Use when the user wants a modern, non-expert-facing visual summary of FAOSTAT data on a single page — an infographic, one-pager, visual summary, explainer card, or shareable graphic for social, pitch decks, or press use. The deliverable is a standalone HTML file with inline SVG (optional PNG/PDF export). Aesthetic — Visual Capitalist / Our World in Data explainer cards / Statista — bold typography, generous whitespace, one hero stat, iconography over chart axes. Do NOT use when the user asks for an analytical brief, policy brief, FAOSTAT brief, or policymaker-facing document → route to `faostat-analytical-brief`. Do NOT use for a data story, article, long-read, or explainer with paragraphs → route to `faostat-story`. Do NOT use for academic papers or dense chart-per-finding reports. Do NOT use when the user wants a standalone interactive chart only → use `faostat-viz`.
Use when the user wants a short, FAOSTAT-style analytical brief — a multi-page PDF policy document in the FAOSTAT house visual style, with a HIGHLIGHTS box, global/regional/country sections, numbered figures with source lines, explanatory notes, and a data appendix. Use when the user asks for "an analytical brief on X", "a FAOSTAT-style brief", "a policy brief", "a FAO-style write-up", or a short policymaker-facing report. Keywords — analytical brief, policy brief, FAOSTAT brief, FAO-style, brief, briefing (policy), policymakers, short report (policy). Do NOT use for journalistic long-reads (use `faostat-story`), academic papers (forthcoming `faostat-scientific-paper`), or single-page visual summaries (forthcoming `faostat-infographic`).
Use when the user asks about agricultural emissions, climate impact of farming, agrifood carbon footprint, greenhouse gases from agriculture, deforestation, forest carbon sinks, temperature change, fertilizer emissions, N2O, land use change, emissions intensity, or the climate-agriculture nexus. Keywords — emissions, climate, carbon, greenhouse gas, GHG, deforestation, forest, temperature, warming, N2O, fertilizer emissions, land use, agrifood, emissions intensity, carbon sink. Do NOT use for a full country food security profile → `faostat-country-profile`. Do NOT use for trend ranking across commodities or countries → `faostat-trends`.
Use when the user asks about a specific crop or commodity — global production, top producers, yield trends, trade flows, or a commodity briefing. Keywords — commodity, crop, wheat, rice, maize, coffee, cocoa, soybean, sugar, cotton, palm oil, production rankings, top producers, yield, trade, global supply, briefing, deep dive. Do NOT use for side-by-side entity comparison → `faostat-compare`. Do NOT use for a country food security profile → `faostat-country-profile`. Do NOT use for trend ranking across commodities → `faostat-trends`.
Use ONLY when the user explicitly asks to compare two or more specific named entities (countries, commodities, or regions) side by side. Keywords — compare, comparison, versus, vs, benchmark, countries, crops, production, yield, area harvested, trade, growth rate. Do NOT use for a global commodity briefing → `faostat-commodity`. Do NOT use for a country food security profile → `faostat-country-profile`. Do NOT use for trend ranking (fastest growing/declining) → `faostat-trends`. Do NOT use for import dependency or supply chain risk → `faostat-trade`.
Use when the user asks for a food security profile, country agricultural overview, country hunger or nutrition assessment, or food system summary for a specific country. Keywords — country profile, food security, undernourishment, production, trade, nutrition, calorie supply, dietary energy. Do NOT use for import dependence and supply chain risk → `faostat-trade`. Do NOT use for a global commodity briefing → `faostat-commodity`. Do NOT use for side-by-side country comparison → `faostat-compare`.
Use when the user wants to discover what data is available in FAOSTAT, browse domains, understand what a domain contains, or is new to FAOSTAT and wants a guided tour. Use when the user mentions a topic and wants to know what FAOSTAT data covers it. Keywords — explore, discover, browse, what data, available, domains, catalog, tour, overview, what can I find, show me, help me understand, new to FAOSTAT, getting started
Use when the user wants a clean, documented tabular export of FAOSTAT data — "export FAOSTAT", "download the data", "give me the CSV / xlsx of [indicator]", "I want the raw numbers", "tabular data pull", "export to spreadsheet". The deliverable is a bundle — one multi-sheet .xlsx (README / Data_tidy / Data_wide / Methodology / Sources) + one tidy-long .csv mirror + a data-dictionary .md. No prose, no charts, no narrative — just the data with full provenance. Do NOT use for reports, briefs, papers, infographics, or visualisations — those skills embed their own xlsx appendices. Use this skill when the data itself IS the deliverable.