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explore from ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst
- Path
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- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260902.b370de6, committed Sep 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 27, 2026
- Size
- 13,142 bytes
- Repository stars
- 322
- License
- MIT
Quick, interactive data exploration without the full pipeline. Use this skill whenever a user wants to explore data, understand what's in a dataset, browse tables or columns, check data distributions, spot patterns, or get familiar with data before analysis. Trigger on phrases like "/explore", "let me explore the data", "what's in this dataset?", "show me what data we have", "browse the data", "what tables are available?", "what columns does X have?", "show me a sample of the data…
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What the file says
# Skill: Explore Data
## Purpose
Quick, interactive data exploration without the full pipeline. Lets users
poke around the active dataset — preview tables, check distributions, spot
patterns, and form hypotheses before committing to a formal analysis.
## When to Use
- User says `/explore` or "let me explore the data" or "what's in this dataset?"
- After connecting a new dataset, before any formal analysis
- When the user wants to understand data shape without a specific question
## Invocation
`/explore` — explore the active dataset
`/explore {table}` — focus on a specific table
`/explore {table} {column}` — deep-dive into a specific column
## Instructions
### Step 1: Load Context (with Fallback)
**Try to load formal context first:**
1. Check if `.knowledge/active.yaml` exists
2. If yes, read it to identify the active dataset name
3. Read `.knowledge/datasets/{active}/schema.md` for table/column reference
4. Read `.knowledge/datasets/{active}/quirks.md` for known gotchas
**If .knowledge/ files don't exist (common for new users), fall back:**
1. Look for data in these locations (in order):
- `data/examples/*.csv` (shared example datasets)
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How to install
mdr add ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst/explore@sha256:661cca13ef81a061The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260902.b370de6, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst · 322 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-30 · branch main
API
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