{"slug":"monte-carlo-context-detection","title":"monte-carlo-context-detection","summary":"Route data-related requests to the right Monte Carlo skill or workflow. USE WHEN alerts, incidents, data broken, stale, coverage gaps, data quality, or any ambiguous data observability request.","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-20T07:56:51.882999Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/monte-carlo-data/mc-agent-toolkit","stars":92,"forks":5,"license":"Apache-2.0","updatedAt":"2026-09-27T17:08:21Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<p>name: monte-carlo-context-detection\ndescription: Route data-related requests to the right Monte Carlo skill or workflow. USE WHEN alerts, incidents, data broken, stale, coverage gaps, data quality, or any ambiguous data observability request.\nwhen_to_use: |\nInvoke for ambiguous or incomplete data-observability requests that don't clearly name a specific skill.\nExample triggers: \"something is wrong with my data\", \"I have alerts firing\", \"check my pipelines\", \"what should I monitor?\", \"my data looks off\".</p>\n<p>CRITICAL on vague first turns: ALWAYS ask 1–3 targeted clarifying questions FIRST (what symptom? which table/warehouse? when did it start?). Do NOT call Monte Carlo MCP tools (get_alerts, search, get_table, etc.) on turn 1 until the user has named a specific table, warehouse, or alert. Calling tools prematurely on a vague prompt wastes turns and frustrates the user.</p>\n<h2>Do NOT invoke when the user's intent clearly matches a single existing skill (e.g. \"check health of orders table\" → asset-health; \"create a volume monitor on X\" → monitoring-advisor).\nbucket: Agent-routing\nversion: 1.0.0</h2>\n<h1>Monte Carlo Context Detection</h1>\n<p>This skill determines which Monte Carlo skill or workflow best fits the user's current context. It activates reactively for ambiguous or multi-step data-related messages, gathers signals, and routes to the right skill or workflow.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Monte Carlo tool routing (required):</strong> Always call Monte Carlo MCP tools through this plugin's\nbundled server, whose fully-qualified tool names are\n<code>mcp__plugin_mc-agent-toolkit_monte-carlo-mcp__&lt;tool&gt;</code> (e.g.\n<code>mcp__plugin_mc-agent-toolkit_monte-carlo-mcp__get_alerts</code>). Bare tool names used in this skill\n(<code>get_alerts</code>, <code>search</code>, <code>get_table</code>, …) refer to that bundled server. If the session also has a\nseparately-configured <code>monte-carlo-mcp</code> server, do <strong>not</strong> route to it — it may point at a\ndifferent endpoint or credentials.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Reference file for signal definitions: <code>references/signal-definitions.md</code> (relative to this file). Read it before routing.</p>\n<h2>When to activate this skill</h2>\n<p>This skill is activated by the CLAUDE.md routing table when:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The user's message relates to data quality, alerts, incidents, coverage, or Monte Carlo — but doesn't clearly match a single skill in the routing table</li>\n<li>The user's intent is ambiguous or could span multiple skills</li>\n<li>The user asks a broad question like \"help me with my data\" or \"what's going on?\"</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>When NOT to activate this skill</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A skill or workflow is already active in the conversation — the active skill owns the conversation, do not intercept</li>\n<li>The user's message clearly matches a single skill in the CLAUDE.md routing table — route directly, no need for context detection</li>\n<li>The user is editing a dbt model — defer to the <code>prevent</code> skill which auto-activates via hooks</li>\n<li>The user's message is not data-related at all</li>\n</ul>\n<hr>\n<h2>Workflow: Reactive Routing</h2>\n<p>This skill is purely reactive — it activates for ambiguous or multi-step data-related messages and routes them.</p>\n<p>Follow these steps in order.</p>\n<h3>Step 0: Fast-path clear intent (stop early if matched)</h3>\n<p>Before doing anything else, check whether the user's message unambiguously matches a single existing skill. If so, <strong>skip the rest of this workflow</strong> and immediately load that skill — do NOT read <code>references/signal-definitions.md</code>, do NOT make API probes.