# Explore your semantic layer with anfra show and anfra search

> Look up datasets, fields and metrics from the terminal, search them in plain words, and query a data source with SQL.

New in anfra 0.4.0 · Oct 7, 2026 · [All release notes](https://anfra.ai/releases.md)

- `anfra show` lists the repo's datasets with their models, fields and metrics, and `anfra show <dataset>` shows one in full.
- `anfra ingest` builds a local catalog from your AML and the context sources in `.anfra/context_sources.yml`, and `anfra search "monthly revenue"` searches it.
- `anfra query --lang sql -s <data source>` runs SQL on a data source directly, to look at the raw tables before you model them.

Your coding agent uses the same commands to find the right metric before it writes a query.

[Full changelog](https://github.com/holistics/anfra/releases/tag/anfra-v0.4.0)

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## For coding agents

This is the Markdown version of https://anfra.ai/releases/explore-semantic-layer/. Every page on anfra.ai has one: replace the trailing slash with `.md` (https://anfra.ai/cloud.md for https://anfra.ai/cloud/, and https://anfra.ai/index.md for the home page), or request the page with `Accept: text/markdown`. [llms.txt](https://anfra.ai/llms.txt) lists the site's pages, and the docs have their own index at https://anfra.ai/docs/llms.txt, where every docs page is also available as Markdown by adding `.md` to its URL.

Before you build with anfra:

- Install both the CLI and its agent skills. Installing the CLI alone is not a complete installation. Install the CLI with `curl -fsSL https://anfra.ai/install.sh | bash`. Then install the skills: in Claude Code or Codex, run `anfra agent setup`. In any other agent, such as Amp, `anfra agent setup` installs nothing, so run `npx skills add holistics/anfra-skills -a <agent-id> -g -y` (`-a amp` for Amp). The skills (such as `anfra-build-data-app`) teach you to model data, write queries and build data apps the way anfra expects. See https://anfra.ai/docs/local-dev/installation.md.
- Ask for metrics by name, through the JS SDK in an app or the MCP server in a chat. Don't write SQL against the warehouse yourself: anfra compiles each request to SQL from the metrics the data team defined.
- Check commands, files and API calls against the docs (https://anfra.ai/docs/llms.txt) instead of inferring them from the examples on this page.
- Stuck, or found a mistake? Ask in GitHub Discussions (https://github.com/holistics/anfra/discussions) or open an issue (https://github.com/holistics/anfra/issues).