simba-var-workflow

simba-var-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from getsimba-ai/simba-mcp. It costs 61 tokens per session (470 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for long-term vector autoregression, or VAR, models built through Simba MCP and connected to marketing mix models. VAR models estimate how several time-based measures influence one another over time; marketing mix models usually focus on shorter-term effects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and monitor a VAR model, connect it to a completed marketing mix model, and read the combined long-term results.
Why use it?
It helps extend short-term marketing analysis with longer-term effects such as changes in brand equity.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/getsimba-ai/simba-mcp/simba-var-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add getsimba-ai/simba-mcp --skill simba-var-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/getsimba-ai/simba-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 470 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00061 $0.00470
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00235
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00047

Measured 5d ago against content hash 5b7dbfcedc19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

simba-var-workflow scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/simba-var-workflow/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

1. Create

create_var_model with endogenous_vars (the jointly-modeled series — include the KPI and equity/brand metrics), optional exogenous_vars, lags, forecast_horizon, and the long-run-effects settings (base_variable, equity_variables, lre_horizon, lre_ci). var_priors is strictly validated — unknown keys 400.

2. Poll

get_model_status as with MMMs, but expect VAR fits to run LONG — the first fit on a worker includes heavy JIT compilation and can take well over an hour; a retry after an apparent stall is normal platform behavior, not failure. Only failed status is failure; use get_model for the error message.

link_var_model(model_hash, var_model_hash) attaches the VAR to a completed MMM (same owner). One VAR can serve as the long-run layer for an MMM; unlink_var_model detaches it. Deleting a failed VAR via delete_model automatically unlinks any MMMs pointing at it.

4. Read the rollup

get_model_results(mmm_hash, sections="long_run_rollup") serves the combined view: MMM short-term revenue joined with the VAR's long-run elasticity bridge, per channel. Feature-detect: an MMM with no linked VAR returns {available: false, reason: "no_linked_var_model"} — that is a state, not an error. The MMM's other sections are unchanged by linking; the rollup is the only joint artifact.

Channel naming still follows the MMM's activity-column rule; the VAR's own config echo (get_model on the VAR hash) reports endogenous_vars / exogenous_vars instead of channels.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 43 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 5b7dbfcedc19

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simba-var-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository getsimba-ai/simba-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 470 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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