Is the DataWorks Open API skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from aliyun/alibabacloud-bigdata-skills. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

What is the DataWorks Open API SkillProof Score?

8.8/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 8/10, docs & honesty 4/5.

How do I install DataWorks Open API?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use DataWorks Open API with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

DataWorks Open API

Discovers DataWorks APIs live from Alibaba Cloud instead of hardcoding a list

by aliyun · aliyun/alibabacloud-bigdata-skills

Works with setup

Install — copy the command Download source ↗

Test report

Verdict: Works with setup
Score: 8.8/10
Tested: Jul 29, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
Upstream re-checked: Jul 30, 2026 · 6a45927

⚠ This skill is no longer available upstream. Our re-check on Aug 10, 2026 couldn't find it any more (repo unreachable/deleted). The test below is what we measured on Jul 29, 2026 and we're leaving it up as a record — but there is nothing left to install, so we've removed the command.

Executed both bundled discovery scripts with no credentials at all: one pulled live OpenAPI metadata and listed 337 real DataWorks APIs, the other parsed the official help docs into 391 APIs across 16 categories. Cross-checking the cookbook, 34 of the 35 APIs it marks Verified exist in the current 2024-05-18 spec, the odd one out being GetDeployment, which only exists in the legacy 2020-05-18 version. The discovery step also caught a bug in the skill's own example, which puts PageNumber and PageSize in the query string when the live ListProjects spec puts every parameter in formData and renames Tags to AliyunResourceTags — precisely the two mistakes an unaided answer from memory makes. Actually operating DataWorks needs an Alibaba Cloud access key, which we did not have, so only the discovery half of the workflow is measured.

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 5/5
Triggers reliably 5/5
Output vs. baseline 8/10
Docs & honesty 4/5

What DataWorks Open API does

Drives Alibaba Cloud DataWorks through its OpenAPI: two bundled Python scripts pull the current API catalogue and per-API parameter schemas at runtime, and a 1900-line cookbook covers the create-submit-deploy-run lifecycle, FlowSpec nodes, data quality rules and response parsing. Node.js, Python and Java SDK call patterns are included, with an MCP server as fallback. Triggers on DataWorks workspace, node, sync-job, lineage or task-instance work on Alibaba Cloud.

How to install DataWorks Open API

Nothing to install: the source repository no longer has this skill. If the author brings it back, our daily re-check will pick it up and the command will reappear here.

Commands — how to trigger DataWorks Open API

/dataworks-open-api Discovers DataWorks APIs live from Alibaba Cloud instead of hardcoding a list

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

List all my DataWorks projects in the cn-shanghai region
Which DataWorks API do I call to get table lineage information?
Create a DataWorks node and deploy it through the OpenAPI lifecycle

Frequently asked questions

Is the DataWorks Open API skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from aliyun/alibabacloud-bigdata-skills. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does DataWorks Open API work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Jul 29, 2026. Verdict: Works with setup. Executed both bundled discovery scripts with no credentials at all: one pulled live OpenAPI metadata and listed 337 real DataWorks APIs, the other parsed the official help docs into 391 APIs across 16 categories. Cross-checking the cookbook, 34 of the 35 APIs it marks Verified exist in the current 2024-05-18 spec, the odd one out being GetDeployment, which only exists in the legacy 2020-05-18 version. The discovery step also caught a bug in the skill's own example, which puts PageNumber and PageSize in the query string when the live ListProjects spec puts every parameter in formData and renames Tags to AliyunResourceTags — precisely the two mistakes an unaided answer from memory makes. Actually operating DataWorks needs an Alibaba Cloud access key, which we did not have, so only the discovery half of the workflow is measured.
What is the DataWorks Open API SkillProof Score?: 8.8/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 8/10, docs & honesty 4/5.
How do I install DataWorks Open API?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use DataWorks Open API with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.