ds-explore

ds-explore is a skill for Claude Code from StamKavid/last-ds-mile. It costs 71 tokens per session (701 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided review of a dataset's patterns before changing the data or training a model. Exploratory data analysis means studying distributions, feature relationships, and correlations while recording hypotheses about what they may mean.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect how features relate to the prediction target, compare candidate features, create a small set of supporting plots, and record findings for later data preparation.
Why use it?
It prevents aimless chart-making and helps reveal useful patterns, suspiciously predictive features, and possible target leakage before modelling.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the last-ds-mile plugin — 29 skills, 17 commands, 3 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect how features relate to the prediction target, compare candidate features, create a small set of supporting plots, and record findings for later data preparation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stamkavid/last-ds-mile/ds-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 StamKavid/last-ds-mile --skill ds-explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/StamKavid/last-ds-mile

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install last-ds-mile, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 17 commands, 3 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 701 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 $0.00071 $0.00701
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00351
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00070

Measured 9d ago against content hash a23eb888f4ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ds-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 9d 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/ds-explore/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ds-explore — Exploratory Data Analysis

Overview

Systematically sweeps a profiled dataset for patterns relevant to the target, logging a hypothesis for each finding instead of plotting aimlessly.

When to Use

  • After /ds-data has produced a data dictionary and integrity findings.
  • Before feature engineering begins.
  • NOT for: acting on findings by transforming features (that's /ds-prep) — this stage observes and hypothesizes, it doesn't change the data.

Core Process

  1. Univariate pass: distribution of each key variable (numeric: histogram and summary stats; categorical: value counts).
  2. Bivariate pass: relationship of each candidate feature to the target, and obvious collinearity between candidate features.
  3. Log a hypothesis for every pattern noticed ("higher X seems associated with target=1, hypothesis: because ...") rather than producing plots with no question behind them.
  4. Flag anything that looks too predictive at this stage (see ds-method's Red Flags) as a leakage candidate for /ds-prep to resolve.
  5. Export the 1-3 plots that actually back the strongest findings from steps 1-2 (not every plot considered) to .last-ds-mile/figures/02-<name>.png — per data-viz-standards, state the hypothesis before building each one. Typically: the target's distribution (and its transform, if skewed) and the single strongest bivariate relationship found. This is the "critical/important only" bar, not exhaustive EDA output.
  6. Write to .last-ds-mile/stages/02-explore.md: key findings, the hypothesis log, leakage candidates flagged for follow-up, and a reference to each exported figure next to the finding it illustrates.

Common Rationalizations

Rationalization Reality
"I'll just make a bunch of plots and see what jumps out" Aimless plotting produces cherry-picked patterns. Every plot should test a stated hypothesis.

See ds-method for the shared Rationalizations that apply to every stage.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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. 9d ago First seen · 64 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A a23eb888f4ba

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ds-explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository StamKavid/last-ds-mile (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 701 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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