algolia-cli

A command-line guide for managing Algolia search accounts and indexes. An index is the searchable collection where Algolia stores records such as products, documents or articles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to import, delete, copy, back up or restore records and indexes, manage API keys, and change settings, rules or synonyms.
Why use it?
It separates actions that change search data or settings from read-only searches and analysis, reducing the risk of using the wrong tool for an operation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/algolia/skills/algolia-cli
Any agent
npx skills add algolia/skills --skill algolia-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/algolia/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 166 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,112 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 $0.00166 $0.03112
Opus 5 $0.00083 $0.01556
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00622
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00311

Measured 2d ago against content hash ac5bb884a55d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

algolia-cli 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (evals/run_cli_evals.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/algolia-cli/SKILL.md · 233 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Algolia CLI

Manage Algolia search infrastructure from the terminal using the algolia CLI.

When to Use This Skill vs. algolia-mcp

Need Use
Write/modify data (import, delete, update records) algolia-cli (this skill)
Manage configuration (settings, rules, synonyms) algolia-cli (this skill)
Auth (login, logout, signup via OAuth) algolia-cli (this skill)
Admin operations (API keys, profiles, index copy/move) algolia-cli (this skill)
Backup/restore indices algolia-cli (this skill)
Search queries and view results algolia-mcp
Analytics (top searches, click rates, no-results) algolia-mcp
Recommendations (related products, trending) algolia-mcp

Rule of thumb: If the user wants to read or analyze data → algolia-mcp. If they want to change, move, or manage data → algolia-cli.

Setup

Run /algolia-cli:cli-setup to install the CLI and configure a profile, or follow Getting Started.

Tip: algolia auth login is the easiest way to set up credentials — it handles OAuth sign-in and profile creation in one step. Use algolia profile add for non-interactive / CI setups where you already have an API key.

Command Quick Reference

Auth

Task Command
Sign in (opens browser) algolia auth login
Sign in (select app by name) algolia auth login --app-name "My App" --default
Sign in (no browser / SSH) algolia auth login --no-browser
Sign out algolia auth logout
Create new account algolia auth signup

Profile

Task Command
Add profile (non-interactive) algolia profile add --name "default" --app-id "<ID>" --api-key "<KEY>" --default
List profiles algolia profile list
Remove a profile algolia profile remove "<name>" -y
Set default profile algolia profile setdefault "<name>"

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 233 lines · 166 tokens per session scan A ac5bb884a55d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

algolia-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository algolia/skills (12 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 166 tokens to every session and 3,112 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.

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