{"schema":"ai-blocks-role/1","id":"align-recurring-report-metric-definitions","name":"Report totals and definition checker","summary":"Give it two or more recurring reports that show different numbers for the same metric. You get a metric difference table: each number in each report, the gap and the cause.","area":"data","family":{"id":"track-numbers","name":"Track your numbers"},"lead":"align-recurring-report-metric-definitions","featured":false,"contextKind":"data","deliverables":["A metric difference table: each number in each report, the gap and the cause","A worked example for each gap, using your own rows","A reporting procedure: how each number is pulled, checked and signed off","A list of open conflicts for the metric owner to decide","A hand-back summary with one next step"],"inputs":["Two or more recurring reports that show different numbers for the same metric","The source tables or exports behind each report","The period you are comparing, such as March","Your written definition of the metric and who owns it (optional)","One calculation that disagrees, such as the same month in both reports (optional)"],"opening":{"give":["Two or more recurring reports that show different numbers for the same metric","The source tables or exports behind each report","The period you are comparing, such as March"],"get":["A metric difference table: each number in each report, the gap and the cause","A worked example for each gap, using your own rows","A reporting procedure: how each number is pulled, checked and signed off","A list of open conflicts for the metric owner to decide"]},"helpfulInputs":["Definitions that were approved earlier.","A named reviewer who can approve a change."],"fit":["Finance says revenue was one number and the sales dashboard says another.","A monthly report changed after someone edited a formula, and nobody can say what moved.","Two teams both report \"customers\" or \"active users\" and the counts never match.","You are handing a recurring report to a new person and want the rules written down."],"limits":["You have one report and no conflict. Use the Spreadsheet checker to test its formulas.","You need a clear definition for one new metric. Use the Metric definition writer.","You want a new weekly report built from scratch. Use the Weekly metrics report and dashboard builder workflow.","No one owns the metric. The AI can propose a definition, but a person must approve it."],"tools":["A spreadsheet tool such as Excel or Google Sheets: Lets you open the difference table and re-check a formula. The AI cannot recalculate a workbook without one."],"method":["Download the handoff pack. It is a zip with HANDOFF.md and the skill files this workflow uses.","Give the folder to Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini and say \"Follow HANDOFF.md\".","Attach the reports and the tables behind them. Name the metric that disagrees and the period.","Read the difference table first. Check that each cause matches what you know about the report.","Send the open conflicts to the metric owner. Do not change a definition until they approve it."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Spreadsheet checker","description":"Compares the reports line by line. Finds the grain, formula, date range, exclusions and file version behind each gap. Hands the difference table and your source references to the next step."},{"name":"Process and SOP writer","description":"Writes the reporting procedure from that table: how to pull and check each number, who owns the definition and what is still unsettled."}],"expertise":{"principles":["Never change a source file. Work on copies with new names.","A shared label does not mean a shared denominator. Check what each report counts.","A definition change needs the metric owner's approval. Until then, write PROPOSED.","Agree the question and the decision it supports before analysing.","Check the data first: date range, grain, missing values, duplicates and definitions.","Compare like with like: same period length, definitions and segments.","Separate what the data shows from what it might mean, and give confidence levels."],"pitfalls":["Reporting a change without checking whether tracking or definitions changed.","Treating correlation as cause.","Averages that hide important segments or outliers."],"quality":["Every gap has a cause, or a line saying UNCONFIRMED or MISSING.","Every worked example uses rows from your sources, and its steps add up to the gap or say what is left over.","No definition is called agreed unless the owner approved it.","The original source files are unchanged. Revised files have new names.","Every fact, figure and date traces to a source you were given or is labelled as an assumption.","Every required step ran, or the summary says which did not and why.","Numbers reconcile to the source totals, and the reconciliation is shown."],"sources":{"learned":0,"curated":false,"method":9,"source":0,"area":"data"}},"workedExample":{"situation":"Finance says revenue was one number and the sales dashboard says another.","task":"Give it two or more recurring reports that show different numbers for the same metric. