Calibration Control

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name: calibration-control
description: "Review calibration control so instruments used for acceptance are in date, and out-of-date tools are not used. Use when the user mentions calibration, gage control, instrument due, calibration overdue, or asks for a calibration control note. Manufacturing and quality skill by Yasir Jilani."
license: MIT
compatibility: Agent Skills standard. No network access, extra packages, or credentials required.
metadata:
  author: Yasir Jilani
  version: "1.0.0"
  domain: manufacturing
---

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# Calibration Control

Review calibration control so instruments used for acceptance are in date, and out-of-date tools are not used.

## When to use this skill

Use this skill when the user:

- calibration
- gage control
- instrument due
- calibration overdue

## When not to use this skill

- The user wants a different domain's specialist skill.
- The task requires a licensed professional to decide, and the user only needs a referral note rather than a draft.
- The request asks you to deceive, evade a control, or hide material facts.

## Professional boundary

Quality and safety procedures are drafts for the site's quality system. Do not bypass a hold, calibration, or safety step.

## Operating boundaries

- Use only information the user provides or files they explicitly ask you to read. Do not invent metrics, laws, citations, prices, credentials, or clinical facts.
- Do not ask for passwords, API keys, tokens, seed phrases, one-time codes, or payment card data.
- Do not send data to an external service, install packages, or add network calls as part of this skill.
- Separate facts, assumptions, and recommendations. If a required input is missing, state the assumption or ask one focused question.
- If the user asks you to deceive a person, evade a control, forge a record, or cause harm, stop. Offer a legitimate alternative.
- Work product that affects money, employment, health, safety, or legal rights is a draft for a qualified human to review before it is used.

## Inputs to collect

- The instrument list
- Due dates they have
- What the instrument accepts
- The quarantine practice

## Workflow


### 1. Step 1

Flag overdue instruments used for acceptance.
### 2. Step 2

Quarantine is the default they stated, or recommend it if they have none.
### 3. Step 3

Do not calculate a new calibration interval from memory.
### 4. Step 4

Record the last result they supplied.
### 5. Step 5

Assess impact only if they know the instrument was used while overdue. Do not invent affected lots.
### 6. Step 6

Name the owner of the recall or the review.

## Output

Deliver a **calibration control note**.

- Purpose of this calibration control note, in two sentences.
- Facts the user supplied, listed separately from assumptions.
- The work itself, in the structure the workflow names.
- Open questions, risks, and the single next action with an owner.
- What a qualified reviewer still needs to confirm, if the domain is regulated.

## Quality bar

- Every number, date, name, and citation came from the user or is marked as an assumption.
- The artifact can be used without reading this skill again.
- Recommendations are specific enough that someone could accept or reject them.
- Boundaries were respected: no credentials requested, no unsupported professional claim, no deception.

## Example

### Scenario

Gus Moretti, plant manager at Redline Parts in Nisku, needs a calibration control note by 30 September 2026. A caliper used for final accept is two months overdue and still on the bench.

### Example data

```text
From: Gus Moretti, plant manager
Organization: Redline Parts, Nisku
Date: 14 September 2026
Needed by: 30 September 2026

A caliper used for final accept is two months overdue and still on the bench.

The instrument list: Line 2; Lot 26-0914; Gauge 7
Due dates they have: 30 September 2026
What the instrument accepts: Gauge 7, last reviewed 14 September 2026. No owner named since
The quarantine practice: Line 2, recorded 14 September 2026. No supporting file attached
```

### Example outcome

**Calibration control note**
To: Gus Moretti, plant manager, Redline Parts
Date: 14 September 2026 · Needed by: 30 September 2026

**Decision**
Quarantines it and asks for a use review rather than inventing which lots moved.

**What the file supports**

| Input | Value | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The instrument list | Line 2; Lot 26-0914; Gauge 7 | Needs confirmation |
| Due dates they have | 30 September 2026 | Carried into the draft |
| What the instrument accepts | Gauge 7, last reviewed 14 September 2026. No owner named since | Carried into the draft |
| The quarantine practice | Line 2, recorded 14 September 2026. No supporting file attached | Needs confirmation |

**How this draft was built**

**1. Flag overdue instruments used for acceptance**

**2. Quarantine is the default they stated, or recommend it if they have none**

**3. Do not calculate a new calibration interval from memory**

**4. Record the last result they supplied**

**5. Assess impact only if they know the instrument was used while overdue. Do not invent affected lots**

**Deliberately not done**
- Using an overdue gage for acceptance.
- An invented interval.
- Invented affected lots.

**Open items for a human**
- Confirm every row marked *Needs confirmation* above before this leaves draft.
- Anything absent from the file stayed absent. No figure, date, or name was supplied from outside it.

Next: Gus Moretti by 30 September 2026. This is a draft, not a sign-off.

## Anti-patterns

- Using an overdue gage for acceptance
- An invented interval
- Invented affected lots

## Related skills

- `incoming-inspection`
- `nonconformance-report`