# External Collection

> Use when the user wants to trigger, describe, or list refresh jobs for an external collection (a collection backed by an external data source such as Vector Lake). Note this is the data-plane refresh workflow, not collection CRUD -- for create/drop/load see the collection skill.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-zilliztech-external-collection
- tashan id: skill:zilliztech/external-collection
- Source: https://github.com/zilliztech/zilliz-plugin
- Type: skill
- Category: other
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 89.0
- Freshness: 76.0
- 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 external-collection ~/.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 2026-08-09 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.