clickhouse-managed-postgres-rca

clickhouse-managed-postgres-rca is a skill for Claude Code from ClickHouse/agent-skills. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,178 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An evidence-based guide for investigating performance problems on a ClickHouse-managed Postgres database. It uses system metrics and grouped slow-query statistics to build a root-cause analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when the managed Postgres instance is slow, has high CPU, low throughput, cache problems, or other unexplained performance issues.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish system-level pressure from slow query patterns without pretending to have query plans or other unavailable database details.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the clickhouse-best-practices plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when the managed Postgres instance is slow, has high CPU, low throughput, cache problems, or other unexplained performance issues.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/clickhouse/agent-skills/clickhouse-managed-postgres-rca
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 ClickHouse/agent-skills --skill clickhouse-managed-postgres-rca
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ClickHouse/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install clickhouse-best-practices, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,178 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
  • Socket pass 12 Jun 2026
  • Snyk fail 12 Jun 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 55
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00064 $0.01178
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00589
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00118

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9c6b082aea70, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clickhouse-managed-postgres-rca 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 8d 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/clickhouse-managed-postgres-rca/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ClickHouse Managed Postgres RCA

When to use

Trigger whenever a user reports slowness, high CPU, low throughput, cache thrash, or any unexplained pain on a ClickHouse-managed Postgres instance.

What you have access to

Two APIs on https://api.clickhouse.cloud (HTTP Basic auth using a ClickHouse Cloud API key/secret pair):

  • Prometheus metrics — operation postgresInstancePrometheusGet under the Prometheus tag. Returns Prometheus exposition format. System and workload metrics for one Postgres service.
  • Slow Query Patterns — operation slowQueryPatternsGetList under the Postgres tag. Returns per-digest latency, IO, and call statistics for normalized query patterns. Beta.

Both endpoints require an organizationId and a serviceId as path parameters. The user must supply both, plus the API key/secret pair.

What you do NOT have

  • Query plans / EXPLAIN output.
  • Per-table scan-type counters (seq_scan / idx_scan).
  • Autovacuum or last-ANALYZE timestamps.

Reason from IO and timing signals, not from a plan tree.

Workflow

Six steps, in order. Do not skip ahead.

Steps 2 and 3 only share auth — no data dependency between them. Run them in parallel (background curls, & + wait) to cut wall time from sequential ~2s to ~1s.

1. Discover the live API shape

These endpoints are Beta — paths, params, and JSON field names can shift. Follow rules/openapi-discovery.md to:

  1. Fetch the OpenAPI spec from https://api.clickhouse.cloud/v1.
  2. Locate the two operations by operationId:
    • postgresInstancePrometheusGet (Prometheus tag)
    • slowQueryPatternsGetList (Postgres tag)
  3. Resolve their path templates, required query parameters, and (for the slow-query endpoint) the response schema.
  4. Build a session-scoped role map from the schema property descriptions: { semantic role → actual field name }.

Use the resolved names in every subsequent request and citation. Never hardcode field names from memory.

2. Scrape Prom once for system gauges

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 131 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 9c6b082aea70

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clickhouse-managed-postgres-rca is a skill published in the GitHub repository ClickHouse/agent-skills (530 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,178 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 2026-08-30.

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