Overview
LookML is the closest thing most companies have to a written definition of their metrics. Modus mines models, explores, views, dimensions, and measures so agents inherit those definitions instead of re-deriving them.
What Modus reads
- 1Model
- 2Explore / View
- 3Dimension
- 3Measure
- 3Filter
- 3Parameter
- 3Set
You select the level Modus is allowed to mine. Everything below it is discovered automatically; everything outside it is never touched.
4context types mined
1agent tool groups
1connection method
3security controls
Context types
Each object Modus mines produces typed context items, addressed by their position in the hierarchy. This is what an agent actually receives.
Model metadata
The LookML models you select and what they expose.
Explore metadata
Joins, join types, and the views an explore makes queryable.
View metadata
The underlying table or derived table, plus every field defined on it.
Field metadata
Dimensions, measures, dimension groups, filters, parameters, and sets — with SQL, type, and description.
Example context item
lookml_measure_metadataecommerce›order_items›total_net_revenue
- Type
- measure · sum
- SQL
- ${sale_price} - ${discount_amount}
- Filters
- status != "cancelled"
- Label
- Total Net Revenue
- Used by
- 11 dashboards · 4 looks
Common use cases
- 01
Have every agent use the company definition of net revenue, character for character.
- 02
Catch two explores that define "active user" differently before an agent picks the wrong one.
- 03
Give a text-to-SQL agent the join graph an explore already encodes.
Connection method
Connect once. Modus stores credentials in a managed secret store, rotates what it can, and never asks an agent to handle them.
Looker API credentials
Mined through the same Looker connection — no separate credential to manage.
Security & governance
Governance is applied once, at the layer every agent runs through, so it holds no matter which agent asks.
Metadata-first mining
Modus learns from structure and usage, not bulk data. Raw records stay in your environment; only the metadata needed to understand the system is stored.
Scoped selection
You choose exactly which schemas, folders, spaces, or boards Modus is allowed to see. Nothing outside the selection is ever mined.
Read-only by default
Mining runs on a read-only credential. Any tool that writes back is a separate, explicitly granted action.
