# model-exploration

Explore Honeydew’s semantic model, set workspace and branch context, and spot-check field values. Use it before investigating the data itself.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 43
- Author: honeydew-ai
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/honeydew-ai/honeydew-ai-coding-agents-plugins/tree/HEAD/skills/model-exploration/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-08-30
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/model-exploration

## What it does

The skill starts by checking the active Honeydew workspace and branch. If either needs setting, it guides the session through workspace selection. MCP tools then let you list model entities, inspect an entity’s fields and relations, or search for named objects. You can also inspect agents and context items, along with warehouse schemas and tables.

Use `get_data_from_fields` for a sample of field values or a count check; `get_sql_from_fields` produces SQL without running it. This skill explores the model, not the meaning of its data. Questions about causes, trends, or multi-step investigations belong to the `query` skill. After two queries for one question, stop: hand the original question to `initiate_analysis` instead of running a third.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add honeydew-ai/honeydew-ai-coding-agents-plugins --skill model-exploration -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/model-exploration/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/model-exploration/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add honeydew-ai/honeydew-ai-coding-agents-plugins --skill model-exploration -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/model-exploration/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add honeydew-ai/honeydew-ai-coding-agents-plugins --skill model-exploration -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/model-exploration/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install honeydew-ai/honeydew-ai-coding-agents-plugins model-exploration
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/model-exploration/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add honeydew-ai/honeydew-ai-coding-agents-plugins --skill model-exploration -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/honeydew-ai/honeydew-ai-coding-agents-plugins --path skills/model-exploration
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/model-exploration/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add honeydew-ai/honeydew-ai-coding-agents-plugins --skill model-exploration -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/honeydew-ai/honeydew-ai-coding-agents-plugins/tree/HEAD/skills/model-exploration/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- set the active Honeydew workspace and branch
- find a model entity or field by name
- inspect an entity’s attributes, metrics, and relations
- spot-check field values or a count
- look up model agents and context items

## Example prompts
- Check my Honeydew session context, then find the entities related to orders.
- Find the customer balance field and sample its values.
- Show the agents and context items available for this model.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: model-exploration
description: Use when exploring Honeydew semantic layer, discovering entities/fields, setting up workspace and branch context, or running structured queries to spot-check field values. Any question about the data itself — "why", "how", trends, root cause, anything needing multiple steps — belongs to the query skill's deep analysis, including when already mid-exploration. For creating metrics use metric-creation skill. For creating attributes use attribute-creation skill.
---

# Instructions

## Scope: The Model, Not The Data

This skill discovers and verifies the **model**. It does not answer questions about the **data**.

When the goal is to understand, explain, or investigate something in the data — "how does this customer use the system", "why did revenue drop", "what drives churn", or anything that becomes a report — use the **query** skill's deep analysis (`initiate_analysis` + `monitor_analysis`). Honeydew's analysis engine plans and runs the multi-step investigation itself; hand it the question rather than decomposing it into structured queries yourself. This holds even when already mid-exploration and the field names are known.

Hand it the goal, not a plan built from what exploration just found. The fields you discovered here are a subset of the context the analyst has, and a question that prescribes the exact dimensions and steps suppresses the rest of it — see **Asking the Question** in the `query` skill.

`get_data_from_fields` in this skill is for spot-checks: confirm a field's values, verify a count, sample rows. Exact numbers from a spot-check are not an analysis. A question needing more than one query belongs in deep analysis, and **if two have already run for one question, the third is a hard stop** — hand the original question to `initiate_analysis`.

## When To Use This Skill

Before ANY Honeydew work, set up your session and discover the model:

**Step 0: Set workspace and branch**
Use `get_session_workspace_and_branch` to check the current session context. If no workspace/branch is set, use `list_workspaces`, `list_workspace_branches`, and `set_session_workspace_and_branch` to select the right workspace and branch. All subsequent tool calls use this context. See the `workspace-branch` skill for the full tool reference including branch creation, deletion, history, and PRs.

**Step 1: List entities**
Use the `list_entities` MCP tool to see all entities in the model.

**Step 2: Explore entity details**
Use the `get_entity` MCP tool with the relevant entity name to list its attributes, metrics, datasets, and relations.

**Step 3: Search the model**
Use the `search_model` MCP tool to find specific fields, entities, or other objects by name.

**What these steps do not show you**
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