malloy-getting-started

80 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a data skill usually connects to databases or online services with your credentials.

By malloydata/publisher (GitHub) · data · 132 stars · scanned at commit bb8ce0d

First steps for using a Malloy Publisher deployment through its MCP tools. Use when connecting to Publisher for the first time, when you do not yet know the available environments, packages, or models, or when a user asks what data they can explore. Also use for "malloy help" or which Malloy skill to read. Covers verifying the server, discovering data with get_context, and running a first grounded query.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 2 places.

skills/malloy-getting-started/SKILL.md, line 14If you are reading this from a URL and have a shell, run `npx -y @malloy-publisher/skills@latest install` to put every Malloy skill on disk, `reference/` files
skills/malloy-getting-started/SKILL.md, line 20If none of the tools are there, either the server is not running or your client connected before it was. Start the server (`npx @malloy-publisher/server --port

Connects to the internet

The author does not mention this. Expected for a data skill.

Found in 1 place.

skills/malloy-getting-started/SKILL.md, line 20If none of the tools are there, either the server is not running or your client connected before it was. Start the server (`npx @malloy-publisher/server --port

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'malloy-getting-started' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'malloy-getting-started' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named malloy-getting-started already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/malloydata/publisher' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'bb8ce0db61c90d45273e4b65c5ccfc6475a9193a' -- 'skills/malloy-getting-started' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/malloy-getting-started' ~/.agents/skills/'malloy-getting-started' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'malloy-getting-started' ~/.claude/skills/'malloy-getting-started' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-14	`bb8ce0d`	80