# Getting Started > Orient a user to the Economic Mind plugin and connector - what it is, what data it draws on, which skills and connector tools are available, how to trigger them, and what to expect as the product grows. Use whenever the user is new to Economic Mind or asks what it is / what it can do / how to use it / how to get started - "what is Economic Mind", "getting started", "help", "what can the connector do", "what tools or skills are available", "how do I trigger X", "introduce the plugin", or names Economic Mind without a concrete analysis task yet. As part of the orientation, confirm the user is connected to the Economic Mind connector and offer one quick live example. Do NOT use this when the user already has a concrete request (a company, a peer set, a market to size) - hand off to the matching data skill instead. - Skill: `economicmind/getting-started` (Agent Skill) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add economicmind/getting-started` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/economicmind/getting-started/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Productivity - Author: economicmind (https://skillmd.com/u/economicmind) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/economicmind/getting-started --- # Getting started with Economic Mind Economic Mind is a library of **bottom-up market perspectives** and **hard company financials**, served to Claude through a connector. This plugin adds **skills** that turn that data into rigorous, fully-sourced analysis - every figure traces back to its source, and the deliverable is data (Markdown + JSON) that the client is free to style. Your job when this skill runs is to orient the user: explain what's here, show how to trigger it, confirm the connector is connected, and point them to the right skill for their goal. Keep it brief and concrete - a tour, not a manual. ## What you get There are two layers, and it helps to keep them distinct: 1. **The connector** - a remote MCP server (`https://mcp.economicmind.com/mcp`) that exposes Economic Mind's data as tools: curated market reports, and multi-year company financials. Claude calls these tools automatically when a request needs data; the user does not call them by hand. 2. **The skills** - analysis workflows built on top of the connector. Each one is a disciplined pipeline that pulls connector data, works to files, and assembles a fully-sourced deliverable. ## The skills - **`company-at-a-glance`** - a fully-sourced snapshot of one company: multi-year financials, computed margins and growth (each figure footnoted to its formula), plus web-sourced profile facts. Try: *"give me Sperre AS at a glance"*, *"pull the financials for "*, *"what do we know about "*. - **`competitor-benchmarking`** - a comp set across several companies: per-year financial tables plus a cross-company summary of size, growth and profitability, normalized to one currency. Try: *"benchmark , and "*, *"build a comp table for the Nordic fire-protection market"*, *"how does stack up against its peers"*. - **`bottom-up-market-size`** - size a market from an Economic Mind market report (the transparent per-company build) and stress-test the headline against credible cross-checks. Try: *"size the Nordic 3PL market bottom-up"*, *"how big is and how sure are we"*, *"show the market-size buildup for "*. ## The connector tools These are the data tools the skills (and Claude) draw on. Coverage is broad - market reports span many topics and geographies, and company financials run across multiple years, with the deepest depth in the Nordics. - **`search_markets`** - find market reports by topic and geography; returns each market's headline size, scope and content catalog. *"find market reports on autonomous trucking in the Nordics"*. - **`get_market`** - open a specific market report by its slug and read a section (demand, supply, growth, …) in full. *"open that market and show me the demand section"*. - **`search_companies`** - resolve a company name to Economic Mind's record (id, summary, HQ). *"find the company Sperre AS"*. - **`get_company_financials`** - pull a company's yearly P&L (revenue, EBITDA, EBIT, net income, …) in a chosen currency, with each line attributed to its provider. *"pull 's revenue and EBITDA for the last three years in NOK"*. ## How to trigger | Way | How | Example | |-----|-----|---------| | Natural language | Just describe what you want - works everywhere | *"size the Nordic 3PL market bottom-up"* | | Skill by name | Invoke a skill directly | `/economic-mind:company-at-a-glance` | | Connector tools | Called automatically by Claude when a request needs data | - (you don't call these yourself) | Natural language is the primary path and the most reliable across surfaces. Invoking a skill by name is handy when you know exactly which one you want; the exact slash syntax depends on the surface (Claude Code vs. Claude.ai / Desktop). ## What to expect going forward Economic Mind is growing. Expect coverage to keep widening - more markets and geographies, and deeper company and report data - and new connector capabilities to arrive over time. The skills will track the connector as it grows, so the analysis you can ask for will broaden alongside the data. ## Confirm the connector, then hand off After orienting the user, confirm the connector is actually connected before sending them off: 1. **Run one lightweight check.** Make a single cheap call - e.g. `search_markets` with a sample query the user might care about - to confirm connectivity. Keep it to one call; do not probe exhaustively. 2. **On success**, briefly show a real result as a live example ("here's a market I found -"), then suggest a concrete next step: pick one of the three skills with a real prompt. 3. **On an auth or permission error**, tell the user to connect the **Economic Mind** connector and retry - in Claude Code via `/mcp`, or in Claude.ai / Desktop via the connector settings. Don't retry in a loop; once is enough to surface the prompt.