clickhouse

clickhouse is a skill for Claude Code from cline/skills. It costs 87 tokens per session (1,921 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for connecting to and querying ClickHouse, a database designed for fast analysis of large datasets, through its official command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for logging in, inspecting ClickHouse Cloud services and tables, and running SQL against a local ClickHouse server or a cloud service.
Why use it?
It explains authentication, server selection, and safe querying without requiring a separate database interface.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the cline plugin — 43 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for logging in, inspecting ClickHouse Cloud services and tables, and…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cline/skills/clickhouse
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 cline/skills --skill clickhouse
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cline/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cline, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,921 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 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 $0.00087 $0.01921
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00960
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00384
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00192

Measured 7d ago against content hash e2d82fe9b3f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

clickhouse 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 7d 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.

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.

curl -fsSL https://clickhouse.com/cli | sh

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -fsSL https://clickhouse.com/cli | sh
skills/data-analyst/skills/clickhouse/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ClickHouse via clickhousectl

Connect to ClickHouse and run queries using clickhousectl, the official ClickHouse CLI. This skill covers the parts a data analyst needs: authenticating, pointing at the right server, and running safe SQL. It does not use the ClickHouse MCP server; everything goes through the CLI.

Scope

This skill is for connecting and querying. For these other flows, use the bundled official ClickHouse skills (siblings in this directory) instead of reinventing them:

  • Setting up a local dev environment from scratch (install ClickHouse, init a project, start a server, create schema): ../clickhousectl-local-dev/.
  • Deploying to or migrating into ClickHouse Cloud (create a service, migrate schema, provision an app user): ../clickhousectl-cloud-deploy/.
  • Writing or optimizing non-trivial SQL, or the agent schema-discovery and query-safety workflow: ../clickhouse-best-practices/.
  • Running SQL on local files or remote sources without a server: ../chdb-sql/.

These are vendored from https://github.com/ClickHouse/agent-skills (Apache-2.0). They can also be installed standalone with clickhousectl skills or npx skills add clickhouse/agent-skills.

Step 1: Ensure clickhousectl is installed

which clickhousectl

If not found, install it (downloads the right build for the OS, installs to ~/.local/bin/clickhousectl, and creates a chctl alias):

curl -fsSL https://clickhouse.com/cli | sh

If the command is still not found after install, ~/.local/bin is not on PATH for this session:

export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"

Step 2: Identify the target

Decide what you are querying before authenticating. There are three cases:

  • A local ClickHouse server managed by clickhousectl (started via clickhousectl local server start). Query it by name. No cloud auth needed.
  • Any reachable ClickHouse over host/port (local or remote). No cloud auth needed.
  • A ClickHouse Cloud service. Requires cloud authentication (Step 3).

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 7d ago First seen · 157 lines · 87 tokens per session scan C e2d82fe9b3f8

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clickhouse is a skill published in the GitHub repository cline/skills (23 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 1,921 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-30.

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