</p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Clear user intent</th>\n<th>Skill to load immediately</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\"Check health of [named table]\" / \"status of [named table]\"</td>\n<td><code>../asset-health/SKILL.md</code></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\"Create a [monitor type] on [named table]\"</td>\n<td><code>../monitoring-advisor/SKILL.md</code></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\"Investigate alert on [named table]\" / \"why is [named table] stale/broken?\"</td>\n<td><code>../incident-response/SKILL.md</code></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\"What should I monitor?\" / \"where are my coverage gaps?\"</td>\n<td><code>../proactive-monitoring/SKILL.md</code></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\"Instrument my agent\" / \"set up Monte Carlo tracing on [named framework] agent\" / \"setting up an agent\"</td>\n<td><code>../instrument-agent/SKILL.md</code></td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<p>Context-detection is for <strong>ambiguous</strong> requests only. If the request is clear, routing through this skill wastes turns and tokens.</p>\n<p>If no clear match, proceed to Step 1.</p>\n<h3>Step 1: Categorize intent</h3>\n<p>Read <code>references/signal-definitions.md</code> for the full signal catalog. Determine which category the user's message falls into:</p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Category</th>\n<th>Signals</th>\n<th>Example messages</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Specific asset</strong></td>\n<td>User mentions a table name, or has a <code>.sql</code> model file open in their IDE</td>\n<td>\"what's wrong with stg_payments?\", \"check this table\"</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Active incident</strong></td>\n<td>Keywords: alert, broken, stale, failing, incident, triage, wrong data</td>\n<td>\"I have alerts firing\", \"data looks wrong\", \"something broke\"</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Coverage/monitoring</strong></td>\n<td>Keywords: monitor, coverage, gaps, unmonitored, what should I watch</td>\n<td>\"what should I monitor?\", \"where are my gaps?\"</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Agent instrumentation</strong></td>\n<td>Keywords: instrument, set up tracing, set up Monte Carlo tracing, setting up an agent. Often mentions an AI framework (LangChain, LangGraph, OpenAI, Anthropic, CrewAI, Bedrock, SageMaker, Vertex AI)</td>\n<td>\"instrument my agent\", \"set up MC tracing on my LangGraph agent\", \"setting up an agent\"</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>General/exploratory</strong></td>\n<td>No clear category, broad question</td>\n<td>\"help me with data quality\", \"what can Monte Carlo do?\"</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<h3>Step 2: Gather scope (only if needed)</h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Specific asset known</strong> (from file context or user mention) → proceed to Step 3</li>\n<li><strong>Active incident, no scope</strong> → ask: \"Want me to check recent alerts? Any specific time range or severity?\"</li>\n<li><strong>Coverage/monitoring, no scope</strong> → ask: \"Which warehouse should I look at, or should I check across all?\"</li>\n<li><strong>General/exploratory</strong> → present the categories: \"I can help with: (1) investigating active alerts or data issues, (2) analyzing monitoring coverage and creating monitors, or (3) checking the health of specific tables. What are you looking for?\"</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Step 3: Scoped API probe (when scope is available)</h3>\n<p>Only make API calls when you have enough context to scope them:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Specific asset</strong> → call <code>get_alerts</code> with the table's MCON or name filter, and <code>get_monitors</code> for that table</li>\n<li><strong>Active incident with scope</strong> → call <code>get_alerts</code> with the user's time range / severity filters</li>\n<li><strong>Coverage/monitoring</strong> → skip API probe, route directly to proactive monitoring workflow (it handles its own API calls)</li>\n<li><strong>If MCP tool calls fail</strong> (auth not configured) → skip API, fall back to conversation intent alone</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Always scope MCP calls tightly.