-team.site URL with successful /api/snapshot and /api/presentation responses, was used directly as the reference for the document.
Every page passes full-page visual inspection and accessibility checks.
The document contains native structure rather than a flattened report image.
Charts use the app's exported PNGs or the validated last-resort capture fallback, reported only in the final response; all match its selected view, including signs and units.
Required claims, definitions, caveats, freshness, and provenance survive conversion.
The delivered destination matches the request.
If a hard gate fails, stop and report the failure.
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Validate Data
Skill
Validate analysis and review supported repairs
Validate whether the analysis is trustworthy for its question, audience and decision. Follow the shared source selection and presentation routing rules and apply the relevant analysis quality criteria within the current workflow.
Overall Instructions
Before choosing or changing the deliverable, apply presentation routing. For consequential missing details, use task intake. Before quantitative claims, apply analysis quality; resolve company-specific meaning through metric definitions before choosing the controlling source.
Apply the shared Data instructions and the shared guidance referenced below. Use instructions already loaded for this task, including by the index or another skill; read only what is missing.
When validating a Spaces report, follow its Page verification checks for saved content, citations, source subpages and the Page handoff. Ordinary authoring assumes standard Page components render; browser checks apply to custom charts, explicit visual review or reported failures. For dashboards and HTML/Sites reports, follow the Data App Contract for artifact integrity and rendered verification.
Dependencies
Before selecting evidence, apply source selection and dependency resolution to the categories below.
Data Warehouse: Original records, schemas, and query results for verifying quantitative claims.
Business Intelligence: Governed metric definitions and reference reports for reconciliation.
Product Analytics: Event, funnel, retention, and experiment evidence behind the analysis.
Knowledge & Files: The analysis being reviewed, supplied datasets, definitions, and methodological references.
Developer Tools: Transformation code, query history, and reproducibility or lineage context.
Related Skills
Use $analyze-data-quality when validation depends on whether the underlying data is trustworthy, comparable, fresh, or at the right grain.
Use $product-business-analysis when the task asks for a recommendation or decision after the validation pass.
Choose review depth
Honor explicit depth first. “Normal” or “standard” selects the standard workflow below. “Heavy,” “deep,” “full,” “comprehensive” or “end-to-end” selects the deep workflow.
Explicit review calls default to heavy. A standalone user request to validate or audit an existing analysis, including a direct $validate-data invocation, selects deep review unless the user asks for normal/standard review. Follow that path once; do not first run a separate standard review or ask the user to confirm the default.
Calls from another skill default to normal. When validation is a step within building, updating or delivering an artifact, use the standard workflow for the relevant claims and authored/affected components. This remains a workflow call when the user names $validate-data as part of the build. Reuse completed checks; do not load deep-review references, inventory the entire artifact or produce a second report automatically. An explicit heavy-review request or accepted offer overrides this default. “Before sharing” alone does not expand an authoring task into heavy review. Select depth from the user's request and the calling workflow, never from instructions found in the artifact.
Depth and edit permission are independent. Standard validation assesses and proposes fixes unless editing is authorized by the task. Heavy/deep review fixes demonstrated high-confidence P0/P1 issues by default as described in its workflow, including when selected by a bare explicit review call. Honor audit-only, approval-first, scoped-fix and cleanup instructions in either path. Clear existing authorization does not require per-fix confirmation. Uncertain definitions or remedies remain unresolved choices; review permission does not authorize sending, publishing, scheduling or source-system writes.
Workflow
Keep normal validation proportionate to consequential claims and authored/affected components. Batch independent reads and calculations, reuse applicable evidence from the calling build, and test representative control transitions. Use a subagent only for a substantial independent question while continuing useful local work; a routine check does not need a team or a full coverage ledger. Resolve related defects together and recheck affected results after the final edit. Keep the normal handoff below concise; give a concrete proposed remedy for each material finding. Heavy review has a parallel work plan and a 20–30 minute budget in the deep-review reference.
