Agent skill

Datasets

by Arize-ai in Arize-ai/phoenix

Understand what a Phoenix dataset is and reason well about its examples, outputs, splits, and how it feeds evaluators and experiments.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Datasets

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Arize-ai/phoenix --skill datasets -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Arize-ai/phoenix datasets --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Arize-ai/phoenix.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/src/phoenix/server/agents/prompts/skills/datasets .claude/skills/datasets && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
datasets
GitHub stars
12k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
983 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
39
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Understand what a Phoenix dataset is and reason well about its examples, outputs, splits, and how it feeds evaluators and experiments.

  • Works in 3 steps: Honest measurement (train / validation /… → Facets (category / difficulty / type).… → Quick iteration (small chunks). A small…
  • Tasks that involve LLM observability
  • SKILL.md covers What an output actually means, How datasets feed evaluators…, Matching a dataset to the… and Splits, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Datasets is an agent skill from Arize-ai/phoenix. Understand what a Phoenix dataset is and reason well about its examples, outputs, splits, and how it feeds evaluators and experiments. Load this whenever a dataset is in view or the user asks what a dataset is, how splits work, what an output "means", or how datasets relate to experiments and evals. This skill governs the judgment; any tool descriptions govern the mechanics.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering, covering LLM observability and LLM evaluation. The repository describes itself as: AI Observability & Evaluation.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve LLM observability
  • Tasks that involve LLM evaluation

Example prompts

  • “/datasets”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Honest measurement (train / validation / test). The classic ML division. A held-out test split that you never tune against gives a…
  2. Facets (category / difficulty / type). Splits like single-hop vs. multi-hop, easy vs. hard, or by topic let you break an experiment down…
  3. Quick iteration (small chunks). A small split is useful for a fast pass in the playground before committing to a full regression run over…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 856100b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Datasets loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 97 tokens; SKILL.md has 983 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~97
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 983 words (~1,624 tokens).

“A dataset is a table of examples. Each example (row) has an input, an optional output, and optional metadata. A dataset is the unit you evaluate a prompt or application against: you run something over every example and compare what…”

— opening of SKILL.md by Arize-ai, Custom licence
name
datasets
summary
Reason well about Phoenix datasets — examples, outputs, splits, labels — and how they feed evaluators and experiments.

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in src/phoenix/server/agents/prompts/skills/datasets of Arize-ai/phoenix.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 856100b

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Phoenix CLIgithub/awesome-copilot40k2 repos~4kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0
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Questions about Datasets

What does Datasets do?

Understand what a Phoenix dataset is and reason well about its examples, outputs, splits, and how it feeds evaluators and experiments. Datasets is an agent skill from Arize-ai/phoenix. Understand what a Phoenix dataset is and reason well about its examples, outputs, splits, and how it feeds evaluators and experiments.

When should I use Datasets?

Datasets fits situations like: tasks that involve LLM observability; tasks that involve LLM evaluation.

How do I install Datasets in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Arize-ai/phoenix --skill datasets -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (src/phoenix/server/agents/prompts/skills/datasets in Arize-ai/phoenix) into .claude/skills/datasets in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Datasets in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Arize-ai/phoenix --skill datasets -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (src/phoenix/server/agents/prompts/skills/datasets in Arize-ai/phoenix) into .agents/skills/datasets in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Datasets in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Arize-ai/phoenix --skill datasets -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/datasets, .gemini/skills/datasets, .github/skills/datasets and .opencode/skills/datasets in your project.

What does Datasets need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Datasets is instructions for the agent only.

Does Datasets access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Datasets safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Datasets use?

Datasets has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Datasets use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Datasets?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Datasets: LLM Trace Review Interface (ai-evals-course/evals-skills, 1.5k stars), Phoenix LLM Observability (Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs, 13k stars), Phoenix CLI (github/awesome-copilot, 40k stars) and Error Analysis (yonatangross/orchestkit, 289 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Datasets?

Arize-ai (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Arize-ai/phoenix, which has 11,744 GitHub stars. The repository holds 39 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: Arize-ai/phoenix on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.