Agent skill

Data And Evaluation

by VectorSpaceLab in VectorSpaceLab/AREX-Skill

A skill your agent uses when preparing or validating ColBERT collection/query/ranking/qrels/LoTTE data, evaluating MSMARCO-style or LoTTE rankings, converting documents into passage TSVs, or…

MITAuto-check passedDocuments & Office

Install Data And Evaluation

skills CLI
$ npx skills add VectorSpaceLab/AREX-Skill --skill data-and-evaluation -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install VectorSpaceLab/AREX-Skill data-and-evaluation --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/VectorSpaceLab/AREX-Skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/repositories/repo-skills/colbert/sub-skills/data-and-evaluation .claude/skills/data-and-evaluation && 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
data-and-evaluation
GitHub stars
328
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
361 words
Files
8 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo
157
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when preparing or validating ColBERT collection/query/ranking/qrels/LoTTE data, evaluating MSMARCO-style or LoTTE rankings, converting documents into passage TSVs, or…

  • Validating ColBERT collection/query/ranking/qrels/LoTTE data
  • SKILL.md covers Quick Start, References and Scripts and Operating Notes
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python
  • Evaluating MSMARCO-style

What it does

Data And Evaluation is an agent skill from VectorSpaceLab/AREX-Skill. Use when preparing or validating ColBERT collection/query/ranking/qrels/LoTTE data, evaluating MSMARCO-style or LoTTE rankings, converting documents into passage TSVs, or troubleshooting data-format utility workflows. Excludes running retrieval, index updates, and training mechanics.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 9 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `references/api-reference.md`, `references/data-formats.md` and `references/evaluation-and-rankings.md`).

It sits in Documents & Office, covering CSV and tabular files. The repository describes itself as: A Skill Library for Automated Machine Learning. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Validating ColBERT collection/query/ranking/qrels/LoTTE data
  • Evaluating MSMARCO-style
  • Converting documents into passage TSVs
  • Troubleshooting data-format utility workflows

Example prompts

  • “/data-and-evaluation”

Requirements

  • Python 3

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ac3fe1a. 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 3 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python

    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

Data And Evaluation loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~7.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 361 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~76
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~7.1k

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 VectorSpaceLab/AREX-Skill at commit ac3fe1a, republished under its MIT licence (© VectorSpaceLab). 361 words, ~1,068 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/data-and-evaluation/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 7 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
data-and-evaluation
description
Use when preparing or validating ColBERT collection/query/ranking/qrels/LoTTE data, evaluating MSMARCO-style or LoTTE rankings, converting documents into passage TSVs, or troubleshooting data-format utility workflows. Excludes running retrieval, index updates, and training mechanics.
disable-model-invocation
true
metadata.disco-role
operating
license
MIT

ColBERT Data and Evaluation

Use this sub-skill when a task is about ColBERT data artifacts rather than model execution:

  • Prepare or validate collection.tsv, queries.tsv, ranking.tsv, qrels, LoTTE QA JSONL, or tiny fixtures.
  • Read, write, or reason about Collection, Queries, and Ranking objects.
  • Evaluate MSMARCO-style rankings with MRR@10 and Recall@k.
  • Evaluate or debug LoTTE-style Success@k layouts and ranking files.
  • Adapt preprocessing workflows such as converting document TSV rows into passage TSV rows.
  • Split, merge, inspect, or annotate ranking files before downstream evaluation.

For retrieval that creates rankings from an index, route to indexing-and-search. For training triples, hard-negative distillation, or trainer input validation beyond basic file shape, route to training-and-distillation.

Quick Start

Validate core files before indexing, searching, training, or evaluation:

bash
python scripts/validate_colbert_data.py --collection collection.tsv --queries queries.tsv --ranking ranking.tsv --qrels qrels.tsv

Require LoTTE-compatible scored rankings and QA JSONL:

bash
python scripts/validate_colbert_data.py --ranking writing.search.ranking.tsv --lotte-qas qas.search.jsonl --require-score --require-sequential-qids

Convert document TSV rows into a standard passage collection with deterministic whitespace splitting:

bash
python scripts/prepare_collection_tsv.py --input documents.tsv --output collection.tsv --format docid,text --nwords 100 --overlap 20

Evaluate a tiny or full MSMARCO-style ranking without importing ColBERT:

bash
python scripts/evaluate_tiny_ranking.py --qrels qrels.tsv --ranking ranking.tsv --depths 10 50 100