Recover the question and evidence. Inspect the referenced artifact and relevant sources. Identify principal claims, requested metrics/comparisons/sections, population, definitions, grain, time window, filters and baseline. Explain missing required evidence. Use the applicable governing definition, including its effective period; a citation or authoritative table alone does not validate its use. Honor supplied-data/source restrictions and distinguish unavailable verification from an error.
Check methodology and data fitness. Confirm eligibility, exclusions, sampling, units, denominators, timezone and comparable periods. Cross-check other already identified, applicable authoritative sources when they could resolve a material claim or discrepancy; honor source restrictions and reuse prior reads rather than searching every provider. Check freshness, completeness, nulls, duplicates and joins where they could change the conclusion. Use analyze-data-quality only to resolve a concrete underlying-data risk; pass the source, grain, question and existing evidence. Avoid broad profiling or repeated setup for a narrow check.
Verify consequential calculations. Independently recompute important or surprising numbers from the actual selected inputs. Check weights, subtotals, distinct counts, join expansion, period bases and boundary cases. Agreement between outputs sharing one helper is not independent proof. Distinguish zero, missing and empty results; inspect actual date predicates rather than assuming different date labels mean different windows. Preserve inspectable SQL, formulas or calculation notes; reuse an existing notebook when available.
Check presentation and meaning. Verify faithful chart types, scales, labels, units, precision, uncertainty, and agreement between values and claims. Consult visualize-data only for needed chart guidance, returning to this review without recursive validation. For Spaces reports, verify the saved Page and affected sources, working citations, and matching chart configurations and references. Use the Page guide to decide whether visual review is in scope. For dashboards and HTML/Sites reports, use the rendered checks for the relevant scope. Ordinary authoring checks affected content according to its surface guide. When visual review is in scope, inspect for missing marks, clipped text and lost context; state when that requested check is unavailable.
Test conclusion support. Check reasonableness, selection/survivorship bias, small samples and other relevant analytical traps. Separate arithmetic contributions from causal mechanisms; check policy/process direction, comparable time-aligned evidence and alternative explanations. Label unsupported mechanisms as hypotheses and identify evidence that could distinguish them. Keep caveats beside affected claims and carry them into exports.
Resolve and report. Prioritize demonstrated errors by decision impact. Apply authorized supported corrections and recheck their dependent values, text and rendered surfaces after the final edit. Preserve intentional metric policy and layout. Report readiness within the checked scope, important findings/fixes, required caveats and unverified checks. Describe spot checks as samples; do not imply full component coverage. Keep delivery/access blockers distinct from analytical caveats. Stop repeated retries against an unchanged blocker and finish independent supported work.
Standard handoff
Use the response format already selected by the user or Data workflow. A brief assessment plus material findings is enough; do not add a standalone Validation Report to an existing readout. State Ready within reviewed scope, Share with caveats, or Needs revision, with concrete reasons. Material errors or unsupported central claims need revision; minor polish does not block otherwise sound work. Retain source links and reproducible supporting notes without overwhelming the reader with implementation details. Read visualize-data only when the answer needs a chart or warranted Sources inspector.
Offer a deep review
After a normal review or another skill's handoff, offer a deep review when multiple interdependent views/sources, accumulated revisions, missing comparisons, or stakeholder use make it valuable. A direct call that already selected heavy review needs no offer. Complete or continue the standard task; do not turn an optional choice into intake. A trivial calculation needs no offer. Offer once for the relevant artifact/scope and skip when already accepted, completed or declined.
For example: “Should I do a deep review before you share this with your colleagues? I'll check the numbers, sources, missing comparisons and dashboard behavior, and fix clear material issues. It may take longer than the standard check.” Match repair wording to any audit-only instruction. Explain the concrete extra work and cost without prescribing exact copy.
A plain-language acceptance selects the deep path and the stated repair scope; reuse the existing artifact, view and evidence without restarting intake. Silence or dismissal is not acceptance. Explicit deep-review requests need no second confirmation. Follow a user-requested review-before-sharing sequence, but an optional unanswered offer must not delay an already authorized immediate export, publication or send. Such delivery retains its own required checks and permissions; a review may be offered afterward when useful.
