# get_quickstart_skill (/mcp/get-quickstart-skill)



No arguments. On `/mcp` and `/mcp/keys`.

Returns a skill: the Markdown of a `SKILL.md` with frontmatter `name: finic-quickstart`. Agents should call it before anything else, follow it, and can save it as a skill for later. It covers:

* **Access:** signing in, or getting an API key, and setting up the account.
* **Questions for the user:**
  1. Do you want to be able to view your past requests, or turn on Zero Data Retention? (See [Data retention](/concepts/data#data-retention).)
  2. Do you already have data to test Finic with? It needs a good or bad label for each record. The agent may reshape it into Finic's format, and cleans and standardizes it before sending.
  3. What do you want to test: the use case, what counts as good and bad, and what you're trying to detect?
* **Preparing data** in Finic's format ([Example data](/concepts/scores#example-data)).
* **Testing accuracy on the user's data:** hold out some labeled rows, create a score from the rest, score the held-out rows, and measure AUC, precision and recall at chosen thresholds, and calibration. For decisions, run `decide` with a `base_rate` on labeled cases and measure the same.
* **Going live:** API keys, thresholds and calibrating with outcomes.