Is Explore · Alation safe and trustworthy?

tashan scores Explore · Alation on public evidence — it is currently active. Audit scope: OSV advisories, install-time scripts, build provenance and declared permission surface. We do not review source code or execute the capability.

How do I install Explore · Alation?

Drop the skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/ (user scope) or .claude/skills/ (project scope).

Who maintains Explore · Alation?

5 GitHub contributors, source: Alation/alation-plugins.

‹ The Index

Explore · Alation

skill

Use when the user wants to discover, find, or browse data assets in the Alation catalog, data products, or marketplaces. Triggers: search catalog, find tables, list data sources, browse schemas, show columns, what data do we have, what tables exist, explore database, describe table, what's in this data source, show me the schema, list schemas, list columns, what databases do we have, show table structure, describe this data source, find data products, list data products, what data products do we have, search products, show available products, what products are in the marketplace, browse marketplace, which product has sales data. …

Works with: Claude Code (native) · Cursor, Codex CLI (manual)
native: this artifact type is that client's own format

Install (Claude Code):

cp -r explore ~/.claude/skills/

Adoption: 1 repos
Upkeep: 95.0
Freshness: 90.0
Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use — the rest are unknown, and the score is discounted for it
Health: active
Contributors: 5
License: Apache-2.0

Security audit

Not scanned yet. We audit npm-published capabilities for known advisories, install-time scripts and permission surface; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue.

Its own instructions

Its SKILL.md says when to use it, says when not to and covers setup.

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Measured 2026-08-21 · scorer s5 · how · something wrong here?