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Advanced Features

Everything in this section is optional. The core of ChakataStat — import, define, analyse, chart, save — needs none of it. These pages are for when you want to go further: ask for analyses in plain language, make your work reproducible and scriptable, or reach the engine directly.

They share one foundation. Every analysis, chart and transform in ChakataStat is a single named command. The menus emit commands, and so the same commands can be typed, scripted, asked for by an AI, or sent by another program — all driving the one engine, all returning results (including errors) as data. The advanced features are different windows onto that one command stream.

The sections

  1. The AI Assistant — connect a model backend (Claude or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint), ask for analyses in plain English, and read the resulting tables and charts inline. Choose and switch among several backends; add custom context about your data.

  2. Reproducibility — the .cks syntax console that records and replays your work, now a real syntax editor (line numbers, colours, bracket matching, find & replace, run keys — and, as you type, error checking, completion over the catalog and your variables, and hover help); the command palette; headless batch runs (--run) for CI and pipelines; exporting the output log to HTML/Markdown/LaTeX; and exporting a session as Python for the external Python client.

  3. Direct Engine Access — Advanced mode, the engine diagnostics panel, and driving ChakataStat from another program over MCP.

  4. Verify this Installation — run the built-in check of the installed copy against independently computed reference values (and NIST certified datasets), from the Help menu or headless with --verify, and read the report it prints.

A word on safety

The powerful escape hatches are gated on purpose:

  • The engine diagnostics panel is hidden until you enable Advanced mode in Settings.
  • The AI assistant and MCP callers see only the tools you allow; the read-only profile — the assistant's default, flipped from its panel's header — lets them run analyses but blocks anything that changes data — the transforms and the analyses' save columns options alike.
  • Your API key is never stored — only your choice of backend is remembered.