connect-data SKILL.md skillA
connect-data from ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst/connect-data@git:20260917.a038f7aPins git:20260917.a038f7a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst
- Path
.claude/skills/connect-data/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260917.a038f7a, committed Sep 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 28, 2026
- Size
- 8,159 bytes
- Repository stars
- 322
- License
- MIT
Guided wizard to connect a new dataset to the AI Analyst system. Use this skill whenever the user wants to add a new data source, connect a database, set up data access, or configure a new dataset for analysis. This skill handles the full connection workflow: choosing connection type (CSV, DuckDB, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, SQL Server, MySQL), collecting credentials, validating connectivity, profiling schema, and setting up the knowledge brain. Trigger this skill…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
> Once a CSV folder is registered, it is SQL-queryable through `ConnectionManager().query(sql)`:
> each file becomes a table named after its file stem (`orders.csv` -> `orders`), and the
> manifest's `files:` list is the table inventory. Every query is auto-logged for provenance.
# Skill: Connect Data
## Purpose
**This is an interactive setup wizard, not a documentation generator.** Guide the user through the actual connection process by executing each step, creating files, testing connectivity, and setting up the knowledge system. Do not just explain what would happen — make it happen.
## When to Use
- User says `/connect-data` or "connect my database" or "add a new dataset"
- First-run welcome suggests connecting data
- After `/switch-dataset` when the target dataset doesn't exist yet
## Invocation
`/connect-data` — start the connection wizard
`/connect-data type=postgres` — skip type selection and go directly to Step 2
**Parameter Handling:** If the user provides `type={connection_type}` (e.g., `type=bigquery`, `type=postgres`), SKIP Step 1 entirely and proceed directly to Step 2 with that connection type already selected.
## Instructions
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst/connect-data@sha256:060cafbae9640f0fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260917.a038f7a, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 28, 2026 and Sep 17, 2026, about one every 5 days.
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| git:20260917.a038f7a latest | 2026-09-17 | a038f7a | 8,159 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260910.c4b91ef | 2026-09-10 | c4b91ef | 8,135 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.b370de6 | 2026-09-02 | b370de6 | 7,528 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.a35ff4b | 2026-08-28 | a35ff4b | 7,536 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.5669b6b | 2026-08-28 | 5669b6b | 6,824 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8159 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst · 322 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gyecbnek5ig2zbmy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst/connect-data GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/060cafbae9640f0f5664b6c78eb2507e5f0e52de0bd5fb37cb98d60c904bbb6a
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