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title: "data-tools"
description: "Structured data manipulation with jq, yq, dasel, qsv, and mlr for JSON, JSONL, YAML, TOML, XML, and CSV processing"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/data-tools
last-updated: 2026-11-07
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# data-tools
Structured data manipulation with jq, yq, dasel, qsv, and mlr for JSON, JSONL, YAML, TOML, XML, and CSV processing
- Slug: data-tools
- Publisher: Netresearch DTT GmbH
- Repository: https://github.com/netresearch/data-tools-skill
- Manifest: plugin.json
- Version: 1.9.8
- License: (MIT AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
- Category (editorial): databases
- Skills: 1 (data-tools)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 1
- Repository created: 2026-02-25
- Repository last pushed: 2026-11-07
- Publisher type: Organization
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/data-tools
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What data-tools does, in the publisher's words

AI agent skill for structured data manipulation. Teaches agents when and how to use dedicated tools instead of fragile text processing (grep/sed/awk) on structured formats.

Never use grep, sed, or awk on JSON, YAML, TOML, XML, or CSV data. These tools treat structured data as flat text and break on multi-line values, nested structures, quoted strings, and encoding differences.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netresearch/data-tools-skill/HEAD/README.md

## Skills

- data-tools: Use when querying, transforming, filtering, converting, or editing ANY JSON, JSONL, YAML, TOML, XML, or CSV. MUST replace grep/sed/awk on structured formats.

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.