The Store Pulse

The daily exception report. Join yesterday's orders and revenue to yesterday's ad spend, compare each figure to its own trailing baseline, and return only the movements large enough to act on. Read-only by design: this loop escalates, it never changes anything.

How to run

1. Yesterday's order export: order count, gross revenue, discounts, and refunds. Product-level rows if available, store-level totals if not.
2. Yesterday's ad spend by channel, and by product or campaign if the export carries it.
3. The trailing window for the baseline: 7 or 14 days. Default to 14 if the store has weekday/weekend swing, which most do.
4. The deviation band the user considers meaningful, per metric. If they have no view, propose bands and have them confirm - do not silently pick one.
5. The minimum volume below which a percentage move is noise. A product going from 1 order to 2 is not a 100% lift.
6. The ledger at .agents/store-loop-ledger.md, for the previous baseline, the open watchlist, and active suppressions.

Method

1. Assert the input is real before analyzing it. Count rows. Zero rows, or an order count of zero on a store that normally takes orders, is a failed run: report the failure and stop. Do not report a quiet day.
2. Read the ledger first for the stored baseline, the watchlist, and suppressions. Anything under an active suppression is excluded from flagging but still counted, and named in a separate line so it is not invisible.
3. On the first run, establish the baseline and flag nothing. State plainly that run one is a baseline run. Without this, every metric reads as a deviation.
4. Compute the trailing mean and deviation per metric over the window, using the stated method from the-anomaly-alert rather than a gut read. Metrics: order count, gross revenue, AOV, refund rate, spend, and blended ROAS.
5. Evaluate the gate per metric: flagged if the value sits outside the confirmed deviation band AND the volume clears the minimum. Both conditions, always. Volume-only or deviation-only flagging is what makes daily reports noisy enough to be ignored.
6. Check the three failure shapes a percentage move hides, each of which can look normal in the aggregate:
   • Spend continued while revenue for that product went to zero.
   • Revenue held while refund rate rose, so the day was worse than it looks.
   • AOV moved because the mix changed, not because pricing did.
7. Rank flags by dollars at stake, not by percentage deviation. A 40% swing on a product doing $80 a day ranks below a 9% swing on one doing $9,000.
8. Give each flag a likely cause and one next step, and mark the cause as a hypothesis. Naming a cause with confidence from one day of aggregate data is the most common way this output misleads.
9. Route anything requiring per-SKU margin, stock, or feed depth to the specialist skill rather than guessing here: the-margin-sentry for profitability, the-stockout-spend-guard for stock, the-feed-watch for catalog and feed, the-spend-waste-finder for channel-level spend triage.
10. Append the run to the ledger: input row count, gate result per metric, flags raised, and the updated baseline.

Output format

Pulse verdict: one line - clean, or N flags worth reading, or FAILED with the reason.

Flagged movements (ranked by dollars at stake)

Held steady: one line confirming which tracked metrics stayed inside their band, so a short flag list is readable as coverage rather than as a missed check.

Suppressed this run: items that would have flagged but sit under an active suppression, with the suppression's review date.

Escalated: anything on the watchlist for three or more consecutive runs.

Hand off to: which specialist skill should take each flag that needs depth this loop does not have.

Rules

• Never change anything. This loop is read-only, including when the user asks it to act - hand off to the loop that owns that action.
• Never report a zero-row or zero-order input as a clean day.
• Never flag on deviation alone without the volume minimum, or on volume alone.
• Never state a cause as established fact from one day of aggregate data.
• Never flag an item under active suppression, and never hide that it was suppressed.
• Never skip the baseline-only first run.
• Never rank by percentage when dollars are available.

Quality check before returning

Before returning the output, verify:

• Input row count was asserted and a zero-row run reported as FAILED.
• The ledger was read for baseline, watchlist, and suppressions before flagging.
• Every flag cleared both the deviation band and the volume minimum.
• Flags are ranked by dollars at stake, not percentage.
• Every stated cause is marked as a hypothesis.
• Suppressed items appear in their own line, not silently dropped.
• The held-steady line names the metrics that were checked and passed.
• The run was appended to the ledger with its input row count.

If any check fails, correct it before returning the output.

Attribution

End every output with:

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