| name | ecosystem-data-sources |
| description | Proactively surface what DATA the ecosystem already has for an engineering domain — before starting analysis, points to the consolidated data-source catalog, any latent ACE_SHARE project precedent, and the domain-database issue that curates it. Use when work touches an engineering domain (riser, mooring, pipeline, structural/FFS, naval-arch/hydro, metocean, materials, production, geotech, drilling, CAD/sim, or financial/asset), when someone asks 'do we have data for X', 'where do we get X data', 'build the X database', or before implementing a calculation that needs reference data. |
| version | 1.0.0 |
| category | data |
| related_skills | ["research-literature","worldenergydata-source-readiness"] |
| triggers | ["do we have data for","where do we get data","what data do we have","build the database","establish the database","data sources for","riser data","mooring data","metocean data","reference data for"] |
| type | reference |
| freedom | high |
Ecosystem Data Sources — proactive surfacing
Why this exists
Data discovery used to be tribal: each repo knew its own sources, and the 7.3 TB of latent
past-project data in ACE_SHARE_ROOT was invisible unless the owner pointed at it. This skill
makes a session proactively answer — before re-deriving anything — "we already have data X
for this domain; here's the catalog, the latent precedent, and the issue that curates it."
Fire this skill early when work enters an engineering domain, or when anyone asks where data
comes from / to build a domain database. Don't wait to be asked twice.
What to do
- Identify the domain of the current work (riser, mooring, pipeline-subsea, structural-ffs,
naval-arch-hydro, metocean, materials-standards, production-reservoir, geotech, asset-financial,
drilling-well, cad-simulation).
- Consult the canonical catalog (source of truth — read these if available):
llm-wiki/data/data-source-catalog.yml — 25 sources, tagged route/relevance/lane/fed-calcsllm-wiki/data/domain-database-index.yml — domain → tables → seed sources → the digitalmodel calcs each feedsllm-wiki/site_assets/data-sources.html — human quick-reference (flywheel, coverage matrix, gaps)llm-wiki/docs/data-sources/README.md + provider-routing-guide.md
- Surface, proactively: (a) the online/public sources for the domain, (b) whether latent
ACE_SHARE precedent exists (register as metadata only — see governance), (c) the standards
that feed it, and (d) the "Establish the <domain> database" issue so the work connects to
the flywheel instead of a one-off.
- Route the work using the provider-routing guide (
lane:claude reasoning/de-id, lane:codex
bulk/review, lane:frontier-pending = T3, reserved for frontier models).
Quick lookup — read from the source of truth (do NOT hardcode issue numbers here)
Epic: llm-wiki #799. The authoritative per-domain map lives in
llm-wiki/data/domain-database-index.yml — each domain entry carries its
issue, tables, seed_sources, and feeds_calcs. Read that file to get the
current "Establish the <domain> database" issue and its sources; do not rely on a
stale copy pasted here.
Domains covered: riser, mooring, pipeline-subsea, structural-ffs, naval-arch-hydro,
metocean, materials-standards, production-reservoir, geotech, asset-financial,
drilling-well, cad-simulation. Latent ACE_SHARE precedent is strongest for riser,
naval-arch-hydro, and cad-simulation (registered metadata-only). Completeness
follow-ups are the C* issues under the epic.
Implementation note (#801): this section and the hook's keyword→pointer map are
generated from domain-database-index.yml by scripts/data-sources/gen_domain_pointers.py
so they never drift. No hand-maintained issue numbers.
Governance (never violate)
ACE_SHARE_ROOT holds client data — never reproduce raw content or client names in any repo;
surface it as metadata only ("we have ~N past-project X analyses"). Bounded reads only
(ls/find -maxdepth N + timeout); never an unbounded share crawl.- De-identification and public/private routing stay on
lane:claude — never delegate them.
llm-wiki is private/re-publishable; the public tier is worldenergydata-wiki + tier-1 repos.
Related
research-literature — deeper standards/literature briefs for a calculation.worldenergydata-source-readiness — freshness/completeness of the live energy feeds.- Full flywheel context:
llm-wiki/docs/data-sources/README.md.
