# Ask a model about a whole column

Model / text

A variant of [Ask a language model](https://meridian.online/operations/ask-a-language-model).

Send the values of many rows to a language model in one prompt and get one answer back.

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/ask-a-language-model/ask-a-model-about-a-whole-column>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#ask-a-language-model)

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 95.7% of 324 rows (variant, version 3).

- VisiData: [`llm-analyze-column`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/experimental/llm.py#L199) (read 2026-09-23)
- VisiData: [`llm-analyze-selected`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/experimental/llm.py#L203) (read 2026-09-23)
