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Skip the wiring — install the tako-graph-agent skill

One command teaches your coding agent this whole workflow: resolve names to nodes, read what data exists, compose pinned searches, report gaps honestly.

When to use the Data Graph

The Data Graph is Tako’s index of what its curated data actually covers — every entity (companies, countries, teams, commodities…) and metric (revenue, CPI, win percentage…) as a node, connected by real relationships. Query it before Search so your agent composes queries that hit, pins the exact nodes it resolved, and honestly reports what’s missing. Reach for it when:

You want to know what Tako has before you search

Resolve a name (“Nvidia”, “inflation”) to real graph nodes and read what data exists for them — instead of spending searches on guesses.

You want deterministic grounding

Pin resolved node ids into Search via sources.data.node_ids for guaranteed retrieval candidacy — or add strict: true to return only cards matching your nodes.

You want real relationships, not model memory

Competitors, subsidiaries, industry peers, cohort members — read them off named graph edges like rel:competes_with and members. A database read replaces the LLM-recalled lists that produce hallucinated comparisons.

You want honest gaps

When the graph can’t ground part of a question, your agent can say so — “Tako has X and Y, but not Z.” An empty result is an honest answer, not a failure.
No general-purpose AI-search API — Exa, Perplexity, Tavily, Brave — exposes a typed knowledge-graph traversal your agent can query before it searches. The closest analogues are the symbol-search endpoints of financial data APIs; the Data Graph extends that pattern to Tako’s whole curated index, with relationships.

The three endpoints

Free to call, easy to explore

No credits consumed

Graph calls use the same X-API-Key header as every Tako endpoint and consume no credits — they’re bounded only by rate limits (180/minute, 10,000/day). Discovery is free; spend your credits on the searches it grounds.

Explore the graph at tako.com/data

Browse the Data Graph visually with your Tako account — search any entity or metric, walk its relationships, and see exactly what your agent will see before you write a line of code.
The Data Graph is in beta, and it’s a guide — not a guarantee. A node’s related metrics come from the datasets that cover that entity, so a listed metric is strong evidence, not proof of that exact combination. And the graph is not the whole index: stock prices, market quotes, rankings, and overviews often live outside it, yet Search has them. Confirm coverage with a search; treat a thin graph result for a well-covered entity as a cue to search anyway, not to declare a gap.

Example — discover, then search grounded

1

Resolve the entity

Returns nodes with id, name, aliases, subtype — pick the company node and keep its id.
2

See what data exists for it

Metrics matching “revenue”, ranked by popularity and match strength — the combinations Tako actually covers.
3

Search, pinned to what you resolved

Pinned nodes get guaranteed retrieval candidacy plus a strong boost; organic results are unaffected.

Next steps

  • For your coding agent → — the complete build reference: every parameter, label boosts, relation kinds, response shapes, and the common mistakes.
  • Building an agentic app? Install the tako-graph-agent skill — it packages the whole discover → ground → report-gaps loop for your coding agent.