# Time Series Analysis

A skill that walks your agent through time series work: decomposition, stationarity checks, ARIMA and forecasts in Python. Useful for sales or traffic data.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 605 installs · ★ 371
- Author: aj-geddes
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/tree/HEAD/skills/time-series-analysis/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-03-04
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/time-series-analysis

## What it does

The skill covers data collected over time: trend, seasonality, cyclicity, autocorrelation. It ships techniques for decomposition, differencing, ARIMA and SARIMA models, exponential smoothing. Your agent gets runnable Python instead of vague statistics talk.

The examples rely on `pandas`, `numpy`, `matplotlib` and `statsmodels`. Stationarity is checked with the Augmented Dickey-Fuller test, then ACF and PACF plots guide the model order, and the forecast comes with a confidence interval. Forecast quality is measured with MAE, RMSE and MAPE.

No `statsmodels` in your environment means the code will not run, so check that before asking for a forecast. A Granger causality test is included for multiple series, wrapped in exception handling because it does not always succeed.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill time-series-analysis -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill time-series-analysis -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill time-series-analysis -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts time-series-analysis
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/time-series-analysis/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill time-series-analysis -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --path skills/time-series-analysis
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill time-series-analysis -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/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/tree/HEAD/skills/time-series-analysis/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- split a series into trend, seasonal and residual parts
- test stationarity before fitting a model
- pick ARIMA orders from ACF and PACF plots
- produce a forecast with a confidence interval
- score a forecast with MAE, RMSE and MAPE

## Example prompts
- decompose this sales series into trend and seasonality
- check stationarity and suggest ARIMA orders
- forecast the next 30 steps with a confidence interval

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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````text
---
name: Time Series Analysis
description: Analyze temporal data patterns including trends, seasonality, autocorrelation, and forecasting for time series decomposition, trend analysis, and forecasting models
---

# Time Series Analysis

## Overview

Time series analysis examines data points collected over time to identify patterns, trends, and seasonality for forecasting and understanding temporal dynamics.

## When to Use

- Forecasting future values based on historical trends
- Detecting seasonality and cyclical patterns in data
- Analyzing trends over time in sales, stock prices, or website traffic
- Understanding autocorrelation and temporal dependencies
- Making time-based predictions with confidence intervals
- Decomposing data into trend, seasonal, and residual components

## Core Components

- **Trend**: Long-term directional movement
- **Seasonality**: Repeating patterns at fixed intervals
- **Cyclicity**: Long-term oscillations (non-fixed periods)
- **Stationarity**: Constant mean, variance over time
- **Autocorrelation**: Correlation with past values

## Key Techniques

- **Decomposition**: Separating trend, seasonal, residual components
- **Differencing**: Making data stationary
- **ARIMA**: AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average models
- **Exponential Smoothing**: Weighted average of past values
- **SARIMA**: Seasonal ARIMA models

## Implementation with Python

```python
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from statsmodels.tsa.seasonal import seasonal_decompose
from statsmodels.tsa.stattools import adfuller, acf, pacf
from statsmodels.graphics.tsaplots import plot_acf, plot_pacf
from statsmodels.tsa.arima.model import ARIMA
from statsmodels.tsa.holtwinters import ExponentialSmoothing

# Create sample time series data
dates = pd.date_range('2020-01-01', periods=365, freq='D')
values = 100 + np.sin(np.arange(365) * 2*np.pi / 365) * 20 + np.random.normal(0, 5, 365)
ts = pd.Series(values, index=dates)

# Visualize time series
fig, axes = plt.subplots(2, 2, figsize=(14, 8))

axes[0, 0].plot(ts)
axes[0, 0].set_title('Original Time Series')
axes[0, 0].set_ylabel('Value')

# Decomposition
decomposition = seasonal_decompose(ts, model='additive', period=30)
axes[0, 1].plot(decomposition.trend)
axes[0, 1].set_title('Trend Component')

axes[1, 0].plot(decomposition.seasonal)
axes[1, 0].set_title('Seasonal Component')

axes[1, 1].plot(decomposition.resid)
axes[1, 1].set_title('Residual Component')

plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Test for stationarity (Augmented Dickey-Fuller)
result = adfuller(ts)
print(f"ADF Test Statistic: {result[0]:.6f}")
print(f"P-value: {result[1]:.6f}")
print(f"Critical Values: {result[4]}")

if result[1] <= 0.05:
    print("Time series is stationary")
else:
    print("Time series is non-stationary - differencing needed")

# First differencing for stationarity
````
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