Agent skill

Minerals Data

by lamm-mit in lamm-mit/scienceclaw

Query and analyze structured CSV datasets on critical minerals production, trade, and supply chains

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedData & Analytics

Install Minerals Data

skills CLI
$ npx skills add lamm-mit/scienceclaw --skill minerals-data -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install lamm-mit/scienceclaw minerals-data --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/lamm-mit/scienceclaw.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/minerals-data .claude/skills/minerals-data && 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
minerals-data
GitHub stars
244
Token cost
~730 tokens
SKILL.md length
161 words
Files
3 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
85
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Query and analyze structured CSV datasets on critical minerals production, trade, and supply chains

  • Tasks that involve CSV and tabular files
  • SKILL.md covers Usage, Parameters, Query DSL and Examples, plus 1 more section
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python3
  • Tasks that involve Supply chain security

What it does

Minerals Data is an agent skill from lamm-mit/scienceclaw. Query and analyze structured CSV datasets on critical minerals production, trade, and supply chains

Its SKILL.md is about 730 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files, including scripts (for example `scripts/query_data.py`).

It sits in Data & Analytics, covering CSV and tabular files, Supply chain security and DataFrames. It works with pandas. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve CSV and tabular files
  • Tasks that involve Supply chain security
  • Tasks that involve DataFrames

Example prompts

  • “/minerals-data”

Requirements

  • Python 3

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ab9aba1. 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

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python3

    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

Minerals Data loads about 730 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 28 tokens; SKILL.md has 161 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~28
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~730

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from lamm-mit/scienceclaw at commit ab9aba1, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© lamm-mit). 161 words, ~730 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/minerals-data/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
minerals-data
description
Query and analyze structured CSV datasets on critical minerals production, trade, and supply chains

Minerals Data — Structured CSV Querying

Query and analyze structured CSV datasets from the critical minerals corpus. Supports listing available datasets, describing schemas, filtering, grouping, and aggregation via pandas.

Usage

List available datasets:
bash
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/query_data.py --list
Describe a dataset:
bash
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/query_data.py --dataset usgs/production.csv --describe
Query with DSL:
bash
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/query_data.py --dataset usgs/production.csv --query "groupby:commodity|agg:value:sum|sort:value:desc|head:10"
Filter with pandas expression:
bash
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/query_data.py --dataset usgs/production.csv --filter "year >= 2022"
Combine filter and query:
bash
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/query_data.py --dataset usgs/trade.csv --filter "commodity == 'lithium'" --query "groupby:country|agg:value:sum|sort:value:desc|head:5"

Parameters

ParameterDescriptionDefault
--listList all available CSV datasets-
--datasetPath to CSV file (relative to corpus dir)-
--describeShow schema, dtypes, sample rows, statistics-
--queryPipe-delimited DSL for pandas operations-
--filterPandas query expression for filtering-
--corpus-dirDirectory containing data files~/critical-minerals-data/
--formatOutput format: table, json, csvtable

Query DSL

Pipe-delimited operations that map to pandas:

OperationSyntaxExample
Group bygroupby:colgroupby:commodity
Aggregateagg:col:funcagg:value:sum
Sortsort:col:dirsort:value:desc
Headhead:nhead:10
Select columnsselect:col1,col2select:commodity,value

Functions: sum, mean, count, min, max, median, std

Examples

bash
# Top producing countries for lithium
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/query_data.py --dataset usgs/production.csv \
  --filter "commodity == 'lithium'" \
  --query "groupby:country|agg:value:sum|sort:value:desc|head:10"

# Year-over-year trade data
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/query_data.py --dataset comtrade/exports.csv \
  --query "groupby:year|agg:value:sum|sort:year:asc"

# Dataset overview
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/query_data.py --dataset worldbank/indicators.csv --describe

Notes

  • Requires pandas>=2.0.0 (already in ScienceClaw requirements)
  • CSV catalog is cached at ~/critical-minerals-data/.csv_catalog.json
  • Handles encoding fallbacks: UTF-8, Latin-1, CP1252
  • Filter expressions are sanitized to prevent code injection

© lamm-mit, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (scripts) in skills/minerals-data of lamm-mit/scienceclaw.

  • SKILL.md
  • requirements.txt
  • scripts/query_data.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ab9aba1

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Questions about Minerals Data

What does Minerals Data do?

Query and analyze structured CSV datasets on critical minerals production, trade, and supply chains. Minerals Data is an agent skill from lamm-mit/scienceclaw.

When should I use Minerals Data?

Minerals Data fits situations like: tasks that involve CSV and tabular files; tasks that involve Supply chain security; tasks that involve DataFrames.

How do I install Minerals Data in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add lamm-mit/scienceclaw --skill minerals-data -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/minerals-data in lamm-mit/scienceclaw) into .claude/skills/minerals-data in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Minerals Data in Codex?

Run `npx skills add lamm-mit/scienceclaw --skill minerals-data -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/minerals-data in lamm-mit/scienceclaw) into .agents/skills/minerals-data in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Minerals Data 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 lamm-mit/scienceclaw --skill minerals-data -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/minerals-data, .gemini/skills/minerals-data, .github/skills/minerals-data and .opencode/skills/minerals-data in your project.

What does Minerals Data need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Minerals Data needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python3). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Minerals Data 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 Minerals Data 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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Minerals Data use?

Minerals Data is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Minerals Data use?

About 730 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.9k 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 Minerals Data?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Minerals Data: CSV Data Summarizer (coffeefuelbump/csv-data-summarizer-claude-skill, 468 stars), CSV Processing (benchflow-ai/skillsbench, 1.8k stars), Verified Data Analysis with pandas (pipeshub-ai/pipeshub-ai, 3.8k stars) and Vaex Out-of-Core DataFrames (davila7/claude-code-templates, 32k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Minerals Data?

lamm-mit (a GitHub user) maintains it in lamm-mit/scienceclaw, which has 244 GitHub stars. The repository holds 85 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 21, 2026.

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