When raw data arrives in (a, b) form and either value could plausibly be a split, total, or count, the agent's move is not to pick the most likely frame and run the analysis — it's to ask a one-sentence notation question. The cost of asking is trivial; the cost of guessing wrong can be a fictional 30-second improvement or a missed consistency story.
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