meilisearch

meilisearch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ashish7802/awesome-api-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (562 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Meilisearch, an open-source search engine that tolerates typing mistakes and provides features such as highlighting and sorting. It covers adding JSON documents and searching them from an application.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create indexes, define primary keys, add and search JSON documents, wait for indexing tasks, handle communication errors, and restrict searches with tenant tokens.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unclear indexing behavior, unfinished indexing tasks, and unsafe direct searches. It also explains how to ensure newly added data is searchable before continuing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create indexes, define primary keys, add and search JSON documents, wait for indexing tasks, handle communication errors, and restrict searches with tenant tokens.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills/meilisearch
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 ashish7802/awesome-api-skills --skill meilisearch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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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 562 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 $0.00000 $0.00562
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00281
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00056

Measured 10d ago against content hash b3d797aa8a09, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

meilisearch 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (examples/basic.py, examples/index.ts, examples/search.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/meilisearch/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Meilisearch API Skill

Quick Start

Meilisearch is an open-source, typo-tolerant search engine optimized for developer experience.

npm install meilisearch

Common Workflows

Indexing and Searching

Add JSON documents to an index. Meilisearch automatically infers the schema. From the frontend or backend, query the index. It natively handles typos, highlighting, and sorting out of the box.

Production Patterns

Primary Keys

Always explicitly define the primaryKey when creating an index or passing documents. If omitted, Meilisearch will attempt to infer it (looking for id), which can lead to unpredictable behavior if your data uses UUIDs under custom field names.

Error Recovery

Handle MeiliSearchCommunicationError. Indexing in Meilisearch is asynchronous. Pushing documents returns a taskUid. You must poll client.waitForTask(taskUid) if you need to guarantee the data is searchable before proceeding.

Security Notes

Generate strict Tenant Tokens to allow frontend clients to search the database directly while enforcing security rules (e.g., restricting a user to only search documents where owner_id = 123).

Performance Considerations

While Meilisearch is extremely fast for reads, pushing thousands of documents individually is slow. Always batch document uploads in arrays of up to 100,000 documents per task to maximize throughput.

Testing Guidance

You can easily spin up a Meilisearch instance in a Docker container (getmeili/meilisearch) for CI/CD integration tests, destroying the container post-test.

Troubleshooting

If specific fields aren't returning in search results, verify the displayedAttributes setting. If filtering fails, ensure the field is explicitly added to filterableAttributes.

References

Why use this skill

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

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 10d ago First seen · 59 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A b3d797aa8a09

Subscribe to this mod's changes

meilisearch is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashish7802/awesome-api-skills (13 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 562 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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