Validate Data

Validate Data is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by anthropics in knowledge-work-plugins.

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Install Validate Data

Copy Validate Data into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/main/data/skills/validate-data ~/.claude/skills/validate-data

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: data/skills/validate-data/SKILL.md in anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/validate-data
Collection: One of 26 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1897 skills

What Validate Data does

Review analyses for methodology, accuracy, and bias before stakeholder presentations. Spot-check calculations, verify SQL results, and assess if conclusions are data-supported.

Validate Data is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see CONNECTORS.md.

Review an analysis for accuracy, methodology, and potential biases before sharing with stakeholders. Generates a confidence assessment and improvement suggestions.

Usage

/validate-data <analysis to review>

The analysis can be:

A document or report in the conversation
A file (markdown, notebook, spreadsheet)
SQL queries and their results
Charts and their underlying data
A description of methodology and findings

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Validate Data provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/validate-data

Frequently asked about Validate Data

What else does anthropics publish alongside Validate Data?
Validate Data is one of 26 skills that DirSkills catalogs from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Accessibility Review, Analyze Data and Bio-Research Start. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Validate Data does, and is maintained by anthropics in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins page.
How does Validate Data compare to other Quality skills?
Validate Data ranks #140 by stars among the 1897 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Validate Data against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.