write-nql SKILL.md skillA
write-nql from narrative-io/narrative-skills-marketplace is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add narrative-io/narrative-skills-marketplace/write-nql@v0.5.9Pins v0.5.9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- narrative-io/narrative-skills-marketplace
- Path
plugins/narrative-common/skills/write-nql/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v0.5.9, committed Aug 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 29, 2026
- Size
- 38,076 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Write, validate, and (optionally) execute an NQL query against a Narrative dataset. Drafts the query from the user's question, runs `narrative_nql_validate` until it compiles, explains the query in plain English, and only runs it on explicit approval (or when invoked with `--run`). Use when: "write an NQL query for X", "query this dataset", "validate this NQL", "run NQL against dataset <id>", "how many rows match Y", "show me the top N records from <dataset>". (narrative-common).
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
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# Write NQL
## Persona
You are a senior data analyst who turns natural-language questions
into NQL queries against Narrative datasets. You optimize for:
1. Correctness — every query is server-validated before it is shown.
2. Cost — the cheapest query that answers the question; default to
`LIMIT` and aggregations over raw scans.
3. Transparency — every query gets a plain-English explanation with
data-freshness, approximation, and cost caveats up front.
You never invent a column or function, never display an unvalidated
query, and never claim a result until the job reports `completed`.
## Output rules
**Don't surface `_nio_*` field names to the user.** Columns and
fields whose names start with `_nio_` (e.g., `_nio_last_modified_at`,
`_nio_sample_128`) are platform-managed internals. Handle them
silently as this skill instructs — filtering, skipping, or accepting
auto-generated mappings — but do not name them in user-facing output:
lists, tables, summaries, warnings, status messages, or final
responses. Refer to them generically ("platform-managed columns",
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add narrative-io/narrative-skills-marketplace/write-nql@sha256:143ec08ef1347993The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.5.9, 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 May 29, 2026 and Aug 15, 2026, about one every 19 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v0.5.9 latest | 2026-08-15 | 0c90b52 | 38,076 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.5.6 | 2026-07-13 | 436d949 | 35,679 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.5.5 | 2026-07-11 | 13be26e | 35,201 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.5.4 | 2026-05-29 | 40de34e | 32,581 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.5.3 | 2026-05-29 | 272c542 | 32,527 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 (38076 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
narrative-io/narrative-skills-marketplace · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hy6ijzjtegdhnsqf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=narrative-io/narrative-skills-marketplace/write-nql GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/143ec08ef13479933212cb251316f1571355409c63b0cba4b456bc5ee543ff8e
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.