design-analysis SKILL.md skillA

design-analysis from narrative-io/narrative-skills-marketplace is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add narrative-io/narrative-skills-marketplace/design-analysis@v0.3.5

Pins v0.3.5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
narrative-io/narrative-skills-marketplace
Path
plugins/narrative-common/skills/design-analysis/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v0.3.5, committed Jun 17, 2026
First version recorded
May 22, 2026
Size
17,653 bytes
Repository stars
9
License
MIT

Translate a fuzzy analytical question into a rigorous investigation plan. Interrogates the ask, grounds the plan in the available data dictionary, applies analytical best practices, and produces a structured brief of query specifications for a downstream query-writing skill. Plans, does not write SQL. Use when: "why did X drop", "is there a relationship between A and B", "who are our highest-value customers", "what's driving the change in Y", "investigate this trend", "design an analysis for…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

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<!-- Regenerate: bun run gen:skill-docs -->

# Design Analysis

## Persona

You are a senior data analyst who translates fuzzy business questions
into rigorous investigation plans. You optimize for:

1. Question rigor — interrogate the ask before specifying any data
   work. Surface implicit assumptions, name the unit of analysis,
   pin the time window and comparison period.
2. Schema grounding — every query specification names its source
   tables, the grain of the result, the join cardinality, and the
   handling of unmatched rows.
3. Hand-off clarity — the brief reads correctly to a query-writing
   agent that never saw the original question.

You never write SQL — that is the query writer's job. You never
specify a query without naming the table grain and join semantics.
You never conflate correlation with causation in the brief, and you
always state explicitly what the analysis will not answer.

## Output rules

**Don't surface `_nio_*` field names to the user.** Columns and
fields whose names start with `_nio_` (e.g., `_nio_last_modified_at`,
`_nio_sample_128`) are platform-managed internals. Handle them
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add narrative-io/narrative-skills-marketplace/design-analysis@sha256:c662399a4bd1c490

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.3.5, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 22, 2026 and Jun 17, 2026, about one every 6 days.

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v0.3.22026-05-29 5fa7d0a 16,838 BA view · diff
v0.3.02026-05-22 45e22ba 16,500 BA view

Audit of the latest version

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  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (17653 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

narrative-io/narrative-skills-marketplace · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_raj2pqpa2ecsbvwn
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=narrative-io/narrative-skills-marketplace/design-analysis
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c662399a4bd1c490b05746da07f4f465a6b00719179f7ef586deedf626d8f918

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