Baselight skills

Agent Skills that provides access to Baselight — a data platform with thousands of queryable public datasets covering crypto/blockchain, finance, demographics, climate, healthcare, sports, and more.

What it does

When you ask a data question, your agent will search Baselight's catalog, inspect the relevant table schema, and query it directly using DuckDB SQL — returning actual data instead of web search snippets.

Example triggers:

• "Compare GDP across countries"
• "Show me happiness score trends"
• "Query @owid.happiness.owid_happiness_2"

Installation

npx installation

npx skills add baselightdb/skills --skill baselight -g

Manual installation

Copy the skill into your agent's skills directory. Example for Claude Code:

cp -r skills/baselight ~/.claude/skills/baselight

It should pick it up automatically on the next session.

Setup

You need a Baselight API key:

1. Sign up at baselight.app
2. Go to Account Settings → Integrations → Generate New API Key
3. Save it to ~/.baselight/credentials:

mkdir -p ~/.baselight
echo 'BASELIGHT_API_KEY=your-key-here' >> ~/.baselight/credentials
chmod 600 ~/.baselight/credentials

Structure

skills/baselight/
├── SKILL.md                    # Skill definition and instructions for Claude
├── scripts/
│   └── baselight.py            # Python MCP client (no extra deps beyond requests)
└── references/
    └── sql-patterns.md         # DuckDB SQL reference and examples

Requirements

Python 3 with requests:

pip install requests

License

MIT