altinity-expert-clickhouse-dictionaries

altinity-expert-clickhouse-dictionaries is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Altinity/altinity-skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (488 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A diagnostic guide for ClickHouse external dictionaries, which are lookup data sets loaded from outside the database.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect dictionary settings, memory, reload status, performance, and loading errors, and to choose reload or sizing adjustments.
Why use it?
It helps find configuration errors, failed loads, stale data, high memory use, and slow reloading.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to inspect dictionary settings, memory, reload status, performance, and loading errors, and to choose reload or sizing adjustments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/altinity/altinity-skills/altinity-expert-clickhouse-dictionaries
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Altinity/altinity-skills --skill altinity-expert-clickhouse-dictionaries
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Altinity/altinity-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 488 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00034 $0.00488
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00244
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00049

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5ad80a32cc9a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

altinity-expert-clickhouse-dictionaries 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 11d 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.

altinity-expert-clickhouse/skills/altinity-expert-clickhouse-dictionaries/SKILL.md · 85 lines

What it actually says

Dictionary Diagnostics

Analyze external dictionaries: configuration, memory usage, reload status, and performance.


Diagnostics

Run all queries from checks.sql in this skill's directory and analyze the results.


Dictionary Reload Operations

Force Reload (syntax reference)

-- SYSTEM RELOAD DICTIONARY {database}.{name}
-- SYSTEM RELOAD DICTIONARIES

Check Reload Result for Specific Dictionary

-- Check reload result
select
    name,
    status,
    loading_start_time,
    loading_duration,
    last_exception
from system.dictionaries
where name = '{dictionary_name}'

Best Practices

Dictionary Sizing Guidelines

Elements Recommended Type
< 100K Flat (if sequential keys)
100K - 10M Hashed
> 10M Consider partitioning or cache
Complex keys ComplexKeyHashed
Sparse access Cache with SSD

Common Issues

Symptom Cause Solution
High memory Too many elements Use cache type, filter data
Slow reload Large source table Add filters, use delta updates
Stale data Source unreachable Check connectivity, add retry
Failed status Source query fails Check source table/query

Cross-Module Triggers

Finding Load Module Reason
High memory usage altinity-expert-clickhouse-memory Overall memory analysis
Load failures altinity-expert-clickhouse-overview Error summary + routing
Source connectivity altinity-expert-clickhouse-logs Log investigation
Slow lookups altinity-expert-clickhouse-reporting Query optimization

Settings Reference

Setting Notes
dictionaries_lazy_load Load on first access vs startup
dictionary_load_wait_timeout_ms Wait time for lazy load
max_dictionary_num_to_warn Warning threshold
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 85 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 5ad80a32cc9a

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altinity-expert-clickhouse-dictionaries is a skill published in the GitHub repository Altinity/altinity-skills (16 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 488 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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