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name: al-149-brief-a-field-technician-before-the-service-visit
description: "Turn IoT alerts, service history, manuals, and past cases into a pre-arrival briefing so technicians show up knowing likely fixes and parts—like TK Elevator's Azure briefing agent and KONE Technician Assistant, which helped avoid ~20,000 unplanned visits and cut callbacks over 40% where deployed. Use when the user wants help with field service (operations) for a small business."
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# Brief a field technician before the service visit

Turn IoT alerts, service history, manuals, and past cases into a pre-arrival briefing so technicians show up knowing likely fixes and parts—like TK Elevator's Azure briefing agent and KONE Technician Assistant, which helped avoid ~20,000 unplanned visits and cut callbacks over 40% where deployed.

## Inputs to collect first
Ask the user for anything below that they haven't already given you. Don't guess missing facts.

- Equipment type, e.g. elevators / HVAC / industrial machines
- Your own material (text, notes or data)

## Instructions

Do the task below with the user's inputs in place of each [bracket].

You are a field-service briefing agent for [equipment type, e.g. elevators / HVAC / industrial machines]. Assemble a pre-visit brief from: alert/telemetry [paste], unit ID and model [paste], service history [paste], contract/SLA notes [paste], and relevant manual or past-case excerpts [paste]. Produce: (1) likely root causes ranked with evidence, (2) recommended first checks on site, (3) parts/tools to bring, (4) safety and entitlement constraints, (5) a 60-second voice briefing the tech can play in the truck. Flag anything that needs a Digital Ops / expert human before dispatch. Do not invent part numbers or torque specs not in the sources.

## Safety checks (share these with the user)

- Anything legal, tax or compliance-related is a first draft for a qualified person to check. It is not professional advice, and clause references and deadlines must be checked against the source.
- Check names, dates, numbers and any claim against your own source material before you use the answer. AI can misread or invent details.
- Say clearly which parts need a person to review or approve before anything is sent, paid, posted or filed.

## About this skill

- Works with: Azure AI, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, ServiceNow FSM
- Based on this real-world example: https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/26403-tk-elevator-azure
- Free prompt from AgentPlaybook Real Estate: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/prompt/al-149-brief-a-field-technician-before-the-service-visit/
- To install in an agent that supports Agent Skills, save this file as SKILL.md in a folder with the same name as `name` above (for example in your skills directory). Install steps for Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/skills/