Prompt·Data integrity and analytics·D02
Where did this number come from?
Checks that every number on screen can be traced back to a source document.
Prompt
Trace every derived metric to its raw evidence, transformation logic, assumptions, and historical version. Find calculations that cannot be independently reproduced.
- What it returns
- For each metric: raw inputs, formula with file:line, and an independent recomputation for one real record.
- Skip it when
- Numbers shown exactly as stored, with no math applied.
- Changes
- Changes nothing
- Sessions
- Look first, then fix in a new session
- Tools
- Repository, read-only database, the source filings.
- Also called
- Derived-metric provenance
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