faostat-explore

faostat-explore is a skill for Claude Code from berba-q/faostat-skills. It costs 103 tokens per session (1,474 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided way to explore FAOSTAT, the Food and Agriculture Organization's catalog of agricultural and food statistics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to browse data domains, inspect available dimensions and sample data, and identify datasets for analysis.
Why use it?
It helps people who do not know which datasets or subject areas FAOSTAT contains find a suitable starting point.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the faostat-skills plugin — 14 skills, 14 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to browse data domains, inspect available dimensions and sample data, and identify datasets for analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/berba-q/faostat-skills/explore
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add berba-q/faostat-skills --skill explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/berba-q/faostat-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install faostat-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 14 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,474 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00103 $0.01474
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00737
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00295
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00147

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2655792746c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

faostat-explore scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/explore/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

FAOSTAT Explorer

Guided discovery of FAOSTAT's data catalog. Help users understand what data is available, browse domains, see sample data, and find the right starting point for their analysis.

Prerequisites

Before starting, confirm the FAOSTAT MCP tools are available by checking that tools faostat_list_groups, faostat_list_domains, faostat_get_dimensions, faostat_get_data, and faostat_get_metadata are accessible. If they are not, inform the user that this skill requires the FAOSTAT MCP server to be connected and stop.

Workflow

Step 1 — Understand the User's Interest

Ask the user: "What topic are you interested in exploring?" Examples:

  • A subject area: "fisheries", "fertilizers", "food prices", "livestock", "trade"
  • A question: "What data does FAO have about rice production?"
  • A broad theme: "climate and agriculture", "food security in Africa"
  • Or just: "Show me what's available" (full catalog overview)

If the user provides their interest in their initial message, proceed without re-asking.

Step 2 — Map the FAOSTAT Catalog

Call faostat_list_groups(lang='en') to retrieve all domain groups in FAOSTAT.

Present the groups to the user in a clear, organized list. FAOSTAT organizes data into groups such as:

  • Production
  • Trade
  • Food Security
  • Food Balances
  • Prices
  • Inputs
  • Population
  • Investment
  • Macro-Statistics
  • Emissions (Agriculture, Land Use, Forestry)
  • Climate Change
  • and more

If the user gave a specific topic, identify which group(s) are most relevant. If the user asked for a full overview, present all groups briefly.

Step 3 — Drill Into Relevant Domain Groups

For each relevant group, call faostat_list_domains(group_code, lang='en') to list the specific domains within that group.

Present the domains with their codes and descriptions. For example, within the Production group:

  • QCL — Crops and Livestock Products
  • QI — Production Indices
  • etc.

If the user's topic spans multiple groups, show domains from all relevant groups.

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 124 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 2655792746c7

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faostat-explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository berba-q/faostat-skills (7 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,474 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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