validate-data

Validate data analyses for trustworthy questions, methodology, and recommendations.

488|76|Updated Jun 2, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/openai/role-specific-plugins --skill validate-data-openai
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: validate-data
Source: https://github.com/openai/role-specific-plugins/tree/main/plugins/data-analytics/skills/validate-data
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/openai/role-specific-plugins --skill validate-data-openai

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve?

Validate analyses before sharing with stakeholders by ensuring the question, data, methodology, calculations, visuals, caveats, and recommendations are trustworthy and explicitly supported by evidence.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Validation of the artifact: inventory questions, data sources, and evidence to anchor the analysis.
  • Methodology, data quality, calculations, and narrative checks to ensure conclusions are credible across reports, notebooks, dashboards, SQL queries, and charts.
  • Reproducibility and documentation guidance to enable auditors or teammates to verify results.

Quick Start

Load data-analytics:user-context in preflight mode and run the validation workflow against your analysis artifact.

Frequently Asked Questions about validate-data

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I validate data analysis before sharing reports with stakeholders?

To validate data analysis, systematically inventory the questions, data sources, and methodology to ensure calculations, visuals, and recommendations are explicitly supported by evidence. This process anchors stakeholder-ready reports and notebooks in proven methodology.

What is data analysis reproducibility and why does it matter for dashboards?

Data analysis reproducibility ensures auditors or teammates can verify results through explicit definitions, baselines, and saved context. It matters for dashboards because documented evidence guarantees the methodology and calculations behind visuals remain trustworthy.

How do I check SQL query methodology and data quality for stakeholder presentations?

Check SQL query methodology by validating the question, data sources, and calculations against explicit evidence. Applying data quality and narrative checks ensures the conclusions drawn from SQL queries remain credible for stakeholder-ready analyses.

Can I use a validation workflow for notebooks and spreadsheets?

Yes, you can apply a validation workflow across notebooks, spreadsheets, SQL queries, and dashboards. This process performs methodology, data quality, and calculation checks to ensure narrative conclusions and recommendations are credible across diverse data-analytics contexts.

What is the best way to ensure caveats and recommendations in an analysis are credible?

The best way to ensure caveats and recommendations are credible is to explicitly support them with documented evidence and methodology checks. Validating the artifact inventories questions and data sources to anchor the analysis before sharing.