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name: ab-test-designer description: | Design A/B tests with hypotheses, variants, sample sizes, and analysis plans. TRIGGERS - Use when user wants to run A/B tests, split tests, or experiment with variations.

A/B Test Designer

Overview

Designs rigorous A/B tests with clear hypotheses, variant specifications, sample size calculations, and analysis plans.

Workflow

Step 1: Define the Test

1. What are you testing? (page, email, ad, feature)
2. Current metric: What's the baseline performance?
3. Goal: What improvement are you hoping for?
4. Traffic/volume: How many users/emails/impressions per day?

Step 2: Structure the Test

Output Format

# A/B Test: [Test Name]

## Hypothesis
If we [change X], then [metric Y] will [increase/decrease] by [Z%] because [reasoning].

## Test Details
- **Type**: A/B / A/B/C / Multivariate
- **Primary metric**: [what you're measuring]
- **Secondary metrics**: [supporting metrics]
- **Guardrail metrics**: [what shouldn't get worse]

## Variants

### Control (A)
[Description of current experience]

### Variant (B)
[Description of the change]
[Mockup/wireframe description if applicable]

## Sample Size & Duration
- **Baseline conversion**: [X%]
- **Minimum detectable effect**: [X%]
- **Statistical significance**: 95%
- **Required sample size**: [N per variant]
- **Estimated duration**: [X days]

## Analysis Plan
1. Wait for minimum sample size before checking
2. Check primary metric first
3. Segment analysis: [segments to check]
4. If significant: [implementation plan]
5. If not significant: [next steps]

## Risks & Considerations
- [Risk 1]: [mitigation]
- [Risk 2]: [mitigation]

Quality Checklist

• Hypothesis is specific and falsifiable
• One primary metric defined
• Sample size calculated
• Duration estimated
• Analysis plan prevents peeking bias
• Guardrail metrics identified