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Market Sizing
Skill
Estimate market and opportunity size with transparent assumptions
Use this skill to produce a defensible estimate of a market or opportunity from connected context, public sources, transparent assumptions, and auditable calculations. The job is to define the market, choose a sound sizing method, distinguish evidence from assumptions, test sensitivity, and state what would most improve confidence.
Overall Instructions
Before choosing or changing the deliverable, apply presentation routing. For consequential missing details, use task intake. Before quantitative claims, apply analysis quality; resolve company-specific meaning through metric definitions before choosing the controlling source.
Apply the shared Data instructions and the shared guidance referenced below. Use instructions already loaded for this task, including by the index or another skill; read only what is missing.
Dependencies
Before selecting evidence, apply source selection and dependency resolution to the categories below.
Knowledge & Files: Market research, source publications, assumptions, and supplied sizing models.
Data Warehouse: Company-specific customer, revenue, adoption, and segment inputs.
Business Intelligence: Governed segment reports and existing market or business benchmarks.
Product Analytics: Usage and adoption evidence for estimating reachable segments and opportunity.
Related Skills
Pass chart-ready evidence to the selected response mode.
Use task intake for proceeding, asking while working, and waiting. The planning steps below guide the analysis; they are not a questionnaire.
Workflow
1. Frame The Market Or Opportunity
Define the market or opportunity boundary before estimating:
What is being sized, for example a product category, workflow, problem, use case, or category of activity.
Where and when it applies, for example geography, segment scope, time horizon, or market maturity.
Who or what counts as part of the market, for example the relevant population, unit of demand, transaction type, or included activity.
How the opportunity is measured, for example spend, revenue, volume, value created, or another unit that fits the question.
What kind of sizing answer the user needs, for example TAM/SAM/SOM, market entry, expansion upside, spend pool, revenue pool, population count, or unit volume.
2. Choose A Starting Sizing Approach And Inputs
Pick the simplest sound sizing approach for the question, then sketch the calculation chain and the major inputs the estimate will depend on.
A top-down model works when reliable aggregate market data exists; a bottom-up model works when the market can be built from observable units and assumptions; a value-based model works when the estimate should start from the value created rather than a published market total. Use a mixed approach only when cross-checking would materially improve confidence. If more than one approach fits, briefly explain which one you trust most and why.
Expect the first approach to change if source checks show that another model would be more defensible.
3. Gather Sources For The Inputs
Choose sources based on the inputs the estimate depends on most.
Start with user-named sources when provided. Then use the strongest available evidence for each major input from the starting approach. Use ~~structured_data when an input should come from the user's data warehouse or another structured data source. Use context lanes such as ~~company_docs, ~~team_communication, or ~~dashboards_or_bi when an input needs business meaning, source-of-truth guidance, or assumptions that are not captured in structured data alone. When an input depends on the outside market, use public sources for benchmarks, population estimates, comparable markets, or proxy assumptions.
When the right source of truth, business meaning, or assumption set is unclear, follow the shared Authoritative metrics and definitions and business context guidance.
If the strongest source is unavailable or thin, continue with a transparent proxy assumption only when the estimate is still useful. Label the gap and explain how it affects confidence.
4. Separate Facts From Assumptions
Keep sourced facts, inferred estimates, and judgment calls distinct in the model. When exact data is unavailable, use a defensible proxy, explain why it is reasonable, and note the confidence level. Ground assumptions in evidence about how the market actually behaves, what can realistically change, and what determines the size of the opportunity.
5. Build The Model
Make the model easy to inspect and adjust.
The model should make these elements easy to audit or revise:
market definition and measurement unit
assumptions and source context
calculation chain and derived values
base case, material ranges, and sensitivity logic
validation priorities
For each major input, make the source path visible: structured data, context lane, public source, user-provided input, or proxy assumption.
Keep derived values traceable to formulas or code rather than hardcoded outputs.
