How to Read Data Agent Benchmarks Before Trusting the Ranking
A six-part measurement-chain checklist for understanding benchmark scope, data, runtime, evaluators, failure taxonomy, and transfer to enterprise work.
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When Is a Data Agent Report Actually Delivered?
Delivery contracts for business readers, analysts, and systems—from evidence packages and accessible artifacts to approval, idempotent submission, read-back, and feedback.
OpenAI Data Analytics Skills as Reviewable Work Protocols
The 15 Data Analytics Skills form a responsibility map from routing and business context through measurement, validation, communication, and publishing.
How Far Data Agent Governance Must Extend
A control chain for identity, retrieval, tools, sandboxes, output, actions, prompt injection, excessive agency, approvals, audit, and incident response.
If the SQL Runs, Can You Trust the Data Agent Answer?
A layered evaluation framework covering source choice, semantics, execution, analysis, delivery, offline regression, shadow testing, and observability.
Why Data Agent Tasks Still Fail When the Agent Can Plan
A practical design for complexity routing, explicit state, step contracts, checkpoints, replanning, recovery, and meaningful multi-agent boundaries.
Why Agent-Generated SQL Must Not Run Directly
A controlled execution gateway for validating, authorizing, limiting, sandboxing, verifying, and auditing SQL, code, and external tool calls.
Why Stronger Data Agents Need a Semantic Layer
Schema describes data shape. This guide shows how metrics, entities, dimensions, business rules, and verified examples turn meaning into executable contracts.