install-duckdb

install-duckdb is a skill for Claude Code from carlopi/duckdb-claude-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (677 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

A skill for installing or updating DuckDB, a database designed to run analytical SQL on local data. It locates DuckDB, checks for an update option, and builds and runs statements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Locating DuckDB, checking whether to update it, and running the described build and SQL statements.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a defined process for finding DuckDB and handling installation or updates instead of leaving those steps unspecified.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the duckdb-claude-skills plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Locating DuckDB, checking whether to update it, and running the described build and SQL statements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/carlopi/duckdb-claude-skills/install-duckdb
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 carlopi/duckdb-claude-skills --skill install-duckdb
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/carlopi/duckdb-claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install duckdb-claude-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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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 677 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00677
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00338
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00068

Measured 12d ago against content hash 04cc555e2073, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

install-duckdb scanned grade C with 2 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (eval.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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

> - Linux: `curl -fsSL https://install.duckdb.org | sh`

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

> - Linux: `curl -fsSL https://install.duckdb.org | sh`
skills/install-duckdb/SKILL.md · 84 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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. 12d ago First seen · 84 lines · 0 tokens per session scan C 04cc555e2073

Subscribe to this mod's changes

install-duckdb is a skill published in the GitHub repository carlopi/duckdb-claude-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 677 tokens. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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