Data Exploration with Dasel v3

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Activate this skill when:

• Exploring unfamiliar structured data files (config, API responses, datasets)
• Discovering the schema or shape of a document before modifying it
• Investigating nested config structures (Kubernetes manifests, CI pipelines, package files)
• Sampling large arrays or deeply nested objects to understand content
• Identifying data types before transformation or extraction

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Supported Formats

Dasel auto-detects format from file extension. Override with -i <format> when reading from stdin or when extension is ambiguous.

Format identifiers: json, yaml, toml, xml, csv, hcl, ini