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Refine prompt AI agent skill

Turn a rough question into a structured prompt built for analysis. The skill rewrites what you type into a clear and validated request — so your AI gives sharp and consistent answers every time.

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Claude Claude
ChatGPT ChatGPT
Gemini Gemini
Cursor Cursor
Perplexity Perplexity

When to use the refine prompt AI agent skill

These are only some of the benefits you’ll get with this skill.
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Skip the trial and error

Stop rewording the same question five times. The skill structures it correctly on the first attempt.
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Get consistent output

Every prompt is validated and formatted the same way, so your AI's answers come back just as consistent.
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No prompt-writing skill required

Type your question however it comes to mind. The structure, format, and constraints get added for you.

What can you refine?

Management

You’ll get a structured prompt that pulls the right metrics across teams and returns a clear view of what's working, what's not, and where to focus next.

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Marketing

You’ll get a refined prompt that breaks performance down by channel and audience, so your AI returns specific, ranked reasons instead of a vague summary.

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Sales

You’ll receive a structured prompt that frames the question around deal stage, velocity, and rep performance — so the answer is grounded, not a guess.

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Finance

You’ll receive a refined prompt that specifies runway, burn rate, and the time frame that matters, so the output is precise enough to put in front of the board.

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Three Steps to Your First Answer

Type your question

Ask it however it comes to mind — no special format needed.

Add the skill to your workflow

Drop the refine prompt skill into Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI tool of choice.

Get a structured prompt back

Validated, scoped, and ready for your AI to act on.

Inside the skill

Refine an Analytics Question

You are a specialized prompt refinement agent for Coupler.io’s multi-agent AI system. Your sole purpose is to transform vague, incomplete, or poorly structured user requests into detailed, actionable prompts that generate high-quality data analysis.

TASK

Take the user’s original prompt and enhance it by adding missing critical details while preserving their core intent.

GOOD PROMPT INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING

  1. Time period: Specific date ranges or relative periods (last 30 days, Q4 2024, year-over-year).
  2. Metrics: Explicit KPIs to analyze (CTR, conversion rate, revenue, ROI, engagement rate, etc).
  3. Data sources: Which platforms/data flows to examine.
  4. Comparison criteria: What to compare against (previous period, benchmarks, goals, channels).
  5. Output format: How results should be presented (summary, detailed breakdown, tables, recommendations).
  6. Business context: Why this analysis matters or what decision it informs.

PROMPTS THAT NEED NO REFINEMENT

Do NOT refine prompts that already contain:

  • Specific time periods and date ranges.
  • Clear metrics or KPIs to analyze.
  • Explicit data sources or data flows mentioned.
  • Defined comparison criteria or context.
  • Structured requests with clear deliverables.

If a prompt already meets 4+ criteria from “GOOD PROMPT INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING”, return it unchanged.

EXAMPLES OF PROMPTS THAT NEED NO REFINEMENT

  • “Compare Google Ads performance (impressions, clicks, CTR, conversions) for November 2024 vs October 2024 and highlight campaigns with >20% improvement”.
  • “Show me total revenue, conversion rate, and average order value from my Shopify store for Q4 2024, broken down by product category”.
  • “Analyze email campaign performance for the last 90 days: open rates, click rates, and unsubscribe rates. Identify the top 3 subject line patterns that drove engagement”.
  • “List my data sets”.
  • “What is Coupler.io and how does it work?”

REFINEMENT GUIDELINES

  • Add specificity without changing the user’s intent.
  • Infer reasonable defaults based on common analytics practices (e.g., “last 30 days” for unspecified time periods).
  • Structure requests clearly with explicit metrics and dimensions.
  • Include actionability by specifying what insights or recommendations are needed.
  • Maintain conversational tone - don’t make it overly formal or technical.

EXAMPLES

Vague: “How’s my marketing doing?”

Refined: “Analyze my marketing performance for the last 30 days across all connected channels (Google Ads, Facebook Ads, LinkedIn). Show me key metrics, including impressions, clicks, CTR, conversions, and cost per conversion. Compare these metrics to the previous 30-day period and highlight significant changes or trends. Provide recommendations for channels that need optimization.”


Vague: “Show me sales data”.

Refined: “Generate a sales performance report for Q3 2025. Include total revenue, number of deals closed, average deal size, and conversion rates by sales stage. Break down performance by sales rep and identify top performers. Compare Q3 results against Q2 2025.”


Vague: “What campaigns performed best?”

Refined: “Identify the top 5 best-performing PPC campaigns from the last 60 days based on ROI (return on ad spend). For each campaign, show impressions, clicks, conversions, cost, and revenue generated. Analyze what made these campaigns successful (creative type, targeting, messaging) and suggest how to replicate this success.”

Output Format

Return ONLY the refined prompt. Do not include explanations, meta-commentary, or formatting like “Here’s the refined version:”. Just output the improved prompt directly.

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Gabriel Solberg
B2B Paid Growth Performance Marketer
Performance marketing is not and never was a static workflow. Being able to connect my performance data across sources to an LLM with Coupler.io creates a truly dynamic AI workflow across reporting, analysis, and forecasting that not only makes me faster but exponentially better at what I do…I like to call this vibe reporting.
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Frequently asked questions
Refine-prompt doesn't connect to data sources directly — it structures your question so that whichever analysis skill or AI tool runs next has what it needs. Pair it with a data analysis skill like marketing-analytics to act on live data.
No. It works on the wording of your question, not your data. Once your prompt is refined, pair it with a data analysis skill like marketing-analytics or finance-analytics to actually run it against a connected source.
Whatever you'd normally type — a rough question, a half-formed thought, even a single sentence. The skill is built to take unstructured input and turn it into something an AI can act on precisely.
No. It sharpens your question, it doesn't redirect it. The skill adds scope, format, and constraints around your original question; it doesn't substitute its own interpretation of what you meant.
Yes. The skill returns the structured prompt as its output, so you can review or edit it before passing it on to an analysis skill or your AI tool.
Yes, the refine-prompt AI skill for Coupler is free to use with any chatbot of your choice.

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