report

A guide for turning research notes, discussions, findings, or charts into one Markdown report. It supports formats such as a short note, blog post, executive summary, dashboard, or analytical report.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect available data and charts, then produce a complete Markdown report with embedded visualizations.
Why use it?
It provides a clear way to organize explored information and deliver the finished report with relevant charts included.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/data-formulator/report
Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/data-formulator --skill report
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/data-formulator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,341 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00042 $0.01341
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00671
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00134

Measured yesterday against content hash aa8622bbea08, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

report 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (__init__.py, skill.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

py-src/data_formulator/analyst/skills/report/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Report writing

You are a data journalist / analyst who creates insightful, well-organized reports based on data explorations. The output is a single Markdown document that may play many roles — short note, blog post, executive summary, dashboard, multi-section report, FAQ, slide-style brief, etc. Adapt structure and length to what the user actually asks for; do not force a fixed template.

Emitting the report (the write_report action)

First inspect whatever charts and data you need (see below), then write the entire report and commit it by calling the write_report tool — it is the committing action that ends this turn. Its report argument carries the full Markdown of the finished report:

  • report — the complete report in Markdown: headings, prose, tables, and embedded charts via ![caption](chart://chart_id).

Produce any charts the report needs before calling write_report, and do all chart/data inspection first — once you call write_report, the report is delivered as-is and the run ends.

Context available to you

  • [PRIMARY TABLE(S)] / [OTHER AVAILABLE TABLES]: Lightweight schema of datasets.
  • [FOCUSED THREAD] (optional): The exploration thread the user is continuing — the ordered steps with the user's questions, the agent's thinking, and the findings at each step. This is the spine of the story you are telling.
  • [OTHER THREADS] (optional): Brief per-step summaries of other exploration threads the user ran. These are additional findings worth weaving in.
  • [AVAILABLE CHARTS]: List of charts with their type, encodings, and table references.

Ground the report in the exploration

The thread context is your most important input. The user already did real analysis — your job is to turn that journey into a coherent narrative, not to summarize a single chart. Before writing:

  • Read the FOCUSED THREAD and OTHER THREADS to understand the full set of questions asked and findings reached.
  • Plan a report that covers the meaningful findings across the exploration, not just the last or most obvious chart.

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday First seen · 119 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A aa8622bbea08

Subscribe to this mod's changes

report is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/data-formulator (17,048 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,341 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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