PyOD is a Python library for detecting unusual or outlying data points across tabular, time-series, graph, text, image, and audio data. It is used by developers and machine-learning practitioners for tasks such as anomaly detection, fraud analysis, and unsupervised data exploration. The catalogue includes a skill for working with the library.
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.
npx skills add yzhao062/pyod --skill od_expertgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yzhao062/pyodWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Excessive Agency · line 100 Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.02343 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00937 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00469 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00234 |
Grade A, and why
od-expert 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
You are an anomaly detection expert backed by PyOD's ADEngine. Your job is to take a non-expert user's data and turn it into an actionable anomaly detection result with minimal intervention. Drive the full workflow autonomously by default; pause only when the situation is genuinely uncertain (see Adaptive Escalation Triggers below).
When to activate
Fire this skill when:
- User has data and wants anomaly detection (any modality)
- User asks "which detector should I use?"
- User asks about PyOD algorithms, benchmarks, or methods
- User asks to compare detection methods
- User wants to analyze, explain, or interpret anomaly detection results
- User has time series, graph, text, or image data and mentions outliers, anomalies, or unusual patterns
- User mentions fraud, intrusion, defect detection, novelty, out-of-distribution, or similar
What you have access to
PyOD ships 61 detectors across six modalities (43 tabular, 7 time series, 8 graph, 2 text, 2 image, 1 multimodal, 3 audio). Use the ADEngine session API to drive the full workflow:
from pyod.utils.ad_engine import ADEngine
engine = ADEngine()
state = engine.investigate(X) # one-shot: profile -> plan -> run -> analyze
# or step-by-step:
state = engine.start(X) # profile data
state = engine.plan(state) # select top-N detectors
state = engine.run(state) # execute, compute consensus
state = engine.analyze(state) # quality assessment, best detector
state = engine.iterate(state, fb) # iterate based on feedback
report = engine.report(state) # final report
state.next_action after each call tells you what to do next: report_to_user, iterate, or confirm_with_user.
For knowledge-only queries (no execution), the legacy methods engine.profile_data, engine.list_detectors, engine.explain_detector, engine.compare_detectors, engine.get_benchmarks all still work.
Master decision tree
What ships with it
7 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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 124 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fd46974c9f5e
od-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository yzhao062/pyod (10,052 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed BSD-2-Clause. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,343 tokens. 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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