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OfficeQA Skill

Retrieval Discipline

• Start by narrowing to the most likely candidate file before reading long passages.
• Prefer targeted search terms that name the exact entity, period, measure, or table concept from the question.
• After a promising match, read only a small surrounding span and verify it matches the requested year, basis, and unit.

Evidence Discipline

• Extract the exact value from the retrieved text before doing any arithmetic.
• Keep track of each operand's period, unit, and semantic role so nearby proxy values are not mixed in.
• If the question asks for a transformed or derived quantity, compute only after confirming every operand.

Final Answer Discipline

• Return the final answer only after one last consistency check against the retrieved evidence.
• Copy the final answer from a checked value, not from an unverified intermediate guess.