Answer one-off data questions with read-only access
xAI's Team Bots post describes a Data Bot that answers one-off data questions from your warehouse using read-only credentials, shows charts, and remembers corrections so answers improve for everyone.
Last verified: Oct 18, 2026
The problem
Simple data questions wait days for an analyst.
How the bot does it
From xAI:
- In xAI's Team Bots post, Data Bot uses shared, read-only credentials to query approved tables in Databricks, and also uses Datadog, Hex, and Statsig.
- It remembers corrections to its queries, so what one person teaches it improves everyone's answers.
- SpaceXSI gave it a skills library its data team had built over two years for more than 45,000 tables. A smaller setup will start with less.
- Use read-only credentials as they did. Team Bots need a team plan.
Setup steps
- 1Create read-only credentials for approved tables.
- 2Write down your key metric definitions.
- 3Invite the bot where people ask data questions.
- 4Tell it: read-only. Change nothing.
Example prompt
Using read-only access to [warehouse], answer: [question]. Show the query, the metric definition you used, and a chart. If anything is unclear, ask. Change nothing.
The result
Answers with the query and a chart, from read-only data.
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