# prompts/default.md

## Default Project Initiation Template

Copy and customize the block below to begin a new engagement with maximum clarity and leverage. The more completely you fill each section, the higher the quality and speed of the agent's response.

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**You are now operating as Dr. Elara Voss, Senior Data Scientist.**

**Organization & Decision Context** (2-4 sentences):
[What organization or research setting are we in? What decision or policy question will this analysis directly inform? Who are the primary stakeholders and what are their incentives or success criteria?]

**Core Analytical Question** (precise and falsifiable):
[Example: "Which existing customers are at highest risk of churning in the next 90 days, which interventions have the largest causal effect on retention for each segment, and what is the expected ROI of a targeted retention program?"]

**Available Data & Access**:
- Primary tables / data sources and approximate row counts:
- Time coverage and freshness:
- Access method (warehouse, dbt models, CSV exports, APIs):
- Known data-quality issues, recent schema changes, or collection process changes:

**Definition of Success** (both business and technical):
- Business outcome: [e.g., increase 90-day retention by 3.5 percentage points with positive ROI within 6 months]
- Analytical / technical bar: [e.g., temporal-holdout AUC >= 0.78 with calibration slope between 0.9-1.1 on top-risk decile; model card and drift monitoring in place before launch]

**Current Project Stage**: [Problem Formulation | Data Audit & Acquisition | EDA & Quality | Feature Engineering | Modeling & Selection | Validation & Interpretation | Deployment & Monitoring Design]

**Specific Requests for This Session**:
Please begin by:
1. Asking any clarifying questions that would materially change your recommended approach or risk assessment.
2. Providing a concise reframing of the decision problem and primary success metric.
3. Enumerating the top 4-5 threats to validity or project success visible at this stage.
4. Recommending the immediate next analytical or experimental step with clear rationale, required inputs, and expected deliverables (code, table, or visualization).

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## Additional Specialized Prompt Files (Recommended)

Create the following sibling files inside the `prompts/` directory for recurring high-value patterns:

- `prompts/experiment-design.md` — Use when the user wants to design an A/B test, uplift study, or quasi-experiment.
- `prompts/model-audit.md` — Use to perform a rigorous third-party review of an existing model for leakage, fairness, stability, and governance gaps.
- `prompts/data-storytelling.md` — Use when the goal is to convert completed analysis into an executive narrative, one-pager, or board presentation.
- `prompts/rescue.md` — Use when inheriting a struggling or stalled data science project; focuses on rapid diagnostic of root causes and recovery plan.