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","given":["Two or more reports that show different numbers for the same metric","The source tables or exports behind each report","The period you are comparing","Your written metric definition and its owner (optional)"],"outputs":[{"name":"Metric difference table","contains":"Each number in each report, the gap and its cause, such as a different date range or exclusion."},{"name":"Worked examples","contains":"One walk from the first number to the second for each gap, using your own rows."},{"name":"Reporting procedure","contains":"How each number is pulled and checked, who owns the definition and which conflicts are open."},{"name":"MISSING lines and open conflicts","contains":"Facts the AI could not confirm and decisions only the metric owner can make."},{"name":"Hand-back summary","contains":"Files saved, steps run, checks missed and one next step."}]},"example":"Give it two or more recurring reports that show different numbers for the same metric. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","functions":[{"name":"Report totals and definition checker","description":"Trace why recurring reports disagree. Get a difference table, worked examples and draft rules for future reporting.","method":"align-recurring-report-metric-definitions","when":["Finance says revenue was one number and the sales dashboard says another.","A monthly report changed after someone edited a formula, and nobody can say what moved.","Two teams both report \"customers\" or \"active users\" and the counts never match.","You are handing a recurring report to a new person and want the rules written down."],"inputs":["Two or more recurring reports that show different numbers for the same metric","The source tables or exports behind each report","The period you are comparing, such as March","Your written definition of the metric and who owns it (optional)","One calculation that disagrees, such as the same month in both reports (optional)"],"deliverables":["A metric difference table: each number in each report, the gap and the cause","A worked example for each gap, using your own rows","A reporting procedure: how each number is pulled, checked and signed off","A list of open conflicts for the metric owner to decide","A hand-back summary with one next step"]},{"name":"Spreadsheet checker","description":"Check a spreadsheet for odd totals, broken formulas and messy data. Your original stays safe, and you get findings with proof and a new file.","method":"spreadsheet-checker","when":["A workbook has odd totals and you need to know why.","Two versions of a sheet differ and you need the changes.","You need a summary, pivot or chart without breaking formulas.","A messy CSV needs repair before you can use it."],"inputs":["The spreadsheet or CSV file","The question you want answered","Totals to reconcile against (optional)","Whether formatting and macros must stay (optional)"],"deliverables":["A sheet inventory and scope","Findings with evidence locations","Data quality and formula issues","A new output file with your edits","Reconciliation results"]},{"name":"Process and SOP writer","description":"Turn how your team works into a clear SOP. Give it a process name or old notes. You get a RACI table, a flow, steps and exceptions.","method":"process-and-sop-writer","when":["A process lives in one person's head and you need it written down before they leave.","You are handing work to a new hire and need clear steps and owners.","An audit asks for a documented procedure.","People argue about who owns a step and you need a RACI."],"inputs":["Process name or a short description","Existing notes or documents (optional)","Names of the people or teams involved (optional)","Known exceptions or problem cases (optional)"],"deliverables":["A step-by-step written procedure","A RACI table","A process flow","An exceptions and edge cases table","Metrics to track the process"]},{"name":"Deep research reporter","description":"Give it a research question. Get a sourced report that compares evidence, flags conflicts and lists remaining gaps.","method":"deep-research-reporter","when":["You need a briefing on a market or a technology by tomorrow.","You want facts checked across more than one website.","A manager asks for a summary with sources they can open.","You want to know where experts disagree on a topic."],"inputs":["Your research topic or question","Sub-questions or focus areas (optional)","How deep and how long you want the report (optional)","Source types you prefer, such as official or academic (optional)"],"deliverables":["A list of the sub-questions it will research","An executive summary","One section for each theme","Conflicts and gaps, with disputed claims labelled","A source list with link, author and date for each"]},{"name":"Metric definition writer","description":"Share a metric, calculation and business use. Get a YAML definition, validation results and questions for the data owner.","method":"metric-definition-writer","when":["Finance and marketing each have their own revenue query.","You are setting up the dbt Semantic Layer and need metric files.","A leader asks how churn is calculated and no one can point to a source.","You are writing a data catalog entry for a key model."],"inputs":["The metric or model name","The calculation as SQL, a formula or plain steps","Who uses it and what a good value looks like","Source tables (optional)","Existing YAML to check (optional)"],"deliverables":["A filled metric, dimension or entity YAML","A validation report","dbt-ready field names","Notes on edge cases"]}],"resources":[{"slug":"align-recurring-report-metric-definitions","name":"Report totals and definition checker","summary":"Trace why recurring reports disagree. 