ChakataStat
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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.