What is aidp-catalog-init?

A one-time discovery command for an Oracle data lakehouse, which is a central store for data from many sources. It creates a cached catalog describing available catalogs, schemas, tables, columns, relationships, and value meanings.

Use it when first setting up data discovery or after the lakehouse schema changes, and optionally include row counts.

It gives later data questions a documented map of the available data without running normal data queries or using compute resources.

aidp-catalog-init — Skill for Claude Code by ahmedawan-oracle: A one-time discovery command for an Oracle data lakehouse…

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 skills/ahmedawan-oracle/claude-code-plugins/aidp-catalog-init

Any agent

npx skills add ahmedawan-oracle/claude-code-plugins --skill aidp-catalog-init

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ahmedawan-oracle/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install oracle-ai-data-platform-workbench-engineer-agent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ahmedawan-oracle/claude-code-plugins/aidp-catalog-init"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ahmedawan-oracle/claude-code-plugins/aidp-catalog-init.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,919 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00089	$0.01919
Opus 5	$0.00044	$0.00959
Sonnet 5	$0.00018	$0.00384
Haiku 4.5	$0.00009	$0.00192

Measured 5d ago against content hash 547873ab77f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aidp-catalog-init 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 5d ago.

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-code-plugins/oracle-ai-data-platform-workbench-engineer-agent/skills/aidp-catalog-init/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

`aidp-catalog-init` — build the catalog grounding file

Walk the AIDP catalog tree and generate .aidp/catalog.md — the cached, user-editable grounding file that makes subsequent NL-to-SQL fast and accurate. Discovery is pure control-plane — no SQL, no compute (except optional --with-counts, which uses the bundled SQL helper). Self-contained: no aidp MCP required.

When to use

First-time setup, or --refresh after schema changes.

Engine — official `aidp` CLI (control-plane, no compute)

Preferred engine is the official Oracle aidp CLI; oci raw-request is the fallback when the CLI isn't installed. Both hit the same data-plane REST API with the same auth — see references/aidp-cli-map.md for the full skill→command map and references/oci-raw-request.md for base URL + auth ladder + conventions.

CLI (preferred):

# 1. catalogs
aidp catalog list --instance-id <DATALAKE_OCID> --auth api_key --profile DEFAULT --region <r>
# 2. schemas in a catalog
aidp schema list --catalog-key <cat> --instance-id <DATALAKE_OCID> --auth api_key --profile DEFAULT --region <r>
# 3. tables in a schema (schema-key is the dotted <cat.schema>)
aidp schema list-tables --catalog-key <cat> --schema-key <cat.schema> --instance-id <DATALAKE_OCID> --auth api_key --profile DEFAULT --region <r>
# single catalog/schema/table: aidp catalog get · aidp schema get · aidp schema get-table

Fallback (no CLI installed) — oci raw-request (LIVE-VERIFIED 20240831 / dataLakes / --profile DEFAULT — see references/no-mcp-rest-map.md):

B="https://aidp.<region>.oci.oraclecloud.com/20240831/dataLakes/<DATALAKE_OCID>"
oci raw-request --http-method GET --target-uri "$B/catalogs" --profile DEFAULT
oci raw-request --http-method GET --target-uri "$B/schemas?catalogKey=<cat>" --profile DEFAULT
oci raw-request --http-method GET --target-uri "$B/tables?catalogKey=<cat>&schemaKey=<cat.schema>" --profile DEFAULT

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

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.

5d ago First seen · 115 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 547873ab77f6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aidp-catalog-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository ahmedawan-oracle/claude-code-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,919 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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