Ai Adoption Report

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name: ai-adoption-report
description: Use this skill to compare flow-metrics JSON outputs and produce a Markdown comparison report -- "how do our flow metrics now compare to pre-AI?", "within Q4 did AI-tagged tickets behave differently from untagged?", "what does Q4 look like across all teams in the program?". Three modes -- baseline (two windows, one scope), cohort (within-window AI vs control), program (roll up many scopes for one window). Read-only -- consumes flow-metrics JSON files, makes no upstream calls, never invokes flow-metrics / jira / jira-align. Writes only the Markdown report and an optional JSON sidecar.
metadata:
  version: "1.0"
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# Skill: ai-adoption-report

A read-only workflow skill that consumes one or more `flow-metrics`
JSON outputs and renders a comparison report. It has three modes —
`baseline`, `cohort`, `program` — all sharing one pairing-and-delta
engine. The skill is deliberately boring: pair files, subtract numbers,
render a table. It encodes no judgment about what the deltas mean and
emits no flags; interpretation belongs to the reader.

## Output rendering

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During tool work, do not narrate routine calls. Send an update only for safety, a blocker, a needed decision, a material scope change, a long wait, or an active host requirement.
When requesting input, ask only for what is needed now. Ask dependent questions one at a time; otherwise group related questions. Offer no more than three clear choices when choices help.
Shape the answer to the facts: one fact needs one sentence; related facts use prose; separate items use bullets; real sequences use numbered steps.
For prose artifacts, use descriptive headings, short resumable sections, one fact per sentence, and no repeated summary. Emphasize at most one load-bearing point per section. Group long inventories instead of truncating them.
Make the result stand alone. Do needed arithmetic, give real dates or times, and say what a file or link establishes instead of making the reader inspect it.
For code and comments, prefer obvious structure and names. Comment on intent, constraints, or trade-offs that the code cannot state clearly.
Use a table, tree, flow, or other visual only when it makes a relationship materially easier to understand.
Report the current state, not the path taken. Omit dead ends, resolved trade-offs, hedges, and advice the user did not request.
When editing maintained prose, consolidate repeated rules and navigation before adding another caveat.
Silence and brevity never reduce the work, checks, or requested coverage. Preserve depth, evidence, constraints, warnings, code, diffs, errors, and exact names, paths, and counts.
Keep verification compact: pass or fail, count, and runtime. Name a suite when it failed or when the name changes what the reader should do.
Before sending, check that the reader can act without counting, converting, opening a file, or asking what a line means.
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Table — When presenting several items that share the same fields, render a Markdown table. Cap at ~5 columns; beyond that, switch to a per-item detail list. Right-align numeric columns.

Key–value / one record — For a single record's fields, use an aligned key: value list, not a two-row table.

## When to use

- **`baseline`** — compare a single scope across two windows (pre-AI
  vs current). Two `flow-metrics` JSONs in, deltas out.
- **`cohort`** — surface the within-window AI-cohort vs control split
  that `flow-metrics` already computed via `--cohort-jql`. One JSON in,
  deltas out.
- **`program`** — roll up many scopes for a single window. N JSONs in,
  per-scope rows + aggregates out.
- **Do NOT** use this skill for live metric computation — that's the
  `flow-metrics` skill's job. This skill consumes `flow-metrics`'
  outputs; it never recomputes them and never reads Jira.

## Invocation

Two equivalent forms (both call the same `ai_adoption_report.main`):

```bash
# Installed package — exposes an `ai-adoption-report` shim on PATH:
ai-adoption-report baseline --baseline A.json --current B.json --output report.md

# Or any environment where the package is on PYTHONPATH:
python -m ai_adoption_report baseline --baseline A.json --current B.json --output report.md
```

From a working copy of this pack, add the package to PYTHONPATH first:

```bash
export PYTHONPATH="$(pwd)/scripts:$PYTHONPATH"
python -m ai_adoption_report --help
```

Every example below uses the bare `ai-adoption-report` form; substitute
`python -m ai_adoption_report` if you're invoking from source.

## Inputs

### baseline mode

```
ai-adoption-report baseline --baseline PATH --current PATH --output FILE [common flags]
```

| Flag | Required? | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| `--baseline PATH` | yes | `flow-metrics` JSON for the prior window. |
| `--current PATH` | yes | `flow-metrics` JSON for the current window. Must share `meta.scope` with `--baseline`; `--baseline.window.to` must be `<=` `--current.window.from` (back-to-back windows allowed). |
| `--include-cohort-breakdown` | no | Append a cohort-vs-control comparison when both inputs carry a `cohort_breakdown` block with matching `meta.cohort_jql`. No-ops with a note when either input lacks `cohort_breakdown`; section omitted with a note when `cohort_jql` values differ. |

### cohort mode

```
ai-adoption-report cohort --input PATH --output FILE [common flags]
```

| Flag | Required? | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| `--input PATH` | yes | `flow-metrics` JSON produced with `--cohort-jql`. Missing `cohort_breakdown` exits 2. |

### program mode

```
ai-adoption-report program --inputs DIR --window FROM..TO --output FILE [common flags]
```

| Flag | Required? | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| `--inputs DIR` | yes | Directory of `flow-metrics` JSON files. Globs `*.json` directly in `DIR` (no recursion). |
| `--window FROM..TO` | yes | Two `YYYY-MM-DD` dates separated by `..`. Only inputs whose `meta.window` matches by string equality are included; zero matches exits 2. |
| `--include-cohort-breakdown` | no | Roll up cohort and control sides independently across scopes that carry a `cohort_breakdown` block. Scopes without `cohort_breakdown` are dropped with a note. Per-team flattened rows are excluded from the cohort rollup (`flow-metrics` v1 does not split `per_team` by cohort). |

