refresh-catalog

A command that rebuilds a searchable database of project metadata. The catalog can include entities, microflows, pages, widgets, strings, and source definitions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after edits, when exploring a project, or before searching metadata, strings, or MDL source; choose fast, full, or source mode.
Why use it?
It makes recent project changes available to catalog queries and full-text searches.

Command for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/mendixlabs/mxcli/refresh-catalog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mendixlabs/mxcli

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 297 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00010 $0.00297
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00148
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00030

Measured yesterday against content hash 694d240c438d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

refresh-catalog scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/commands/mendix/refresh-catalog.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Refresh Catalog

Rebuild the catalog database for querying project metadata.

Commands

-- Fast mode (metadata only, ~5 seconds)
REFRESH CATALOG;

-- Full mode (includes activities, widgets, and strings FTS table)
REFRESH CATALOG FULL;

-- Source mode (includes full + MDL source FTS table)
REFRESH CATALOG SOURCE;

-- Force rebuild (ignores cache)
REFRESH CATALOG FULL FORCE;

When to Use

  • After making changes to the project
  • Before running catalog queries
  • When exploring a new project
  • Use FULL mode before using SEARCH command
  • Use SOURCE mode for searching MDL definitions

Example Queries After Refresh

-- Find entities
SELECT Name, AttributeCount FROM CATALOG.ENTITIES WHERE ModuleName = 'Sales';

-- Find microflows
SELECT QualifiedName, ParameterCount FROM CATALOG.MICROFLOWS WHERE Name LIKE '%Customer%';

-- Find pages
SELECT Name, WidgetCount FROM CATALOG.PAGES;

-- Full-text search (requires FULL mode)
SEARCH 'validation';

-- Raw FTS query on strings
SELECT * FROM CATALOG.STRINGS WHERE strings MATCH 'error';

-- Raw FTS query on source (requires SOURCE mode)
SELECT * FROM CATALOG.SOURCE WHERE source MATCH 'CREATE ENTITY';
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 55 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 694d240c438d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

refresh-catalog is a command published in the GitHub repository mendixlabs/mxcli (115 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 297 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.