api-mirror

api-mirror is a skill for Claude Code from cyanheads/nhtsa-vehicle-safety-mcp-server. It costs 68 tokens per session (2,510 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of api-mirror, Apache-2.0.

A guide for keeping a local copy of a large or slow-changing upstream dataset updated. The mirror stores records in embedded SQLite, a small database kept with the application, and can provide full-text search through FTS5.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build a self-refreshing local index for datasets such as research papers, including the source-specific sync process, schema, checkpoints, and search fields.
Why use it?
It avoids repeatedly paging through a live external API for every request and lets the server search locally cached data.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ./scripts/.

Part of the nhtsa-vehicle-safety-mcp-server plugin — 33 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to build a self-refreshing local index for datasets such as research papers, including the source-specific sync process, schema, checkpoints, and search fields.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyanheads/nhtsa-vehicle-safety-mcp-server
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cyanheads/nhtsa-vehicle-safety-mcp-server/api-mirror

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nhtsa-vehicle-safety-mcp-server, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,510 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00068 $0.02510
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.01004
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00502
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00251

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9f413113d4e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-mirror 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 9d 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

This is a copy

100% identical to api-mirror — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

framework-skills/api-mirror/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context

The MirrorService owns the source-agnostic half of a local mirror — the embedded store, the sync-state machine, the runner — so a server supplies only the two parts that are irreducibly per-source: the ingester (a sync generator) and the schema. It targets the embedded-SQLite tier (~10⁴–10⁷ rows). Node/Bun only: bun:sqlite is built-in on Bun, better-sqlite3 is an optional peer dependency on Node; the store is unavailable on Workers (no SQLite, no persistent filesystem).

Import from @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/mirror.

The shape

import { defineMirror, sqliteMirrorStore } from '@cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/mirror';

const papers = defineMirror({
  name: 'arxiv-papers',
  store: sqliteMirrorStore({
    path: config.mirrorPath,
    table: 'papers',                                 // primary table; FTS index is `papers_fts`
    primaryKey: 'id',
    columns: { id: 'TEXT', title: 'TEXT', authors: 'TEXT', abstract: 'TEXT', updated: 'TEXT' },
    fts: ['title', 'authors', 'abstract'],          // opt-in FTS5 external-content index
    indexes: [{ columns: ['updated'] }],
  }),
  // The ingester — the one part that is always server-specific.
  async *sync({ mode, cursor, checkpoint, signal }) {
    for await (const page of harvestPages({ resumeFrom: cursor, since: checkpoint, signal })) {
      yield {
        records: page.rows,             // objects keyed by declared column
        tombstones: page.deletedIds,    // primary-key values to delete
        cursor: page.token,             // volatile resume position (see below)
        checkpoint: page.maxStamp,      // durable high-water mark (see below)
      };
    }
  },
});

await papers.runSync({ mode: 'init', signal: AbortSignal.timeout(3_600_000) }); // full; resumes on interrupt
await papers.runSync({ mode: 'refresh' });                                       // incremental
const { rows, total } = await papers.query({ match: 'transformers', limit: 10, offset: 0 });
const status = await papers.status();   // { status, ready, checkpoint, total, ... }

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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. 9d ago Changed · +4 lines 9f413113d4e8
  2. 28d ago Changed · +2 lines c798117ba567
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 133 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 89b98aefc722

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api-mirror is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/nhtsa-vehicle-safety-mcp-server (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 2,510 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to api-mirror, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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