### Common flags

| Flag | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `--output FILE` | Path to Markdown output. JSON sidecar is written to the same path with `.md` replaced by `.json` (or appended if no extension). |
| `--format markdown\|json\|both` | Output format. Default: `both`. `json` skips Markdown rendering; `markdown` skips the JSON sidecar. |
| `--overwrite` | Replace existing output files. Without it, exit 2 on collision. With `--format both`, the rule applies to both files. |
| `--title TITLE` | Optional title for the Markdown header. Default: `"AI-adoption report — <mode>"`. |
| `--verbose` | Debug logging. |

**Path rules.** All input paths are taken literally — no tilde
expansion, no env-var expansion, no globbing (except `--inputs DIR`
for program mode, which globs `*.json` directly in `DIR` with no
recursion). All paths must resolve inside the current working
directory or its descendants; absolute paths outside CWD exit 2.

## Outputs

The skill writes a Markdown report and (by default) a JSON sidecar:

- **Markdown** (`--output FILE.md`) — fixed section order: title,
  mode-specific header line, `## Summary`, `## Metric deltas`,
  `## Per-scope rows` (program mode only), `## Cohort breakdown`
  (when `--include-cohort-breakdown`), `## Notes`, `## Provenance`.
  Sections absent for a mode are omitted entirely.
- **JSON sidecar** (`FILE.json`, derived from `--output`) — compact
  twin of the Markdown report. `meta.skill_version` plus per-input
  provenance (basename, scope dict + inferred kind, window, both
  config SHAs, upstream `generated_at`, upstream `schema_version`),
  the full `deltas` block, `per_scope` (program mode), optional
  `cohort_breakdown`, and the sorted `notes` array.

`--format` dispatch:

- `both` (default) — both files written atomically. Pre-flight
  collision check covers both targets at once.
- `markdown` — only the Markdown file is written; sidecar skipped.
- `json` — only the sidecar is written; the Markdown renderer is
  **not** invoked. The `--output` path is still interpreted as the
  Markdown-shaped value (sidecar path is derived from it), so
  `--format=json --output report.md` writes `report.json` and never
  touches `report.md`.

For the full output schema (delta math, JSON canonicalisation, scope
canonical representation, metric row order) see the Outputs section
above and the JSON sidecar description.

## Examples

The three main invocation patterns:

### Baseline: pre-AI vs current

```
ai-adoption-report baseline --baseline outputs/PROJ-Foo-2024Q1.json --current outputs/PROJ-Foo-2025Q4.json --output report.md
```

### Cohort: within-window AI vs control

```
ai-adoption-report cohort --input outputs/PROJ-Foo-2025Q4-with-cohort.json --output report.md
```

The input must be a `flow-metrics` run that was invoked with
`--cohort-jql`; the skill reads the existing `cohort_breakdown`
block.

### Program: roll up across teams

```
ai-adoption-report program --inputs outputs/ --window 2025-10-01..2025-12-31 --output q4-program.md
```

Skill globs `*.json` in the input directory, filters to files whose
`meta.window` matches `--window`, and aggregates.

## Exit codes

| Exit | When |
|---|---|
| 0 | Report written. |
| 1 | Bug in the skill (uncaught exception). |
| 2 | Bad input: missing/extra flags, unreadable file, invalid JSON, missing required meta field, scope mismatch (baseline mode), window overlap (baseline mode), missing `cohort_breakdown` (cohort mode), no inputs matched window (program mode), overlapping scopes (program mode), output exists without `--overwrite`. |

Error messages always name the offending file (basename) and the
specific field or rule that triggered the exit. No bare "validation
failed" messages.

## Reproducibility

The skill writes `meta.generated_at` (UTC ISO-8601 seconds-precision
with trailing `Z`) from the runtime clock at report-write time. For
deterministic-build tests and golden-file diffs, set the env var
**`AI_ADOPTION_REPORT_GENERATED_AT`** to a fixed ISO-8601 string —
the skill uses that value verbatim instead of reading the clock. All
other output is deterministic given the same inputs and the same
skill version: object keys are codepoint-sorted (except the `deltas`
block, which follows the canonical metric row order), floats are
rounded to 4 decimal places at serialisation, and the per-input
`meta.inputs` array is sorted by `basename` codepoint-ascending.
Setting `LC_ALL=C` is recommended for byte-identical reruns across
hosts.

## Read-only contract

This skill makes no upstream calls — it does NOT invoke
`flow-metrics`, `jira`, `jira-align`, or any other skill or external
service. Its only inputs are local `flow-metrics` JSON files; its
only filesystem writes are `--output` (the Markdown report) and its
derived `.json` sidecar (via a temp file in the same parent directory
for atomic replace). The contract is enforced by tests in
`tests/test_t9_packaging.py` that patch the `subprocess` /
`os.spawn*` / `os.system` surface and snapshot the working
directory before and after a run.

## Implementation notes

Key behavioural contracts:

- the full Inputs table and validation rules,
- delta math (zero baseline, null on either side, distribution
  per-percentile rule),
- program-mode aggregation math (throughput-weighted `rework_rate`,
  flow-distribution-denominator-weighted `defect_ratio`,
  median-of-medians for distribution metrics),
- cohort-rollup independence (cohort and control sides aggregated
  separately, never combined into one weighted average),
- per-team flattening rules and overlap detection,
- Markdown rendering rules (Unicode minus in numeric cells, em-dash
  for absent / undefined cells, scope/team name escaping),
- JSON canonicalisation (codepoint-sorted keys, 4 dp floats,
  `deltas` block in canonical metric order).