How does this skill prevent the common 'AI looking for a problem' anti-pattern?

This skill prevents 'solutionism' by forcing your team to define specific decision units, numerical success criteria, and explicit project cancellation triggers before writing any code.

What exactly is included in the package upon purchase?

You will receive a suite of structured prompts, a set of 12 internal document templates, and the 'gate_check.py' validation script to verify the quality of your artifacts.

Which AI agents or platforms are compatible with this workflow?

The skill generates standard Markdown files and includes a Python-based validation script, making it compatible with any LLM-powered agent that has access to a file system or code execution environment.

Can I skip straight to data analysis or modeling while using this skill?

No, this skill is specifically engineered to enforce Phase 1 discipline; it will explicitly refuse to perform data cleaning or modeling to ensure your project foundation is solid first.

Will I receive updates if the CRISP-DM implementation or validation scripts are improved?

Buyers receive access to all future version updates, ensuring the framing logic and validation scripts remain aligned with evolving data engineering best practices.

How does the automated validation script ensure my business goals aren't too vague?

The gate_check.py script performs a strict audit of your generated files, blocking the process if it detects qualitative adjectives instead of the required numerical targets and deadlines.

CRISP-DM Phase 1 — Business Understanding

Example session with this skill installed

Frame this data project: we want to use satellite imagery and GIS to map urban heat islands in Barcelona.

Read your context and instructions
Compiled the crisp-dm phase 1

Phase 1 — Business Understanding

Refused to proceed as stated. "Use satellite imagery and GIS" is a technology, not a decision. Two blocking unknowns:

Who decides what differently once this exists?
What changes on the ground if the map is wrong?

Rewriting the subject as a decision, then producing the twelve artifacts under phase-1/:

Artifact	Content
`decision-statement.md`	Named role at a named organization; the decision, its cadence, the mechanism it feeds. Not "stakeholders".
`heilmeier.md`	The DARPA catechism, answered — including "who cares?" and "what are the mid-term and final exams?"
`five-whys.md`	Chain from symptom to root cause.
`decision-unit.md`	Spatial, temporal and thematic unit stated as numbers (30 m pixel, annual, census tract) — not adjectives.
`output-spec.md`	Schema, units, CRS (EPSG:25831), license, refresh cadence.
`success-criteria.md`	Numbers with deadline and owner. Adjectives refused — "actionable", "useful", "better" blocked on entry.
`situation.md`	What exists, what does not, who has it.
`risks.md`	Register with a cancellation criterion: at least one row marked "Triggers cancellation = Yes". Its absence is itself a defect.
`glossary.md`	Every contested term defined once.
`product-card-draft.md`	Includes at least two named out-of-scope uses.
`project-plan.md`	Phases, artifacts, owners, dates.
`exit-checklist.md`	Signed. An unticked box means Phase 1 is not done.

Gate run

$ python scripts/gate_check.py --phase 1 --root .
[FAIL] phase-1/success-criteria.md contains adjectives: "actionable"
[FAIL] phase-1/risks.md has no row with "Triggers cancellation = Yes"
[FAIL] phase-1/decision-statement.md: decision-maker is "stakeholders"
GATE 1: FAIL (3 blocking defects) — exit code 1

After fixing

$ python scripts/gate_check.py --phase 1 --root .
GATE 1: PASS — 12/12 artifacts present and non-empty
Next: Phase 2 (data understanding) — not included in this edition.

Outcome

Phase 1 holds. The project has earned the right to go and get data — and can state, in writing, what would make it stop.

Connects securely to your tools. The creator never sees your data.

About this skill

Most data projects fail before the first download — not technically, definitionally. The team builds exactly what was asked for, then discovers at evaluation that what was asked for was not what was needed. This skill blocks that failure at the only point where it is cheap to fix: the start.

What it does. Forces twelve specific artifacts onto disk, each with a binary exit check: a decision statement with a named decision-maker (not "stakeholders"), a decision unit stated as numbers, an output specification (schema, units, CRS, license), numerical success criteria — numbers, deadlines, owners; adjectives are refused — a situation inventory, the Heilmeier answers, a Five Whys chain, a risk register with a cancellation criterion, a glossary, a product card with named out-of-scope uses, a project plan, and a signed exit checklist.

What it refuses. Solutionism ("we want to use LLMs/GIS to…" — that is a tool, not a problem). "Stakeholders" as a decision-maker. Adjective success criteria ("useful", "actionable"). Pre-emptive data hunting. Projects with no written reason to be killed.

Executable gates. Ships with two Python scripts (standard library only): crisp_status.py tells you where the project stands; gate_check.py refuses advancement with a non-zero exit code until every artifact exists. Binary, not vibes.

Built on. CRISP-DM 1.0 (Chapman et al. 2000), CRISP-ML(Q) quality assurance (Studer et al. 2021), the Heilmeier catechism (DARPA), SMART criteria, project pre-mortems (Klein). Full citations included.

Works with any coding agent. Claude Code, Codex CLI, Hermes, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot — anything that reads the Agent Skills convention. Single-agent friendly: per-step "specialist lenses" instead of sub-agent dependencies.

Free component of crisp-for-data — the complete Phase 0–6 suite (data understanding, preparation with a YAML data contract, the analytical core, evaluation with a go/no-go memo, FAIR/DOI release handoff) by the same author. Phase 1 here is the gate all of it runs on.

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CRISP-DM Phase 1 — Business Understanding