malloy-scope

malloy-scope is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from malloydata/publisher. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,466 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A discovery guide for Malloy data projects, where Malloy is a language for describing and querying data models. It examines available tables, fields, relationships, and data quality before suggesting an analysis focus.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarize a package's data, identify useful tables, check row counts and data issues, propose analytical questions, and record the chosen scope.
Why use it?
It prevents modeling work from starting with an unclear question or unsuitable data. The user chooses the analytical direction after reviewing the findings.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to summarize a package's data, identify useful tables, check row…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/malloydata/publisher/malloy-scope
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 malloydata/publisher --skill malloy-scope
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/malloydata/publisher

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,466 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 $0.00040 $0.01466
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00733
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00293
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00147

Measured 7d ago against content hash 34b711374d60, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

malloy-scope 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 7d 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/malloy-scope/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Propose Analytical Scope

When: After you have inspected the model and its underlying data. You have read the package's sources and fields and looked at the data distributions.

Tool names are written bare here - get_context, execute_query, search_malloy_docs. The exact prefixed name depends on the host surface; match each against the tools you actually have.

Goal: Present what you found and recommend an analytical focus. The user selects a direction.

Ground yourself first with get_context: it returns the package's sources, views, and fields, so it tells you what data exists, how it relates, and what is already modeled. Query the data with execute_query to get row counts and spot data-quality issues. Record the proposal and the user's decision in your modeling workflow's modeling-notes.md.

Scope is "which questions", not just "which tables". A single A/B/C question about table inclusion is step 3's architecture question wearing step 2's clothes. The scope proposal must establish what the model is for: a model aimed at recommendation looks different from one aimed at catalog analysis over the same tables.

What to Present

1. Table Summary

Present a table of the discovered tables with key metadata:

Table Rows Columns Role Key Relationships
orders 1.2M 24 Fact FK: customer_id → customers, product_id → products
customers 50K 15 Dimension PK: customer_id
products 2K 12 Dimension PK: product_id
order_items 3.5M 8 Bridge FK: order_id → orders, product_id → products
audit_log 10M 6 Operational No joins to business tables

Classify each table by role:

  • Fact: the events or transactions you measure (orders, sessions, payments).
  • Dimension: the entities you slice by (customers, products, regions).
  • Bridge: many-to-many linking tables (order_items, tags).
  • Operational: ETL, staging, or audit tables that aren't analytical.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 7d ago First seen · 109 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 34b711374d60

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malloy-scope is a skill published in the GitHub repository malloydata/publisher (100 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,466 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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