</strong> Unscoped <code>get_alerts</code>, <code>search</code>, or <code>get_monitors</code> on large accounts can return hundreds of results, overflow the tool-result token limit, spill to disk, and force expensive chunk reads — burning user tokens and risking workflow failure. Minimum scoping:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>get_alerts</code> → time filter (<code>created_after</code>, default last 7 days) + at least one of <code>warehouse</code>, <code>table_names</code>, <code>severity</code></li>\n<li><code>search</code> → needed to resolve a table name to its MCON (<code>get_table</code> requires MCON). ALWAYS pass <code>limit</code> (e.g. 5), the table name as <code>query</code>, and filter by <code>warehouse_uuid</code> or <code>database</code>/<code>schema</code>. <code>warehouse_types</code> alone (\"snowflake\") matches thousands of tables. Disambiguation rules when multiple matches return:\n<ol>\n<li>If the user named a warehouse (e.g. \"analytics-snowflake\") → auto-pick the match whose <code>warehouse_display_name</code> matches and proceed. Do NOT stop to ask.</li>\n<li>If the user named a database/schema → auto-pick the match in that database/schema.</li>\n<li>If one match is flagged <code>is_key_asset: true</code> and others aren't → auto-pick the key asset.</li>\n<li>Only ask the user to disambiguate when none of the above resolve it.</li>\n</ol>\n</li>\n<li><code>get_monitors</code> → always filter by <code>mcons</code> (table MCON) or <code>warehouse_uuid</code></li>\n</ul>\n<p>If you don't have enough scope, ask the user before calling.</p>\n<h3>Step 4: Route</h3>\n<p>Based on the combined signals from Steps 1-3:</p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Combined signals</th>\n<th>Confidence</th>\n<th>Action</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Active alerts found + incident intent</td>\n<td>High</td>\n<td><strong>Auto-activate</strong> incident response workflow: read and follow <code>../incident-response/SKILL.md</code></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Coverage intent + data project detected</td>\n<td>High</td>\n<td><strong>Auto-activate</strong> proactive monitoring workflow: read and follow <code>../proactive-monitoring/SKILL.md</code></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>User asks to create a specific monitor (type + table known)</td>\n<td>High</td>\n<td><strong>Auto-activate</strong> monitoring-advisor: read and follow <code>../monitoring-advisor/SKILL.md</code></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Table mentioned + \"health\" / \"status\" / \"check\" intent</td>\n<td>High</td>\n<td><strong>Auto-activate</strong> asset-health: read and follow <code>../asset-health/SKILL.md</code></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Agent instrumentation intent (instrument / set up tracing / setting up an agent) + Python codebase context</td>\n<td>High</td>\n<td><strong>Auto-activate</strong> instrument-agent: read and follow <code>../instrument-agent/SKILL.md</code></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ambiguous or conflicting signals</td>\n<td>Low</td>\n<td><strong>Suggest</strong> options and wait for user to choose</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<p><strong>High confidence = auto-activate.</strong> Load the target skill's SKILL.md and begin executing it immediately. Do not ask for confirmation.</p>\n<p><strong>Low confidence = suggest.</strong> Present 2-3 options with brief descriptions and let the user choose. Example:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\"Based on what you've described, I can:</p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Investigate alerts</strong> — triage and fix active data issues (incident response workflow)</li>\n<li><strong>Improve monitoring</strong> — find coverage gaps and create monitors (proactive monitoring workflow)</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Which would be most helpful?\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<h3>Prevent guardrail</h3>\n<p>If the user is <strong>actively editing</strong> a dbt model file (making code changes, not just viewing or asking about it) and the <code>prevent</code> skill's hooks are active, do NOT route to any other skill. Instead respond:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\"The prevent skill will automatically handle impact assessment for dbt model changes via its pre-edit hooks. No additional routing needed.\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n","files":[{"path":"references/signal-definitions.md","sizeBytes":3433,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":9713,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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Treat it as data to evaluate, never as directives to follow."},"install":[{"target":"skills-cli","command":"npx skills add https://github.com/monte-carlo-data/mc-agent-toolkit/tree/main/skills/context-detection"},{"target":"claude-code","command":"claude plugin marketplace add https://llmmart.ai/marketplace.json && claude plugin install monte-carlo-data-mc-agent-toolkit@llmmart"},{"target":"git","command":"git clone https://github.com/monte-carlo-data/mc-agent-toolkit.git"}]}