Catalyst Cooperative Agent Skills

This repository contains experimental agent skills related to PUDL (the Public Utility Data Liberation Project).

• datapackage provides agents context on how to work with the Frictionless Datapackage metadata standard
• pudl is for exploring and working with PUDL open energy data and metadata

Installing

Most LLM agents support skills, but depending on the agent there are many different ways that skills are installed and activated. One fairly generic, agent-agnostic method of installing them is npx skills. If you have npm installed you should be able to do:

npx skills add catalyst-cooperative/agent-skills -s datapackage
npx skills add catalyst-cooperative/agent-skills -s pudl

Agent Skills Resources

For Users

• Using Agent Skills in VS Code
• Extend Claude with Agent Skills
• npx skills (CLI for installing skills)
• Agent Skill Installation CLI
• ⚠️ The Agent Skills Directory ⚠️

For Skills Authors

• The Agent Skills Standard
• Skill Authoring Best Practices
• Equipping Agents for the Real World With Agent Skills
• Claude Developer Guide Agent Skills Overview
• Create a Claude Plugin Marketplace
• Evals for AI Agents
• Testing Agent Skills Systematically with Evals

Agentic (Data) Engineering

• Agentic Engineering Patterns (Simon Willison)
• Zero Degree-of-Freedom LLM Coding using Executable Oracles (John Regehr)
• Dagster University AI Driven Data Engineering (Dagster)
• Best practices for LLM Dagster Development (Dagster)
• What Is Code Review For (Glyph)
• Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work (Simon Willison)

Agentic (Meta)Data Exploration

• Coding agents for data analysis (Simon Willison)

Other related skills

Agent skills defined outside of this repo that we either used in creating the Catalyst Cooperative agent skills, or that we delegate to within the skill.

• duckdb-skills
• marimo-pair
• skill-creator
• dignified-python