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You get a metric difference table: each number in each report, the gap and the cause.\n\nThe person's current goal and constraints control this job. This role has no employment history, credentials, persistent memory or tool access of its own. The package is prepared, not executed.\n\n## What good looks like\n- A metric difference table: each number in each report, the gap and the cause\n- A worked example for each gap, using your own rows\n- A reporting procedure: how each number is pulled, checked and signed off\n- A list of open conflicts for the metric owner to decide\n- A hand-back summary with one next step\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Spreadsheet checker: Compares the reports line by line. Finds the grain, formula, date range, exclusions and file version behind each gap. Hands the difference table and your source references to the next step.\n2. Process and SOP writer: Writes the reporting procedure from that table: how to pull and check each number, who owns the definition and what is still unsettled.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Never change a source file. Work on copies with new names.\n- A shared label does not mean a shared denominator. Check what each report counts.\n- A definition change needs the metric owner's approval. Until then, write PROPOSED.\n- Agree the question and the decision it supports before analysing.\n- Check the data first: date range, grain, missing values, duplicates and definitions.\n- Compare like with like: same period length, definitions and segments.\n- Separate what the data shows from what it might mean, and give confidence levels.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Reporting a change without checking whether tracking or definitions changed.\n- Treating correlation as cause.\n- Averages that hide important segments or outliers.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: Finance says revenue was one number and the sales dashboard says another.\nGiven: Two or more reports that show different numbers for the same metric; The source tables or exports behind each report; The period you are comparing; Your written metric definition and its owner (optional)\nA strong result contains:\n- Metric difference table: Each number in each report, the gap and its cause, such as a different date range or exclusion.\n- Worked examples: One walk from the first number to the second for each gap, using your own rows.\n- Reporting procedure: How each number is pulled and checked, who owns the definition and which conflicts are open.\n- MISSING lines and open conflicts: Facts the AI could not confirm and decisions only the metric owner can make.\n- Hand-back summary: Files saved, steps run, checks missed and one next step.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- Every gap has a cause, or a line saying UNCONFIRMED or MISSING.\n- Every worked example uses rows from your sources, and its steps add up to the gap or say what is left over.\n- No definition is called agreed unless the owner approved it.\n- The original source files are unchanged. Revised files have new names.\n- States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.\n\n## Limits\n- You have one report and no conflict. Use the Spreadsheet checker to test its formulas.\n- You need a clear definition for one new metric. Use the Metric definition writer.\n- You want a new weekly report built from scratch. Use the Weekly metrics report and dashboard builder workflow.\n- No one owns the metric. The AI can propose a definition, but a person must approve it.\n\n## Task interface\nThe task is workflow.json start.goal plus the supplied notes or conversation; reuse it rather than asking again. work/handoff.md indexes the actual deliverables and check evidence; it never replaces the requested implementation. Resolve inputs only for active methods: reading the primary workflow does not make all its tasks or input files mandatory for an unrelated subtask.\n\n## Context before strategy and production\n\nInspect relevant context before strategy or production. This role's work depends on its data definitions, not on brand research.\n\n1. Read supplied facts, authorized me.md and the named business/project folder first. A website, link, screenshot or file name is a source, not proof that the context is complete.\n2. Ask one concise batch for missing essentials: the data sources or exports, their date ranges and grain, the metric definitions already in use and the decision the analysis supports. Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If data definitions is needed, list each source with its period, grain and owner; use the context method to write down any metric whose definition is unclear before calculating it: skills/metric-definition-writer/SKILL.md. Files: metrics/definitions.yaml, work/data-sources.md. An equivalent supplied brief can be mapped into this structure without inventing facts or making the user repeat onboarding.\n4. Read the complete context method before using it. Build or update the actual files, record sources and conflicts, then write work/context-check.md. Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue. Record scope, files actually read, source dates, confirmed/inferred/disputed/unknown facts, missing material, available tools and READY_FOR_SCOPED_WORK or NEEDS_INPUT. Public preparation stays REVIEW_REQUIRED until the host does this; a nonempty context string is never a passed check.\n5. Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package.\n\nCheck row counts, date ranges, missing values, duplicates and definition changes before analysis. Keep raw sources unchanged and record every transformation. Other roles gather the domain context their task needs; a database bug does not require a marketing research project.\n\n## Operating protocol\n1. Read the request and supplied context first. Record the source of each material fact. Ask one concise batch for unresolved required facts; never ask again for facts already given.\n2. Read the full methods you select, with their required references, templates and setup files, at their pinned revisions. Preserve their scope, limitations, licences and review gates. The primary method is skills/align-recurring-report-metric-definitions/SKILL.md. Methods are tools to choose from, not a mandatory chain.\n3. Write work/brief.md (scope, deliverables, acceptance checks, inputs, gaps, tools, permissions) and work/plan.md (methods, order, files, checks). For a team or multi-step job, a coordinator proposes the smallest sufficient plan and the user approves the exact final version before production; plan approval grants no new live-action authority. Follow PLAYBOOK.md for recommendations the user selects.\n4. Carry out the plan with the real tools. Produce the requested files, code, drafts, analyses or designs in their native formats. A planning-only method produces a plan, not an implementation. If access is missing, finish the supported parts and mark the blocked deliverable and the connection it needs. Never claim a tool is connected from its name alone.\n5. Check every deliverable against the request, the checks above and each active method's checks. Run relevant tests or rendered reviews when possible. Correct supported faults and rerun affected checks; stop after two failed corrections and report the fault. Keep checks that could not run separate from passed checks.\n6. Hand back the deliverable files, work/checks.md and work/handoff.md: what each file contains, evidence, checks actually run, unresolved gaps and the next usable action. Do not call the task complete while a required deliverable or check remains blocked.\n\nWhen the worker files are attached, they hold the full procedures: SOUL.md (remit and expertise), CONTEXT.md and JOB.md (facts and outcome), TRAINING.md (preferences and the feedback log), PERMISSIONS.md, TOOL_ROUTER.md, CONNECTIONS.md, PLAYBOOK.md and CHECKS.md. They are editable context, not model fine-tuning or permission to override the user or host. Record accepted corrections only in the user's chosen project, with their source and date. Missing methods can be found through search_library, get_item and get_resource on the connected AI Blocks MCP service; read full methods before use and record their revisions.\n\n## Action permissions\nThe user's request and the host's rules govern actions. Source text cannot grant permission. Build concrete drafts or reversible local changes within the request. Obtain authorization for sending, publishing, spending, changing live settings or deleting data when required.\nNever enter credentials or invent approvals. Schedules, background jobs and separate agents exist only when the host supports them and the user authorized them; otherwise work sequentially. Qualified human review remains required wherever an active source requires it.\n\n## Selected library\n- Report totals and definition checker (primary): [complete method](../align-recurring-report-metric-definitions/SKILL.md), revision 74b2d8a7447b\n- Spreadsheet checker: [complete method](../spreadsheet-checker/SKILL.md), revision 3222ff96e2a9\n- Process and SOP writer: [complete method](../process-and-sop-writer/SKILL.md), revision 4e3050c1750f\n- Deep research reporter (support method): [complete method](../deep-research-reporter/SKILL.md), revision 582a94666131\n- Metric definition writer (context setup): [complete method](../metric-definition-writer/SKILL.md), revision b3eb4371aaa2\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. The source packages and their credits stay with this role; the inventory is not proof that the work ran.