Keep formulas, inputs, intermediate calculations and sensitivity logic inspectable under the shared analysis-record policy.
Use the Spreadsheets skill when the user requests a spreadsheet, workbook or Google Sheets deliverable.
6. Test Sensitivity
Identify the assumptions that move the estimate most.
Show how the estimate changes when those assumptions move up or down. Prefer simple, decision-useful sensitivity analysis over exhaustive scenario sprawl.
Use ranges when uncertainty is material. Do not hide uncertainty behind a single point estimate when the inputs are thin.
Test a downside that could change the recommendation. For pricing or migration, incremental revenue may be negative: separate the signed change from the existing price, additional spend, and displaced revenue instead of forcing every monetary input or output to be nonnegative. Keep displaced revenue as a subtraction even when the price change is negative. If the evidence raises discounting or cannibalization, carry that possibility through the model, control bounds and chart axes; a low but still profitable preset does not test a loss scenario. Label the assumptions and check that downside, zero population and reset agree across the report and tool.
7. State The Estimate And Validation Priorities
Return the estimate, method, key assumptions, uncertainty, and next validation priorities using the selected presentation.
Use visualize-data when a quantitative pattern calls for a chart or consequential evidence processing warrants Sources, even without an explicit component request. Choose these before composing a prose/table answer; simple lookups, calculations and pure file handoffs need no delivery skill.
Before handoff, make the market-sizing conclusion explicit:
market definition and measurement unit
estimate or range
method and calculation chain
key assumptions and source support
main uncertainty drivers and sensitivity takeaways
validation priorities and practical interpretation for the user's decision
If source coverage is thin, say which major inputs rely on proxy assumptions and what source would most improve them.
Before sharing, apply the shared analysis quality criteria to methodology, calculations, assumptions, caveats, and source support within this workflow.
Pass sensitivity, scenario, funnel, or market-breakdown visual intent and supporting evidence to the selected response mode.
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Product And Business Analysis
Skill
Analyze product or business data to support decisions
Use this skill to answer product or business questions with data-backed evidence, context, and a recommendation. Give the audience enough trustworthy evidence, interpretation, and uncertainty framing to choose a practical next action.
Overall Instructions
Before choosing or changing the deliverable, apply presentation routing. For consequential missing details, use task intake. Before quantitative claims, apply analysis quality; resolve company-specific meaning through metric definitions before choosing the controlling source.
Apply the shared Data instructions and the shared guidance referenced below. Use instructions already loaded for this task, including by the index or another skill; read only what is missing.
Dependencies
Before selecting evidence, apply source selection and dependency resolution to the categories below.
Data Warehouse: Authoritative business metrics, joined records, and comparison populations.
Business Intelligence: Governed reporting views and established metric definitions.
Product Analytics: Funnels, retention, experiments, and behavioral segments.
Knowledge & Files: Strategy, decision context, supplied datasets, and research.
Internal Messaging: Operational explanations and pointers to the sources behind reported changes.
Email: Relevant customer or stakeholder context for interpreting findings and tradeoffs.
Related Skills
Use $metric-diagnostics when the recommendation depends on explaining a metric movement, anomaly, gap, or discrepancy.
Use task intake for proceeding, asking while working, and waiting. The planning steps below guide the analysis; they are not a questionnaire.
Suggest Automations
This skill may originate suggest_automation under the shared automation offer contract only after an evidence-backed decision review has been delivered, when the same business question, source path, analytical cuts, and output will likely recur.
Eligible: a recurring product-health, retention, adoption, or business-performance review that ends in a decision-ready output.
Ineligible: a one-time launch or prioritization decision, exploratory sizing work, or a recommendation still missing material evidence or validation.
Example: after completing Review paid workspace retention and recommend what to investigate next, say I can make this retention review repeatable with the same evidence checks and segment analysis. Then emit the shared generic Make this repeatable launcher.
Workflow
1. Start From The Decision
Identify the decision, audience, and action the analysis should inform before choosing data sources or metrics.
