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Hey #EnergySky we've created a couple of agent skills for exploring and working with PUDL metadata. If you'd like a more conversational interface to our metadata, give them a try! Links and a place to leave feedback here: github.com/orgs/catalys...

github.comPUDL Agent Skills Feedback · catalyst-cooperative · Discussion #5444We've created a couple of Agent Skills to help users navigate the hundreds of tables and thousands of columns of energy data that we publish through the PUDL project. These skills are agent-agnosti...

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We've got a little bit of documentation up here: docs.catalyst.coop/agent-skills/

docs.catalyst.coopClanker Skills - Clanker SkillsSkills developed by Catalyst Cooperative to help clankers understand and work with the Public Utility Data Liberation (PUDL) project outputs and codebase..

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Catalyst Cooperative

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29 July

@simonwillison.net has a workshop he put together for investigative journalists on how to use coding agents for data analysis, which might be helpful: simonw.github.io/nicar-2026-c...

simonw.github.ioCoding agents for data analysis

Catalyst Cooperative

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29 July

If you find a specific bug or have a feature request, feel free to open a GitHub issue: github.com/catalyst-coo...

github.comIssues · catalyst-cooperative/agent-skillsCoding agent skills designed to help users work with PUDL data and the PUDL data processing pipeline codebase. - Issues · catalyst-cooperative/agent-skills

Catalyst Cooperative

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29 July

More general background on agent skills for the unfamiliar: agentskills.io

agentskills.ioAgent Skills Overview - Agent SkillsA standardized way to give AI agents new capabilities and expertise.

Catalyst Cooperative

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29 July

The PUDL skill is built on top of a lower-level Frictionless Datapackage skill that we made to work with any datapackage metadata -- this is a JSON metadata format originally created by @okfn.bsky.social -- you can see the actual markdown instructions here: www.skills.sh/catalyst-coo...

skills.shdatapackage — catalyst-cooperative/agent-skillsExplore and query any dataset annotated with a Frictionless Data Package descriptor (datapackage.json). Use this skill whenever a user wants to discover what…