Evaluate a tiny LoTTE-style QA/ranking pair:

bash
python scripts/evaluate_tiny_ranking.py --lotte-qas qas.search.jsonl --ranking ranking.tsv --success-at 5

References and Scripts

  • references/data-formats.md explains TSV, qrels, JSONL QA, LoTTE layout, and tiny fixture conventions; use it before creating or converting data files.
  • references/api-reference.md summarizes Collection, Queries, and Ranking behavior; use it when writing Python code against ColBERT data wrappers.
  • references/evaluation-and-rankings.md explains MSMARCO evaluation, LoTTE Success@k, annotation, split/merge helpers, and ranking utility adaptations.
  • references/troubleshooting.md maps common data/config/API/workflow failures to checks and fixes; use it when validation or native utilities fail.
  • scripts/validate_colbert_data.py performs deterministic local validation of collection/query/ranking/qrels/LoTTE files without Torch, FAISS, CUDA, or ColBERT imports.
  • scripts/prepare_collection_tsv.py converts document TSV rows into ColBERT passage TSV rows with safe whitespace splitting and optional mapping columns.
  • scripts/evaluate_tiny_ranking.py computes fixture-friendly MSMARCO-style metrics or LoTTE Success@k and can write annotated ranking rows.
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Operating Notes

  • ColBERT package imports verified for colbert, colbert.infra, colbert.data, colbert.modeling.checkpoint, utility, and baleen; CPU import checks work, but indexing/training usually require CUDA/GPU.
  • The public package is colbert-ai and the verified distribution version is 0.2.22; import the package as colbert.
  • Core data signatures are Collection(path=None, data=None), Queries(path=None, data=None), and Ranking(path=None, data=None, metrics=None, provenance=None).
  • Retrieval APIs produce rankings through Searcher(index, checkpoint=None, collection=None, config=None, index_root=None, verbose=3), but retrieval execution belongs in the indexing/search sub-skill.
  • Native utilities often assert that output paths do not already exist; decide overwrite/delete policy before long runs.

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Files

SKILL.md and 7 other files (scripts, references) in skills/repositories/repo-skills/colbert/sub-skills/data-and-evaluation of VectorSpaceLab/AREX-Skill.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/api-reference.md
  • references/data-formats.md
  • references/evaluation-and-rankings.md
  • references/troubleshooting.md
  • scripts/evaluate_tiny_ranking.py
  • scripts/prepare_collection_tsv.py
  • scripts/validate_colbert_data.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ac3fe1a

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Questions about Data And Evaluation

What does Data And Evaluation do?

A skill your agent uses when preparing or validating ColBERT collection/query/ranking/qrels/LoTTE data, evaluating MSMARCO-style or LoTTE rankings, converting documents into passage TSVs, or…. Data And Evaluation is an agent skill from VectorSpaceLab/AREX-Skill. Use when preparing or validating ColBERT collection/query/ranking/qrels/LoTTE data, evaluating MSMARCO-style or LoTTE rankings, converting documents into passage TSVs, or troubleshooting data-format utility workflows.

When should I use Data And Evaluation?

Data And Evaluation fits situations like: validating ColBERT collection/query/ranking/qrels/LoTTE data; evaluating MSMARCO-style; converting documents into passage TSVs; troubleshooting data-format utility workflows.

How do I install Data And Evaluation in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add VectorSpaceLab/AREX-Skill --skill data-and-evaluation -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/repositories/repo-skills/colbert/sub-skills/data-and-evaluation in VectorSpaceLab/AREX-Skill) into .claude/skills/data-and-evaluation in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Data And Evaluation in Codex?

Run `npx skills add VectorSpaceLab/AREX-Skill --skill data-and-evaluation -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/repositories/repo-skills/colbert/sub-skills/data-and-evaluation in VectorSpaceLab/AREX-Skill) into .agents/skills/data-and-evaluation in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Data And Evaluation 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 VectorSpaceLab/AREX-Skill --skill data-and-evaluation -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/data-and-evaluation, .gemini/skills/data-and-evaluation, .github/skills/data-and-evaluation and .opencode/skills/data-and-evaluation in your project.

What does Data And Evaluation need to run?

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

Does Data And Evaluation 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 Data And Evaluation 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 Data And Evaluation use?

Data And Evaluation is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Data And Evaluation use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 6.1k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Data And Evaluation?

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Who maintains Data And Evaluation?

VectorSpaceLab (a GitHub organization) maintains it in VectorSpaceLab/AREX-Skill, which has 328 GitHub stars. The repository holds 157 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 3, 2026.

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