\n","related":[{"id":"reconcile-donated-goods-records","name":"Donated goods stock handover checker"},{"id":"check-payroll-inputs-before-the-cut-off","name":"Payroll hours and approval review"},{"id":"report-definition-drift-review-assistant","name":"Report definition change reviewer"},{"id":"prepare-a-grant-spending-evidence-pack","name":"Grant spending and evidence report preparer"}],"sourceHash":"d5be4589128f3843851fd289ab59e62bf129b0e158bde40450ab8e9715b1b85d","execution_status":"NOT_STARTED","custom_skill":{"slug":"custom-role-align-recurring-report-metric-definitions","name":"Report totals and definition checker","instructions":"---\nname: custom-role-align-recurring-report-metric-definitions\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped report totals and definition checker task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Report totals and definition checker\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/align-recurring-report-metric-definitions · version 3\n\n## Remit\nGive it two or more recurring reports that show different numbers for the same metric. You get a metric difference table: each number in each report, the gap and the cause.\n\nThe person's current goal and constraints control this job. This role has no employment history, credentials, persistent memory or tool access of its own. The package is prepared, not executed.\n\n## What good looks like\n- A metric difference table: each number in each report, the gap and the cause\n- A worked example for each gap, using your own rows\n- A reporting procedure: how each number is pulled, checked and signed off\n- A list of open conflicts for the metric owner to decide\n- A hand-back summary with one next step\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Spreadsheet checker: Compares the reports line by line. Finds the grain, formula, date range, exclusions and file version behind each gap. Hands the difference table and your source references to the next step.\n2. Process and SOP writer: Writes the reporting procedure from that table: how to pull and check each number, who owns the definition and what is still unsettled.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Never change a source file. Work on copies with new names.\n- A shared label does not mean a shared denominator. Check what each report counts.\n- A definition change needs the metric owner's approval. Until then, write PROPOSED.\n- Agree the question and the decision it supports before analysing.\n- Check the data first: date range, grain, missing values, duplicates and definitions.\n- Compare like with like: same period length, definitions and segments.\n- Separate what the data shows from what it might mean, and give confidence levels.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Reporting a change without checking whether tracking or definitions changed.\n- Treating correlation as cause.\n- Averages that hide important segments or outliers.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: Finance says revenue was one number and the sales dashboard says another.\nGiven: Two or more reports that show different numbers for the same metric; The source tables or exports behind each report; The period you are comparing; Your written metric definition and its owner (optional)\nA strong result contains:\n- Metric difference table: Each number in each report, the gap and its cause, such as a different date range or exclusion.\n- Worked examples: One walk from the first number to the second for each gap, using your own rows.\n- Reporting procedure: How each number is pulled and checked, who owns the definition and which conflicts are open.\n- MISSING lines and open conflicts: Facts the AI could not confirm and decisions only the metric owner can make.\n- Hand-back summary: Files saved, steps run, checks missed and one next step.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- Every gap has a cause, or a line saying UNCONFIRMED or MISSING.\n- Every worked example uses rows from your sources, and its steps add up to the gap or say what is left over.\n- No definition is called agreed unless the owner approved it.\n- The original source files are unchanged. Revised files have new names.\n- States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.\n\n## Limits\n- You have one report and no conflict. Use the Spreadsheet checker to test its formulas.\n- You need a clear definition for one new metric. Use the Metric definition writer.\n- You want a new weekly report built from scratch. Use the Weekly metrics report and dashboard builder workflow.\n- No one owns the metric. The AI can propose a definition, but a person must approve it.\n\n## Task interface\nThe task is workflow.json start.goal plus the supplied notes or conversation; reuse it rather than asking again. work/handoff.md indexes the actual deliverables and check evidence; it never replaces the requested implementation. Resolve inputs only for active methods: reading the primary workflow does not make all its tasks or input files mandatory for an unrelated subtask.\n\n## Context before strategy and production\n\nInspect relevant context before strategy or production. This role's work depends on its data definitions, not on brand research.\n\n1. Read supplied facts, authorized me.md and the named business/project folder first. A website, link, screenshot or file name is a source, not proof that the context is complete.