Skills, semantic layers, and ontologies make analytics agents work, until they hit the messy data underneath. The durable fix is structural, not more context.
Subtraction at the operational layer, deepening at the modeling layer. The local Postgres sidecar is gone, deploy and execute are ~2× faster, --full-refresh now works at workflow, entity, or attribute scope, and many-to-many relationships are correct and tested across PostgreSQL and BigQuery.
A practitioner methodology for going from "we need analytics" to a working prototype in hours. Five steps, three groups, one information model. Refined across insurance, automotive, telecom, streaming, and market research.