guardrails skillA
guardrails is agent-read markdown (skill) from ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst: Ensure every success metric is paired with guardrail metrics and check for trade-offs before presenting improvements as wins. Guardrails protect against winning the metric game while losing the business game. Apply this skill whenever you define a metric, create a metric spec, document a KPI, report positive findings, present an improvement, analyze metric changes, investigate metric lifts, share good news about metrics, celebrate wins, or present results showing any metric increased. This skill.
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# Skill: Guardrails Awareness ## Purpose Ensure that every success metric is paired with at least one guardrail metric, and that positive findings are checked for trade-offs before being presented as wins. ## When to Use Apply this skill in two situations: 1. **When defining metrics** — after using the Metric Spec skill, check whether the metric has a guardrail pair 2. **When reporting positive findings** — before presenting any improvement, check whether a related guardrail metric degraded ## Instructions ### What Are Guardrails? A **guardrail metric** is a metric you don't want to degrade while optimizing a success metric. Guardrails protect against winning the metric game while losing the business game. ``` SUCCESS METRIC: The metric you're trying to improve GUARDRAIL: The metric that must not get worse ``` **The rule:** Never celebrate an improvement on a success metric without checking its guardrail(s). An improvement with a degraded guardrail is a trade-off, not a win. ### Common Guardrail Pairs | Success Metric | Guardrail(s) | Why | |---------------|-------------|-----| …
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ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst · 302 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · branch main
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