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datachain-jobs

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Use when asked about Studio job analytics — compute hours, user spend, failure rates, cost estimation, cluster usage. Generates and maintains dc-knowledge/jobs/index.md.

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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/datachain-ai/datachain/blob/HEAD/src/datachain/skill/jobs/SKILL.md

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You are now loaded with the datachain-jobs skill. Maintain a jobs analytics file at dc-knowledge/jobs/index.md. Follow the 3-step flow below exactly.

Step 1 — Check Staleness

python3 {skill_dir}/scripts/jobs.py --plan
  • If "studio_available": false → report the error message and stop.
  • If "up_to_date": true → skip to Step 3.
  • If "up_to_date": false → continue to Step 2.

Step 2 — Fetch & Write

python3 {skill_dir}/scripts/jobs.py --fetch [--days N] [--limit N] [--enrich]
  • Use --days N from the user's request if stated (e.g. "last 7 days" → --days 7). Default: --days 30.
  • Add --enrich only when the question requires duration, workers, or cluster data AND enriched: false in an existing index — tell the user it makes one API call per terminal job.
  • If the script fails → report the error and stop.

Write dc-knowledge/jobs/index.md using EXACTLY this format:

---
generated: <generated from script output>
days_covered: <days_covered>
total_jobs: <filtered_count>
failed_count: <failed_count>
complete_count: <complete_count>
running_count: <running_count>
other_count: <other_count>
enriched: <true|false>
duration_note: "Wall-clock duration (submit→finish). Null when enriched=false or job still running."
truncated: <true|false>
---

## Clusters

| Name | Cloud | Max Workers | Default |
|------|-------|-------------|---------|
| <name> | <cloud_provider> | <max_workers> | <yes if is_default else no> |

## Jobs

| Date | ID | Name | Status | User | Workers | Duration | Cluster | Python |
|------|----|------|--------|------|---------|----------|---------|--------|
| <created_display> | <id> | <name> | <status> | <created_by> | <workers> | <duration_str or —> | <cluster_name or —> | <python_version or —> |

Section rules:

  • Omit ## Clusters if the clusters array is empty.
  • Duration cell: duration_str value (e.g. "9000s") when known, — when null.
  • Workers: always a number (workers field, defaults to 1).
  • Cluster, Python: use — when null.
  • Date column: created_display (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC).
  • Rows: newest-first (already sorted by script).
  • If truncated: true, add after the table: _(Results truncated at <limit> jobs. Use --limit N for more.)_

Step 3 — Answer

Read dc-knowledge/jobs/index.md and answer the user's question.

Duration arithmetic

Duration cells contain plain seconds strings like "9000s". Parse the integer before s, sum, then convert:

  • Example: filter rows for user "alice" in the last 7 days, sum all Duration values → total seconds → divide by 3600 for hours.
  • If all Duration cells are — (enriched: false) → say: "Duration data requires enrichment. Re-fetch with: python3 {skill_dir}/scripts/jobs.py --fetch --enrich" and offer to do so.

Failure rate

  • Overall: failed_count / total_jobs * 100 from frontmatter.
  • Per user or per day: count rows matching Status = failed in the table.

Price estimation

When the user asks for cost:

  1. If hourly rate unknown → ask: "What is the instance hourly rate in $/hr? (e.g. 3.20 for $3.20/hr)"
  2. If Workers column is all — → ask: "How many workers per job?" or compute single-worker cost and note it.
  3. Compute per job: duration_seconds / 3600 × rate × workers. Group by user/day/cluster as requested.
  4. Present as a table: User | Compute-hours | Est. cost (@$X/hr × N workers)

Per-cluster / per-user analytics

Filter the Jobs table by the Cluster or User column. Aggregate (Ns) Duration values for totals.