read-file

read-file is a skill for Claude Code from carlopi/duckdb-claude-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (942 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A data-file reading tool that finds a file by name and opens formats such as CSV, JSON, Parquet, Avro, Excel, and spatial data.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps inspect and explore tabular, structured, spreadsheet, and spatial data files.
Why use it?
It avoids writing separate code or choosing a different reader for each file format.

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 It helps inspect and explore tabular, structured, spreadsheet, and spatial data files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/carlopi/duckdb-claude-skills/read-file
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 read-file
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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for read-file

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 942 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.
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 $0.00054 $0.00942
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00471
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00094

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4b682ef0c738, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

read-file 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.

skills/read-file/SKILL.md · 83 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.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 83 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 4b682ef0c738

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read-file is a skill published in the GitHub repository carlopi/duckdb-claude-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 942 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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