Write Query

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

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Install in seconds

Install Write Query

Copy Write Query 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/write-query ~/.claude/skills/write-query

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/write-query/SKILL.md in anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/write-query
Collection: One of 26 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Data — 812 skills

What Write Query does

Translates natural language data requests into optimized SQL queries tailored to your database dialect. Ideal for building complex queries with CTEs, joins, and aggregations, and for performance optimization on large partitioned tables.

Write Query is cataloged under Data on DirSkills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

/write-query - Write Optimized SQL

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

Write a SQL query from a natural language description, optimized for your specific SQL dialect and following best practices.

Usage

/write-query <description of what data you need>

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

Commands Write Query provides

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

/write-query

Frequently asked about Write Query

What else does anthropics publish alongside Write Query?
Write Query 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 Write Query 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 Write Query compare to other Data skills?
Write Query ranks #94 by stars among the 812 Data skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark Methodology, Jupyter Notebook and Solana. 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 Write Query against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.