close-the-loop SKILL.md skillA
close-the-loop from ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst/close-the-loop@git:20260902.b370de6Pins git:20260902.b370de6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst
- Path
.claude/skills/close-the-loop/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260902.b370de6, committed Sep 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 27, 2026
- Size
- 13,421 bytes
- Repository stars
- 322
- License
- MIT
Ensure every analysis that includes a recommendation ends with a clear, actionable follow-up plan. CRITICAL RULE - Only use this skill AFTER a specific recommendation has been made. Use this skill at the end of ANY analysis that produces a recommendation, action item, suggested fix, proposed investment, or conclusion that says "we should do X." This skill is CRITICAL for turning analytical insights into actual business outcomes — without it, recommendations get forgotten and never evaluated.…
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
# Skill: Close-the-Loop
## Purpose
Ensure every analysis that includes a recommendation ends with a clear follow-up plan — who decides, what metric tracks success, when to check back, and what to do if the expected outcome doesn't materialize.
## When to Use
### Triggering Test (use this decision tree)
Ask yourself: "Has a specific recommendation or action item been made?"
- **YES** → Apply Close-the-Loop
- **NO** → Skip (even if a decision is needed, wait until the recommendation is formulated)
### Apply this skill when:
- The analysis concludes with a recommendation ("we should do X")
- Root cause investigation identifies a fix ("deploy the hotfix", "roll back v3.2")
- Opportunity sizing recommends an investment ("invest 2 eng-months to recover $2.1M")
- Multiple options are presented and a decision is needed ("Option A vs B vs C")
- The analysis outputs action items that need tracking
### Skip this skill when:
- Pure exploratory analysis with no recommendations ("interesting pattern, still investigating")
- User is asking whether to investigate ("should we look into this?" — this is premature, no recommendation yet)
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How to install
mdr add ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst/close-the-loop@sha256:a3eda9cb5b823407The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260902.b370de6, 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 2 versions of this file, between Aug 27, 2026 and Sep 2, 2026, about one every 6 days.
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| git:20260902.b370de6 latest | 2026-09-02 | b370de6 | 13,421 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260827.7ff2e25 | 2026-08-27 | 7ff2e25 | 14,311 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (13421 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
ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst · 322 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_v43apv2h6fp3kbti GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst/close-the-loop GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a3eda9cb5b82340761d0bdb6cb56c99b8f759029fdeadabfba1b56493e6a7080
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