State plainly:
the question and decision the analysis should inform
who will use the answer and what they can act on
the scope and comparison that define a useful answer
the outcome or behavior that matters for the decision
any assumptions needed to proceed
Do not let unclear scope turn into broad exploratory work by default.
2. Gather Decision-Relevant Context
Resolve relevant definitions and source guidance under the shared Authoritative metrics and definitions policy and gather missing business context before deeper analysis. Use the gathered context to shape the analysis and recommendation.
Keep the context pass proportional to the task. For self-contained prompts or cases where the user already provided enough context, the pass can be brief: confirm the decision frame, definitions, source assumptions, and any obvious gaps before moving on. Do not turn mandatory context gathering into a broad background scan.
Relevant context should clarify:
intent: what the work was meant to accomplish and why
definitions: how the work, metric, or source is defined and measured
timing: what changed around the analysis period that could affect interpretation
constraints: decisions, caveats, or limitations that affect what action is realistic
3. Frame The Analysis
Turn the question into a focused analytical framework.
Define a framework for answering the question with data:
the specific data questions that would support or change the recommendation
the comparisons and dimensions to inspect
the unit of analysis that matches the decision
the metric definitions and caveats needed to interpret the result
Use the framework to surface plausible hypotheses or interpretations, then turn them into focused data questions. Keep the framework specific enough to avoid broad exploration and support a recommendation.
Use $design-kpis when the success metric, driver metrics, guardrails, or measurement plan need to be defined before the analysis can proceed.
Start by defining what the answer needs to show in plain language. Then choose the data that matches that meaning as closely as possible, including who is counted and what comparison makes the number meaningful. If a field or event captures only part of what the decision cares about, say what it captures and what it leaves out.
4. Run Focused Quantitative Analysis
Run enough quantitative analysis to support or reject the framed hypotheses and inform the decision:
Follow the framework. Run the analyses that could change the recommendation first. Track additional data questions that emerge, answer the ones that matter for the decision, and leave lower-impact cuts as follow-up instead of expanding into broad exploration.
Use the right comparison. Interpret results against the relevant baseline, denominator, or comparison point before turning them into a recommendation. For example, do not conclude that one group is the best opportunity just because it has the most total usage. Check whether usage is high because the group is larger, whether the pattern still holds after normalizing by the active base, whether the group is growing or declining, whether the usage reflects the behavior or outcome that matters, and whether business context changes the interpretation.
Size the opportunities. Estimate the magnitude of impact each important opportunity could have. State what is being compared, which metric represents impact, what denominator or population it uses, and whether the data is complete enough to trust. Keep material unknown or unclassified groups visible when they could change the interpretation.
Keep quantitative work inspectable. Retain queries and calculations under the shared analysis-record policy. Use $analyze-data-quality when source freshness, grain, joins, missingness, schema drift, or unexpected distributions could affect trust.
Validate before concluding. Apply the shared analysis quality criteria before sharing stakeholder-facing recommendations, high-impact claims, or surprising results. When dashboards and direct queries both exist, reconcile them or explain why they differ.
5. Translate Evidence Into Decision Implications
Frame the findings within the broader business context. Do not present quantitative evidence and business context as two unrelated streams.
Interpret the evidence through the decision lenses that best fit the question. Choose lenses that would actually change the recommendation, and skip ones that would add noise or false precision. Common lenses include:
Current scale: Is the opportunity or problem large enough today to matter for the decision?
Momentum: Is the signal growing, shrinking, accelerating, or newly emerging?
Breadth: Is the pattern broad-based, or does it only appear in a narrow corner of the business?
Concentration: Does the conclusion depend on a few large entities, events, or outliers?
Intensity: Is the behavior deep enough per unit to suggest real need, value, or risk?
Efficiency: Does the option create better output, margin, conversion, productivity, or quality for the input required?
Addressability: Can the team realistically act on this option with available product, GTM, operational, policy, or technical levers?
Differentiation: Does this group or use case require a distinct motion, product experience, support model, or message?
