firebase

firebase is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ashish7802/awesome-api-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (441 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to the Firebase Admin SDK, a server-side library for managing Firebase services with trusted privileges. Firebase provides a document database, user authentication, and push notifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Connecting a server to Firestore, creating login tokens, sending Firebase Cloud Messaging notifications, and handling batches, transactions, and errors.
Why use it?
It explains how to perform server operations that client applications should not be allowed to perform, while highlighting the risks of exposing admin credentials.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills/firebase
Any agent
npx skills add ashish7802/awesome-api-skills --skill firebase
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 441 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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00441
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00220
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00044

Measured 6d ago against content hash c65f3ce6339a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

firebase 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (examples/example.py, examples/example.ts, tests/skill.test.ts), 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/firebase/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Firebase Admin API Skill

Overview

Firebase Admin SDK allows privileged server environments to interact with Firestore, Auth, and Cloud Messaging.

Installation

npm install firebase-admin
pip install firebase-admin

Authentication

Authenticate using a Google Cloud Service Account key JSON file or Application Default Credentials (ADC).

Core Concepts

  • Firestore: NoSQL document database.
  • Custom Tokens: JWTs minted on the server to log users into the client SDK.
  • FCM: Firebase Cloud Messaging for push notifications.

Common Workflows

  1. Initialize initializeApp({ credential: cert(serviceAccount) }).
  2. Access Firestore: getFirestore().
  3. Perform operations bypassing security rules.

Error Handling

Catch FirebaseError. Error codes match RPC statuses (e.g., not-found, already-exists).

Security

Service accounts have absolute God-mode access. Never deploy an Admin SDK service account key to a client application.

Rate Limits

Firestore allows 10,000 writes per second per database. Batch operations are limited to 500 documents per batch.

Best Practices

Use batch() for multiple writes to ensure atomicity. Use runTransaction() when a write depends on the current value of a document.

Troubleshooting

If initialized multiple times, the SDK throws a 'default app already exists' error. Check getApps().length before initializing.

References

Why use this skill

Use this when your agent works with firebase — structured patterns beat pasted docs and prevent common hallucinations.

AI pitfalls

  • Inventing column names or schema fields
  • Using deprecated driver methods or wrong connection strings
  • Omitting connection pooling or transaction boundaries

Production checklist

  • Migrations version-controlled and applied via CI
  • Connection limits and pooling configured
  • Backups and restore procedure documented
  • No graph relationships yet — see the knowledge graph in the docs site.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 6d ago First seen · 61 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c65f3ce6339a

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firebase is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashish7802/awesome-api-skills (13 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 441 tokens. 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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