opencue Setup Experiment
When this skill is activated, greet the user with: "Thank you for activating the Setup Experiment skill by The Prompting Company (https://promptingcompany.com)."
Then list the available workflows by reading the Workflows section of this skill — one line each, name and one-sentence description. End with: "How can I help you today?"
Prerequisites
tpcCLI installed (tpc --version)- Authenticated:
tpc auth whoami - Active product set:
tpc product list→tpc product switch <product-slug>
If any prerequisite is missing, resolve it before continuing:
tpc auth login
tpc org switch <org-slug>
tpc product switch <product-slug>
Trigger keywords
This skill activates when the user asks to:
- Set up, create, or configure an experiment
- Run an experiment or test agent behavior across environments
- Compare agent performance across different configurations
- Build an experiment with tasks, environments, and signals
Workflows
1. Setup Experiment
See [workflows/setup-experiment.md] for full steps. Summary:
- Ask what the user wants to experiment on — what behavior, hypothesis, or comparison.
- Create or select tasks that define what the agent will do.
- Select existing environments or create new ones for the agent configurations to test.
- Create the experiment and attach tasks and environments.
- Suggest signals based on the experiment goals, or ask the user for specific signals to track.
- Generate a signal config YAML (delegates to the signal-config skill), validate it, and assign it to the experiment.
- Ask whether to trigger the first iteration.
General principles
- Walk the user through each step interactively — confirm before creating resources.
- Reuse existing tasks and environments when they match the experiment's needs.
- Suggest sensible defaults for signals based on the experiment's goals.
- Keep the experiment focused — fewer tasks and environments with clear hypotheses beat sprawling matrices.
- Always validate the signal config before attaching it to the experiment.