Content Type
Static (Markdown)
Trigger Keywords
ziparchiveunzipfilescompresseddocuments
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# Zip Archive Handling Skill
Use this skill whenever you need to work with **zipfiles** stored in Vertesia (for example, zipped collections of CSVs, logs, or documents).
Key behaviors:
- A Vertesia **object** whose source is a `.zip` file has a **text rendition** that lists the files inside the archive (an index), not their full contents.
- To actually read files from the archive, you must download the zip into the Daytona sandbox and unzip it there.
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## 1. Understand the Text Rendition
When you fetch or inspect a zip object’s text rendition (for example via `fetch_document` in analyze mode), it typically contains:
- A list of file paths and names inside the archive.
- Sometimes sizes and timestamps, depending on how the index was generated.
Use this index to:
- Identify which internal files matter (e.g. `data/metrics.csv`, `reports/summary.md`).
- Decide which ones you want to extract and analyze.
Do **not** treat the text rendition as the full content of each file—it is ...