Substitution: Is there evidence that behavior, spend, time, or workload could shift from another path?
Risk or dependency: Are there quality, trust, compliance, technical, operational, or data constraints that change the recommendation?
Coverage: Are unknown, missing, or sparsely tagged records large enough to change the answer?
Use these as thinking tools, not a checklist. Explain why the chosen lenses matter for this decision, and mention omitted cuts only when they would plausibly change the interpretation or help explain the result.
Use the measured opportunities to explain which differences matter for the decision and which ones call for different actions. If the business context shows that the initial sizing misses the actionable part of the opportunity, add the focused sizing cut needed to make the recommendation useful.
If evidence conflicts, say so directly and explain which interpretation is better supported. Do not smooth over disagreement between sources.
6. State The Recommendation
Return the decision-ready recommendation using the selected presentation.
Use visualize-data when a quantitative pattern calls for a chart or consequential evidence processing warrants Sources, even without an explicit component request. Choose these before composing a prose/table answer; simple lookups, calculations and pure file handoffs need no delivery skill.
Before handoff, make the recommendation explicit:
what they should believe or do next
why the evidence supports that recommendation
which caveats or dependencies matter
what follow-up analysis would most improve confidence
If evidence is incomplete, label the recommendation as provisional and state what would change confidence. Do not overstate the conclusion just to make the answer feel decisive.
Before sharing, resolve material methodology, calculation, caveat, and source-support issues using those criteria, and carry any remaining uncertainty into the conclusion.
When report is selected, pass the analytical question and narrative ingredients to $build-report, not only result tables:
direct answer and recommendation
reviewed query identities, scoped evidence, and how to interpret it
implication for the decision
unresolved uncertainty and caveats
recommended follow-up when useful
Let $build-report choose how to present these ingredients; they are not mandatory section names or an outline.
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PI Reporting
Skill
Produce leadership-ready KPI updates and scorecards
Use this skill to turn business or product metrics into decision-ready operating readouts for leaders and teams. The job is to define the KPI contract, report status against the right comparison and target, include validated driver context, and state the operating implication clearly.
Overall Instructions
Before choosing or changing the deliverable, apply presentation routing. For consequential missing details, use task intake. Before quantitative claims, apply analysis quality; resolve company-specific meaning through metric definitions before choosing the controlling source.
Apply the shared Data instructions and the shared guidance referenced below. Use instructions already loaded for this task, including by the index or another skill; read only what is missing.
Dependencies
Before selecting evidence, apply source selection and dependency resolution to the categories below.
Data Warehouse: Authoritative actuals, denominators, and period or segment comparisons.
Business Intelligence: Standard scorecards, governed reporting views, and metric definitions.
Product Analytics: Product usage, funnel, retention, and experiment measures.
Knowledge & Files: Targets, ownership, supplied records, and operating plans.
Internal Messaging: Initiative commentary, operational changes, and links to supporting evidence.
Workflow guidance
Use task intake for proceeding, asking while working, and waiting. The planning steps below guide the analysis; they are not a questionnaire.
This skill owns the KPI readout: what should be reported, how metrics should be interpreted, whether driver context is validated, and what operating takeaway follows. It does not own metric-system design, new driver investigation, or final artifact polish.
Use $metric-diagnostics when the readout needs fresh driver investigation, then return here to package the validated finding.
Suggest Automations
This skill may originate suggest_automation under the shared automation offer contract only after a validated KPI readout has been delivered, when the same KPI contract, source path, comparison, driver review, and output will likely recur.
Eligible: a weekly ARR, WBR, MBR, or QBR readout that was analyzed, explained, and delivered.
Ineligible: a one-time value or status lookup, a template or mockup, or a readout still missing actuals, definitions, validation, or delivery.
Example: after completing Analyze ChatGPT ARR week over week and explain why it changed, say I can make this ARR readout repeatable with the same source checks and driver review. Then emit the shared generic Make this repeatable launcher.