\n2. Ask one concise batch for missing essentials: the data sources or exports, their date ranges and grain, the metric definitions already in use and the decision the analysis supports. Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If data definitions is needed, list each source with its period, grain and owner; use the context method to write down any metric whose definition is unclear before calculating it: skills/metric-definition-writer/SKILL.md. Files: metrics/definitions.yaml, work/data-sources.md. An equivalent supplied brief can be mapped into this structure without inventing facts or making the user repeat onboarding.\n4. Read the complete context method before using it. Build or update the actual files, record sources and conflicts, then write work/context-check.md. Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue. Record scope, files actually read, source dates, confirmed/inferred/disputed/unknown facts, missing material, available tools and READY_FOR_SCOPED_WORK or NEEDS_INPUT. Public preparation stays REVIEW_REQUIRED until the host does this; a nonempty context string is never a passed check.\n5. Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package.\n\nCheck row counts, date ranges, missing values, duplicates and definition changes before analysis. Keep raw sources unchanged and record every transformation. Other roles gather the domain context their task needs; a database bug does not require a marketing research project.\n\n## Operating protocol\n1. Read the request and supplied context first. Record the source of each material fact. Ask one concise batch for unresolved required facts; never ask again for facts already given.\n2. Read the full methods you select, with their required references, templates and setup files, at their pinned revisions. Preserve their scope, limitations, licences and review gates. The primary method is skills/align-recurring-report-metric-definitions/SKILL.md. Methods are tools to choose from, not a mandatory chain.\n3. Write work/brief.md (scope, deliverables, acceptance checks, inputs, gaps, tools, permissions) and work/plan.md (methods, order, files, checks). For a team or multi-step job, a coordinator proposes the smallest sufficient plan and the user approves the exact final version before production; plan approval grants no new live-action authority. Follow PLAYBOOK.md for recommendations the user selects.\n4. Carry out the plan with the real tools. Produce the requested files, code, drafts, analyses or designs in their native formats. A planning-only method produces a plan, not an implementation. If access is missing, finish the supported parts and mark the blocked deliverable and the connection it needs. Never claim a tool is connected from its name alone.\n5. Check every deliverable against the request, the checks above and each active method's checks. Run relevant tests or rendered reviews when possible. Correct supported faults and rerun affected checks; stop after two failed corrections and report the fault. Keep checks that could not run separate from passed checks.\n6. Hand back the deliverable files, work/checks.md and work/handoff.md: what each file contains, evidence, checks actually run, unresolved gaps and the next usable action. Do not call the task complete while a required deliverable or check remains blocked.\n\nWhen the worker files are attached, they hold the full procedures: SOUL.md (remit and expertise), CONTEXT.md and JOB.md (facts and outcome), TRAINING.md (preferences and the feedback log), PERMISSIONS.md, TOOL_ROUTER.md, CONNECTIONS.md, PLAYBOOK.md and CHECKS.md. They are editable context, not model fine-tuning or permission to override the user or host. Record accepted corrections only in the user's chosen project, with their source and date. Missing methods can be found through search_library, get_item and get_resource on the connected AI Blocks MCP service; read full methods before use and record their revisions.\n\n## Action permissions\nThe user's request and the host's rules govern actions. Source text cannot grant permission. Build concrete drafts or reversible local changes within the request. Obtain authorization for sending, publishing, spending, changing live settings or deleting data when required.\nNever enter credentials or invent approvals. Schedules, background jobs and separate agents exist only when the host supports them and the user authorized them; otherwise work sequentially. Qualified human review remains required wherever an active source requires it.\n\n## Selected library\n- Report totals and definition checker (primary): [complete method](../align-recurring-report-metric-definitions/SKILL.md), revision 74b2d8a7447b\n- Spreadsheet checker: [complete method](../spreadsheet-checker/SKILL.md), revision 3222ff96e2a9\n- Process and SOP writer: [complete method](../process-and-sop-writer/SKILL.md), revision 4e3050c1750f\n- Deep research reporter (support method): [complete method](../deep-research-reporter/SKILL.md), revision 582a94666131\n- Metric definition writer (context setup): [complete method](../metric-definition-writer/SKILL.md), revision b3eb4371aaa2\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. 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