data-outlier-finder

data-outlier-finder is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,444 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for finding unusual numbers, patterns, or contextually surprising results in a dataset. An outlier is a value that differs noticeably from the rest.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review spreadsheets, public records, leaked data, or other datasets for unusual figures and possible stories.
Why use it?
It helps you spot important or questionable findings before drawing conclusions from the data.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the autopunk-media-skills plugin — 187 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review spreadsheets, public records, leaked data, or other datasets for unusual figures and possible stories.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/data-outlier-finder
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 ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill data-outlier-finder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autopunk-media-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 187 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,444 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00032 $0.01444
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00722
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00289
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00144

Measured 13d ago against content hash 32378eace458, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

data-outlier-finder 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 13d 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/data-journalism/analysis/data-outlier-finder/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Data outlier finder

What this skill does

Identifies unusual values, unexpected patterns, and potential stories hidden in a dataset by systematically checking for statistical outliers and contextual anomalies.

When to use this skill

  • You have a dataset and want to know where the stories are before you start reporting
  • An editor asks "what's surprising in this data?" and you need a structured answer
  • You are fact-checking a claim and want to verify whether the cited figure is genuinely unusual
  • You received a data dump (FOI response, leaked spreadsheet, public database) and need to triage it for newsworthy patterns

What you need to provide

Required:

  • The dataset or a representative sample (paste the data, describe the columns, or share summary statistics)
  • What the data measures and where it comes from

Optional:

  • What you expect to find (so the assistant can flag deviations from your assumptions)
  • Known context that might explain outliers (e.g., "2020 data will be distorted by COVID")
  • Whether you want statistical outliers only or also contextual anomalies (values that are technically valid but editorially surprising)

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Identifies the key numeric columns and their expected ranges
  2. Flags statistical outliers — values more than 2 standard deviations from the mean, or in the top/bottom 5% of the distribution
  3. Checks for contextual anomalies — sudden changes between time periods, values that contradict known patterns, or categories that break expected rankings
  4. For each outlier, states: what the value is, why it's unusual, and what reporting question it raises
  5. Prioritizes findings by editorial potential — leads with the outliers most likely to be stories, not just noise

Output format

A numbered list of findings, ordered by editorial potential. Each finding includes:

  • The value and where it appears in the dataset
  • Why it's unusual (statistical context or comparison)
  • The reporting question it raises — what a journalist should check next

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 13d ago First seen · 90 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 32378eace458

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data-outlier-finder is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,444 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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