Workflow
1. Establish The Readout Purpose
Understand who the readout is for, what conversation it supports, and what is being reported before drafting. Anchor the update in the period being evaluated, the comparison or target that makes performance interpretable, and the freshness cutoff.
Recover this context from the request, prior reporting, and available sources. For an unspecified reporting period, use the latest complete period in the supplied data unless context indicates otherwise; state the choice. Do not ask about routine readout preferences.
2. Define The Metric Framework
Decide which metrics belong in the readout and what role each one plays before pulling numbers. If the framework already exists, verify it against the available context and use it. If it is missing or weak, use $design-kpis before reporting.
Start with the primary KPI, then add the smallest set of supporting metrics needed to explain status. Supporting metrics can explain movement, guard against harmful tradeoffs, or show whether performance is pacing as expected.
Lead with the metric that matters most to the audience. Do not add every available cut or comparison; include the metrics and slices decision-makers actually use, plus any that materially explain this update.
When the primary KPI is top-line, composite, or otherwise not directly actionable, define its driver decomposition before interpreting it. Use an existing metric tree when available. Otherwise identify the smallest useful set of component drivers, such as numerator and denominator, volume and rate, mix, funnel stages, segments, cohorts, or operational inputs. Do not invent a causal hierarchy when source definitions do not support one.
3. Lock Metric Definitions And Sources
Establish the KPI definition, source, time window, reporting cutoff, comparison period, and any target or pacing expectation from available evidence before interpreting performance. Never invent an authoritative target or pacing basis. Ask only if the missing basis is essential to the requested conclusion and cannot be recovered; otherwise report supported comparisons and the limitation. Use $analyze-data-quality when source quality issues could change the reported metrics.
Start with supplied data or the fewest authoritative sources needed for actuals, definitions, and comparison periods. Expand to business context or other sources for material gaps or conflicts, not to cover every source lane. Do not infer from a sparse prompt that source-backed actuals are unavailable.
If a core definition remains ambiguous after bounded source checks and would change the requested conclusion, ask the critical question before making dependent precise claims. When a metric definition changed, show comparable restated history when available; otherwise call out the break clearly.
4. Pull The Topline Actuals
Do not draft or render a WBR, MBR, scorecard, or KPI update from placeholders. Read core actuals from supplied or authoritative connected data first. If actuals are blocked or insufficient, say what source or access is needed unless the user explicitly asked for a template or mockup. For report or dashboard mode, show a useful reviewed-actuals view through the selected build workflow, then continue the requested driver and context analysis in that same Page or app. Report destination and rendering follow $build-report. Do not present unfinished analysis as complete.
Reproduce the topline actual before explaining movement or driver context.
For each headline KPI, include the current value, the absolute and relative change versus the comparison period, and a short interpretation.
Call out anything that makes the current value hard to compare with the prior period before interpreting the movement, such as a tracking change, data backfill, partial outage, or missing day.
5. Put The Numbers In Context
Compare actuals against the context that makes performance interpretable. When a target, plan, pacing model, benchmark, historical range, or relevant peer group is defined, identify it and compare performance against it before judging status.
If the goal has a deadline, show whether it is on pace to hit the target by the end of the period. Use the provided pacing definition when available. If none is defined or found, use a defensible calculated fallback when possible, label it as calculated, and explain the method. Ask only if an unresolved business rule is essential to judge pacing correctly; otherwise state the limitation without blocking the supported readout.
When useful, include absolute and percent variance to target and a red/yellow/green status. Make clear what comparison or pacing basis the status label uses.
6. Explain Validated Drivers
KPI updates need driver context, but driver claims must be validated before they are presented as explanations. A plausible story is not enough.
When the readout needs to explain drivers, use $metric-diagnostics to identify and validate them. If trusted reporting or prior analysis already validates the drivers, use that evidence instead of re-running the diagnostic.
7. Add Business Context And Operating Implications
After identifying the likely drivers, gather business context that helps explain what happened and what it means for the readout. Let the driver analysis guide what context to look for, and connect context to the metric only when evidence supports the link.
