Data Tools Skill

Critical Rule

NEVER use grep, sed, awk, or inline interpreters (python3 -c, node -e) on JSON, JSONL, YAML, TOML, XML, or CSV. Refuse and use the correct tool — text tools break on structure; inline scripts are verbose and fragile.

Key Patterns

For the general legacy-tool → modern-tool comparison (grep→rg, find→fd, cat→bat, ...), see cli-tools-skill's table.

Convert: dasel -w FORMAT or yq -o FORMAT.

jq -- JSON (no in-place)