# crm-data-governance

Configures CRM field-level governance: designates field owners, defines systems of record, and resolves write conflicts between connected apps.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 20300 installs · ★ 1
- Author: Maya-Beth Finotti
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/mbfinotti/revops-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/crm-data-governance/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-14
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/crm-data-governance

## What it does

This skill establishes a catalog of revenue-critical CRM fields. Each field receives a single designated person as its owner and a dedicated system of record. A core rule dictates that empty incoming values must never overwrite populated records, regardless of timestamps.

Implementation begins with an interview. The agent asks about your connected tools, sales cycle lengths, integration capacity, and business model. For B2B, governance manages multiple departments writing to account hierarchies. For B2C, it prioritizes consent tracking and real-time behavioral event data.

Deduplication mechanics stay out of scope. The skill builds field rules rather than merging records. For organization-wide object policies, the repository provides a sibling skill named revenue-data-governance-strategy.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill crm-data-governance -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/crm-data-governance/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/crm-data-governance/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill crm-data-governance -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/crm-data-governance/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill crm-data-governance -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/crm-data-governance/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mbfinotti/revops-skills crm-data-governance
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/crm-data-governance/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill crm-data-governance -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mbfinotti/revops-skills --path skills/crm-data-governance
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/crm-data-governance/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill crm-data-governance -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/mbfinotti/revops-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/crm-data-governance/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- resolve write-precedence conflicts across multiple systems updating CRM fields
- assign a single human owner to each revenue-critical field
- define data freshness SLAs and enforce update schedules
- establish intake and deprecation lifecycles for custom fields

## Example prompts
- Our marketing tool and billing platform keep overwriting CRM fields, help me set up write precedence
- Create a field data dictionary with single human ownership for our core opportunity object
- Design field-level data governance rules for a B2B sales motion

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: crm-data-governance
description: Design and operate CRM field-level governance - who owns each CRM field, which system is authoritative for it, how often it must be refreshed, and how the rules are enforced. Produces a field dictionary, per-field ownership, a system-of-record map with write-precedence and conflict rules, freshness SLAs, an enforcement plan, a field lifecycle, and a governance cadence. Use whenever the user mentions field ownership, single source of truth, system of record per field, data dictionary, stale CRM data, custom field sprawl, "which system wins", or "our CRM fields contradict each other" - even if they never say "governance". Covers B2B and B2C. Do NOT use for org-wide, object-level source-of-truth policy - use mbfinotti/revops-skills@revenue-data-governance-strategy instead.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Maya-Beth Finotti
  version: "1.3.1"
---

# CRM Data Governance

Build and run field-level governance for a CRM. The deliverable is a living rulebook plus a meeting rhythm - "governance dies from lack of a meeting, not lack of a document" (ORM Tech) - built from:

- A governed-field catalog with one named owner per field.
- A per-field system-of-record map with write-precedence and conflict rules.
- Refresh and staleness SLAs.
- An enforcement plan ranked by value per unit of effort.
- A field request-approval-deprecation lifecycle.
- The recurring cadence that keeps all of it alive.

## Ground Rules

- Govern revenue-critical fields, not every field - this is the first scoping decision. A CRM carries hundreds of fields; governing all of them is impossible and counterproductive (practitioner consensus). Start from the sourced field lists in [references/field-ownership-and-dictionary.md](references/field-ownership-and-dictionary.md) and expand only through intake.
- One named human owner per field - "Not a team. A person." (RevBlack). Assign each field to the function that consumes it, not the one that populates it.
- Designate the system of record per field, never per system or object. Every other copy is explicitly derived. Blank never overwrites populated, whatever the timestamps say.
- Reps are never the enforcement mechanism of last resort. "Sales reps cannot be responsible for data entry... their compensation, goals, and psychological incentives all push them toward selling, not data stewardship" (Jared Barol). Prefer automation, integration writes, enrichment, and defaults over required-field pressure.
- Design and operate a standing system. A cleanup without an ownership map, a lifecycle, and a scheduled cadence is not governance; decay resumes the day the cleanup ends.
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