dataset-analyze

dataset-analyze is a skill for Claude Code from TimSimpsonJr/magpie. It costs 109 tokens per session (1,890 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for cleaning and analyzing FOIA or audit-log data from CSV and spreadsheet files. FOIA is a process for requesting government records, and the workflow also produces summaries and read-only SQL access to the cleaned data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to load messy CSV or XLSX files, check data quality, create derived summaries, and make the verified data queryable with SQL.
Why use it?
It helps detect bad encoding, lost values, incomplete exports, and other data-quality problems before results are published.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR} variable.

Part of the magpie plugin — 13 skills, 2 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to load messy CSV or XLSX files, check data quality, create derived summaries, and make the verified data queryable with SQL.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/timsimpsonjr/magpie/dataset-analyze
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 TimSimpsonJr/magpie --skill dataset-analyze
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TimSimpsonJr/magpie

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install magpie, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 2 agents, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,890 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 $0.00109 $0.01890
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00945
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00378
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00189

Measured 9d ago against content hash 26861f308a87, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dataset-analyze 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/dataset-analyze/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

dataset-analyze

Turn a dirty FOIA / audit-log export (CSV or XLSX) into clean, derived data that is both summarized with the deterministic stats module and exposed for read-only SQL querying through an mcp-sqlite server. This is Magpie's structured-data flagship (Track A). It is deterministic and rigor-gated: the pipeline is built to refuse to silently publish on incomplete or misread data.

The pipeline

Run the steps in order. Each is a script under scripts/ (invoke with the project's Python; none import each other). The verified-API contract for every step lives in references/prior-art.md (the Phase 3 research gate) — consult it before changing a library call.

  1. Loadscripts/load_table.py::load_table(path, ...). Read a dirty CSV/XLSX into a clean DataFrame plus a load report. Pin encoding= when the report flags encoding_low_confidence (a single-byte codepage sniff is not trustworthy). The token-boundary TEXT-whitelist preserves leading-zero IDs; the NARROW empty_null turns only whitespace-only cells into NA, so a literal N/A / NULL survives as a string.

  2. Gate on data quality FIRSTscripts/data_quality.py::data_quality_report(df, date_col=..., requested_start=..., requested_end=...). Check truncation BEFORE analyzing: a row count of exactly 2**20 - 1 (1,048,575) means the export was silently truncated upstream — stop and request the gap rather than publishing on a partial slice. The report also surfaces date-window head/tail gaps and per-column anomaly leads.

  3. Derivescripts/derive.py::derive_columns(df, config). Add the conventional derived columns the analysis needs, driven entirely by config (home state, keyword vocab, type map, timezone — no jurisdiction is hardcoded): geo, reason_cat, is_immigration, nets, has_case, base_type, date_et / hour_et / dow_et. Keyword matching is word-boundary (so police / service / justice never trip the ice immigration keyword) and a *** redaction counts as PRESENT.

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 127 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 26861f308a87

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dataset-analyze is a skill published in the GitHub repository TimSimpsonJr/magpie (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 1,890 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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