# Ask · Alation

> Use when the user asks a data question, wants to run a query against a data product, chat with an AI agent, or invoke a tool. Triggers: run SQL, run a query against a data product, ask agent, chat with agent, execute query, invoke tool, call tool, get answer, analyze data, how many, what is the total, count of, sum of, average, compare, trend, show me orders, pull revenue, what were sales, run this SELECT. A data product ID should be known before using this skill. If the user asks a vague data question and no product is identified, route through explore first to find the right product. Not for finding or browsing data products — use explore instead. Not for browsing catalog structure — use explore instead. Not for recurring/scheduled queries — use automate instead.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-alation-ask
- tashan id: skill:Alation/ask
- Source: https://github.com/Alation/alation-plugins
- Type: skill
- Category: other
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 95.0
- Freshness: 90.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: Apache-2.0
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r ask ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-21 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.