managing-cluster-settings

managing-cluster-settings is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills. It costs 90 tokens per session (2,508 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A procedure for reviewing and changing CockroachDB cluster settings, which control database behavior such as performance and replication. The available controls depend on whether the cluster is self-hosted or managed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit configuration, tune performance or replication, investigate a specific issue, verify settings after an upgrade, or manage an enterprise license on self-hosted clusters.
Why use it?
It helps operators understand which settings they can change, find differences from defaults, and avoid using the wrong procedure for their deployment tier.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to audit configuration, tune performance or replication, investigate a specific issue, verify settings after an upgrade, or manage an enterprise license on self-hosted clusters.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills/managing-cluster-settings
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 cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills --skill managing-cluster-settings
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,508 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 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 $0.00090 $0.02508
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.01254
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00502
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00251

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5d9493a26475, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

managing-cluster-settings 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.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/cockroachdb-operations-and-lifecycle/managing-cluster-settings/SKILL.md · 294 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 294 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Managing Cluster Settings

Reviews, audits, and modifies CockroachDB cluster settings. Before providing procedures, this skill gathers context to determine which settings are available and which modification approach to recommend for the operator's tier.

When to Use This Skill

  • Auditing cluster configuration for production readiness
  • Identifying settings that deviate from defaults
  • Tuning performance, replication, or admission control
  • Verifying settings after an upgrade or incident
  • Understanding which settings are modifiable on your tier
  • Managing enterprise license installation and renewal (Self-Hosted)

For version management: Use upgrading-cluster-version — do not change settings during an upgrade. For health checks: Use reviewing-cluster-health.


Step 1: Gather Context

Required Context

Question Options Why It Matters
Deployment tier? Self-Hosted, Advanced, BYOC, Standard, Basic Determines which settings are viewable and modifiable
Goal? Audit/review, Tune performance, Fix specific issue, Post-upgrade verification Directs which queries and procedures to use

Additional Context (by tier)

If Self-Hosted:

Question Options Why It Matters
SQL access level? admin, MODIFYCLUSTERSETTING, VIEWCLUSTERSETTING Determines available operations
Specific setting or area? e.g., "timeout", "replication", "gc" Narrows search to relevant settings
Currently mid-upgrade? Yes, No Settings must NOT be changed during rolling upgrades

If Advanced or BYOC:

Question Options Why It Matters
SQL access level? admin, limited Determines available operations
Specific setting or area? e.g., "timeout", "rangefeed" Narrows search

If Standard or Basic: No additional context needed — settings access is limited. Session variables are the primary tuning mechanism.

Read the full file on GitHub · 294 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · 294 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 5d9493a26475

Subscribe to this mod's changes

managing-cluster-settings is a skill published in the GitHub repository cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills (21 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 2,508 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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