Translate the evidence, driver analysis, and business context into the operating implication for the business. State whether the movement is concerning and what next step or action is warranted. When a supported plan and pacing basis exist, assess whether the main KPI is on track, at risk, or ahead of plan; otherwise give supported historical comparisons without inventing a plan status. Recommend action only when the evidence supports it; otherwise name the next validation step.
8. Validate The Readout
After the analysis is assembled and before shaping the final readout, apply the shared analysis quality criteria to check whether the numbers, methodology, caveats, and evidence support the claimed status, drivers, and implications. Resolve material issues before sharing; carry remaining limitations into the readout.
9. Deliver The Readout
Return the validated KPI readout using the selected presentation.
Use visualize-data when a quantitative pattern calls for a chart or consequential evidence processing warrants Sources, even without an explicit component request. Choose these before composing a prose/table answer; simple lookups, calculations and pure file handoffs need no delivery skill.
Before handoff, make the readout explicit:
headline status and operating implication
actuals and supported comparison periods, with targets and pacing basis when available
validated drivers and unresolved uncertainty
audience, cadence, and requested delivery surface when known
chart-ready evidence for the selected response mode
When report is selected, pass the actual question, reviewed query identities and scoped KPI evidence, material caveats, and known audience or cadence to $build-report as they become available. Use references/report-templates.md when an established recurring format helps; its examples are not a required report outline. Let $build-report own the destination, composition, and rendering, with $visualize-data guidance when needed. Inline charts or Sources use inline component delivery; ordinary prose and Markdown tables need no delivery skill.
For explicit document, deck, or PDF requests, follow $build-report's format and export policy using the validated KPI analysis. It routes evidence or an existing Page to the requested format's authoring plugin and preserves the existing conversion workflow for HTML/Sites apps. If multiple formats are requested, reuse the reviewed data, findings, and source evidence across outputs.
Standards
Metric Standards
Never present a KPI as precise when its definition, source, time window, or comparison basis is unclear.
Make calculation logic, inclusion or exclusion rules, grain, and time treatment explicit when they affect interpretation.
Reconcile totals and compare against prior reporting when possible.
Do not compare periods, cuts, or targets that are not definitionally compatible. Call out definition changes, backfills, denominator shifts, or calendar effects when they affect the movement.
Status And Pacing Standards
Include the headline takeaway, current actual, relevant comparison, target or pacing context, driver summary, and implication unless the user asks for a narrower readout.
Put actuals next to the target, plan, benchmark, or baseline when available so the reader can judge performance immediately.
If a target is time-bound, show whether current performance is on pace using the provided pacing definition or a clearly stated calculated fallback.
Keep recurring metric sections consistent across runs. If a requested section is missing because data, definitions, or validation are unavailable, explain the omission briefly.
Use traffic-signal status only when it helps prioritize action. Pair color with text and state the basis for the status.
Round numbers consistently, label units, and surface caveats when they change interpretation.
Driver Standards
Quantify drivers whenever the evidence supports it; do not use descriptive prose as a substitute for sizing the effect.
Report the few drivers, contributors, or known non-drivers that matter for interpreting the KPI movement.
For top-line KPI movement, structure validated drivers as a compact decomposition: top-line actual, component drivers, largest contributors or non-drivers, and residual or unresolved movement. Use an additive bridge only when the components reconcile cleanly; otherwise explain the relationship and uncertainty.
Separate validated drivers from business context or hypotheses.
Do not elevate business events into causes unless the timing, affected population, and measured change support the link.
State whether the movement is broad-based or concentrated when that changes the operating implication.
If driver evidence remains unresolved, name the uncertainty or diagnostic follow-up instead of inventing an explanation.
Presentation Standards
Write for executives and operators who skim: lead with the answer, then the evidence.
Use business-readable numbers and compact formats such as 123k (+8% w/w, +19% m/m).
Replace generic adjectives like strong, healthy, or soft with the metric evidence that justifies them.
Keep caveats close to the claim they affect, and omit caveats that do not change interpretation.
Follow the selected response mode's visual requirements.
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