LLM North Star Metric Sanity-Check Prompt

Test whether a proposed north star metric can actually be gamed or misleads.

The prompt

Proposed north star metric: {{metric}}
Business goal it's meant to represent: {{goal}}

Check: can a team improve this metric while making the actual business goal worse? Give a concrete gaming scenario.
Check: does it lag or lead the goal, and by how much time?
Propose one counter-metric to track alongside it that would catch the gaming scenario.

Replace the {{fields}} with your own context and tighten the rules to match your domain.

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