malloy

name	malloy
description	Index of all Malloy skills. Use when user asks "malloy help", "what malloy skills are available", "how do I use malloy", or needs guidance on which Malloy skill to use.

Malloy Skills Index

First-Time Setup

No .malloy files in workspace? Say "model my data" and the agent will orchestrate the full modeling workflow automatically. Make sure the Malloy Publisher MCP tools are configured first.

Skill Reference

Skill	Use when...
skill:malloy-modeling	Building a semantic model from scratch (the modeling workflow driver)
skill:malloy-analysis	Answering a data question or exploring data (the analysis workflow driver)
skill:malloy-discover	Silent data discovery: tables, schemas, distributions, prior art
skill:malloy-scope	Presenting findings and proposing an analytical focus
skill:malloy-define	Proposing the source plan and field definitions
skill:malloy-model	Writing base and joined source .malloy files, review, curate (includes normalized schema support)
skill:malloy-analyze	Exploratory data analysis: profiling, building views and dashboards
skill:malloy-charts	Chart selection and renderer reference for Malloy visualizations
skill:malloy-notebooks	Building Malloy notebooks (.malloynb)
skill:malloy-debug	Fixing compile errors and interpreting diagnostics
skill:malloy-patterns	Finding syntax/pattern docs: YoY, cohorts, percent-of-total, window functions
skill:malloy-document	Adding #(doc) tags for discoverability
skill:malloy-publish	Moving a finished model into a served package (local-to-served handoff)
skill:malloy-lookml-review	Prior-art adapter for LookML (field extraction, derived tables, visibility, docs)

Adapter pattern: Each prior art adapter (LookML, future dbt) follows the same structure: a coordinator SKILL.md plus reference files under reference/ dispatched by phase skills.

Workflows

Two top-level workflows orchestrate the phase and support skills above:

• Model data from scratch: load skill:malloy-modeling. It drives the full pipeline (discover, scope, define, build, review, curate) and routes to the phase skills.
• Answer a data question or explore: load skill:malloy-analysis. It drives exploratory analysis, views, and notebooks, using skill:malloy-analyze and skill:malloy-charts.

Publishing is out of scope for open-source Publisher v1. Self-hosters move a finished model into a served package via git and the host's publish path; see skill:malloy-publish.

Syntax Help

Call malloy_searchDocs with your question. Use skill:malloy-patterns to discover available topics.