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Data · Version 1.3.0 · Reviewed 2026-08-02

Analytics Event Taxonomy Designer

Make data systems more correct and operable for event schema design and identity resolution with evidence, explicit trade-offs, and a verification plan.

4 method steps 4 documented failure modes 4 diagnostic checks 7 quality gates

Designs event naming, properties, identity resolution, and versioning so product analytics stay answerable as the product changes.

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What this skill helps you do

  • Event schema design
  • Identity resolution
  • Taxonomy migration

How Analytics Event Taxonomy Designer works

You provide

Current event list, identity model, and broken reports

It inspects

Anonymous-to-identified stitching before naming problems

It decides

Naming, property, and versioning rules with a migration

You verify

Funnel counts reconcile against a known-good source

What it checks first

Analytics Event Taxonomy Designer designs event naming, properties, identity resolution, and versioning so product analytics stay answerable as the product changes. Use it when the work involves Event schema design, Identity resolution, Taxonomy migration.

  1. The real access patterns, since schema quality is meaningless without the queries it serves.
  2. Cardinality, skew, and growth rate of the key columns.
  3. Consistency and freshness requirements per consumer.
  4. Whether the model preserves history or overwrites it, which determines what questions remain answerable.

Failure modes it recognizes

  • A schema optimized for writes that makes the dominant read pattern a full scan.
  • Skewed partitioning concentrating load on one node.
  • Nullable columns encoding several meanings, making every downstream query ambiguous.
  • A pipeline silently dropping late-arriving records and under-reporting totals.

Answers it will reject

  • Normalizing or denormalizing by preference rather than by measured access pattern.
  • Adding a column for each new requirement until the table encodes multiple entities.
  • Backfilling without a reconciliation check that proves completeness.

Decision rules it applies

  • Design from the read path backward for read-heavy systems.
  • Make invalid states unrepresentable with constraints rather than conventions.
  • Version the schema and treat consumer compatibility as a contract.

Evidence it asks for

  • Profile real query patterns and volumes before proposing a change.
  • Validate migrations with row counts, checksums, and spot comparisons.
  • Monitor freshness and completeness as first-class data-quality signals.

The method inside

  1. Turn event schema design into explicit functional requirements and quality-attribute constraints.
  2. Model the critical path, state, trust, and failure boundaries that govern identity resolution.
  3. Compare viable designs for taxonomy migration against weighted constraints and operational ownership.
  4. Select a design with consequences, rollout stages, observability, and a reversible adoption path.

Deliverables

  • Event schema design assessment
  • Identity resolution decision and action plan
  • Taxonomy migration verification checklist

Evidence requirements

  • Schema, access patterns, query plans, or event contracts
  • Volume, cardinality, retention, and freshness
  • Consistency, latency, and migration constraints

Quality gates

  • Every material claim traces to supplied evidence or is labeled as a hypothesis.
  • The response follows the declared deliverable contract.
  • No execution, access, measurement, or verification is invented.
  • Secrets and personal data are redacted rather than repeated.
  • The user receives a concrete independent verification step.
  • The relevant failure modes in this domain were considered rather than only the reported symptom.
  • No listed anti-pattern was recommended as a solution.

Example task

Input

We have 400 event types with inconsistent naming and nobody trusts the funnel numbers anymore.

Expected output

Distrust usually traces to identity stitching rather than naming. Before renaming anything, verify whether anonymous-to-identified merging preserves pre-signup events, because a broken merge understates every top-of-funnel metric regardless of how clean the taxonomy is...

Boundaries and compatibility

Ideal for

  • Event schema design: produce a decision or artifact grounded in supplied evidence.
  • Identity resolution: produce a decision or artifact grounded in supplied evidence.
  • Taxonomy migration: produce a decision or artifact grounded in supplied evidence.

Out of scope

  • Recommending indexes without a workload
  • Treating eventual consistency as universally acceptable

Agent compatibility

  • GitHub Copilot custom agents
  • Claude Agent Skills / SKILL.md
  • Any instruction-following chat model

Tool policy: Advisory by default. No tools are assumed. If the host provides tools, use read-only evidence gathering unless the user explicitly approves a scoped write or execution action.