Fieldnotes
The habits
behind the skills.
Four essays on the judgment around the query: what makes a result matter, what to ask before the SQL, how to diagnose a move, and how to keep the lesson.
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The number is not the answer
Getting a metric is close to solved. Knowing whether it matters, and what to do about it, is the job.
Ask before you query
A clear question names the decision, the denominator, the comparison, and what would overturn the answer.
The metric moved. Now what?
Separate the arithmetic from the story.
Analysis that compounds
Keep lessons the next analysis actually retrieves.
Next time a metric moves,
bring a recommendation, not just the number.
Install two skills and paste the four-row prompts. See how far your agent gets past the rollback.
Try the four-row case