profiling-transaction-fingerprints

profiling-transaction-fingerprints is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (4,724 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for examining historical CockroachDB transaction statistics. A transaction is a group of database statements that succeeds or fails as one unit; the analysis shows which groups are retried, delayed by conflicts, or slow to commit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding transactions with many retries, studying commit-latency trends, investigating contention or retry storms, and reviewing past transaction behavior using SQL.
Why use it?
A database may show repeated failures or delays without making the responsible transaction obvious. This analysis connects retry and contention problems to the statement combinations that caused them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Finding transactions with many retries, studying commit-latency trends, investigating contention or retry storms, and reviewing past transaction behavior using SQL.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills/profiling-transaction-fingerprints
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 profiling-transaction-fingerprints
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,724 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 $0.00080 $0.04724
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.02362
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00945
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00472

Measured 11d ago against content hash d1c2effea35e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

profiling-transaction-fingerprints 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/cockroachdb-observability-and-diagnostics/profiling-transaction-fingerprints/SKILL.md · 395 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 395 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Profiling Transaction Fingerprints

Analyzes historical transaction performance patterns using aggregated SQL statistics to identify high-retry transactions, contention patterns, and commit latency issues. Uses crdb_internal.transaction_statistics for time-windowed analysis of retry behavior, commit latency, and statement composition - entirely via SQL without requiring DB Console access.

Complement to profiling-statement-fingerprints: This skill analyzes transaction-level patterns (groups of statements with retry behavior); for statement-level optimization, see profiling-statement-fingerprints.

Complement to triaging-live-sql-activity: This skill analyzes historical transaction patterns; for immediate triage of currently active transactions, see triaging-live-sql-activity.

When to Use This Skill

  • Identify transactions with high retry counts
  • Analyze commit latency trends for transaction fingerprints
  • Find transactions with high contention at transaction boundary
  • Understand statement composition of problematic transactions
  • Investigate transaction retry storms or abort patterns
  • SQL-only historical transaction analysis without DB Console access

For immediate incident response: Use triaging-live-sql-activity to triage currently active transactions and cancel runaway work. For statement-level optimization: Use profiling-statement-fingerprints to analyze individual query patterns.

Prerequisites

  • SQL connection to CockroachDB cluster
  • VIEWACTIVITY or VIEWACTIVITYREDACTED cluster privilege for cluster-wide visibility
    • Same privilege requirements as profiling-statement-fingerprints
  • Understanding of transaction performance concepts
  • Transaction statistics collection enabled (default): sql.stats.automatic_collection.enabled = true

Check transaction stats collection:

SHOW CLUSTER SETTING sql.stats.automatic_collection.enabled;
-- Should return: true

Read the full file on GitHub · 395 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 11d ago First seen · 395 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A d1c2effea35e

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profiling-transaction-fingerprints is a skill published in the GitHub repository cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills (21 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 4,724 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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