Step 1: Check whether the store data is current
“Is my Hoard sync healthy? When did it last finish? Don’t start one.”If the agent is offline or the last sync is stale, resolve that before treating a price gap as today’s work. The sync-health guide explains the verdict. Checking is read-only; starting a new sync is a separate write.
Step 2: Run the three reads
Ask these in the same conversation:“What suggestions should I review today?” “Where am I priced too high or too low right now?” “What were my biggest price movers in the last 7 days?”All three are reads. They give you Hoard’s current recommendations, your strategy-relative pricing gaps, and the recent movement in your own inventory. None changes a price or triggers a sync.
Step 3: Ask for a work queue
“Rank the five pricing decisions I should review first. For each, show the exact card and printing, why it made the list, the dollar exposure across my copies, the price source and sync time, and the next action. Flag anything with thin or missing market data. Don’t change anything.”This ranking is an assistant’s synthesis of Hoard’s reads, not a guaranteed profit calculation. A large percentage move on one cheap card may matter less than a smaller move across several valuable copies. Ask for the underlying rows when a recommendation seems surprising. An empty result for one mover window or impact threshold does not prove the whole store has no pricing work.
Step 4: Drill into a suggestion
The first answer lists your current recommendations — what kind each one is, which cards or rules it touches, and why it was flagged. Ask about one item or narrow the list:“Which product lines have pricing-rule scope drift?” “Why was this card flagged for a price raise?”
Step 5: Read the answer
Each suggestion type acts a little differently once accepted, so it’s worth knowing what you’re looking at:- Raise price on an unlocked card queues a price-update preview for you to review, same as any other price change.
- Raise price on a card with a locked price applies directly — it bumps the pinned price and keeps the lock, no preview step.
- Move stale inventory and fix rules suggestions are informational; accepting one tells Hoard you’re handling it, it doesn’t change a price by itself.
Step 6: Accept, dismiss, or prepare a rule change
“Accept the raise on [card name].” “Dismiss the stale-stock one, I’m holding those.” “Why was this one flagged?”Accepting or dismissing is a write action. Most price-related suggestions queue a preview you still confirm. A locked-card raise and an Anchor to Sales suggestion that switches a card’s pricing basis are direct-apply actions, so check the suggestion before you accept it. If the three reads show a broader rule problem, do not ask the assistant to make a one-off price override. Ask it to prepare a pricing rule matrix instead. Hoard gives you one review page with the proposed rules and their impact; nothing in that matrix applies until you click Approve and apply.