kb-query

kb-query is a skill for Claude Code from davidmatousek/agentic-oriented-development-kit. It costs 70 tokens per session (2,480 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of kb-query, MIT.

A search tool for an organisation’s internal knowledge base, using everyday-language questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up solutions for technical problems, search by topic or category, filter by quality score, and retrieve relevant knowledge entries.
Why use it?
It helps developers find documented solutions, patterns, and bug fixes without manually searching through all internal records.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to look up solutions for technical problems, search by topic or category, filter by quality score, and retrieve relevant knowledge entries.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davidmatousek/agentic-oriented-development-kit/kb-query
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 davidmatousek/agentic-oriented-development-kit --skill kb-query
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davidmatousek/agentic-oriented-development-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for kb-query

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/davidmatousek/agentic-oriented-development-kit/kb-query/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/davidmatousek/agentic-oriented-development-kit/kb-query)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/davidmatousek/agentic-oriented-development-kit/kb-query"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/davidmatousek/agentic-oriented-development-kit/kb-query/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for kb-query

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/davidmatousek/agentic-oriented-development-kit/kb-query"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/davidmatousek/agentic-oriented-development-kit/kb-query.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,480 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 $0.00070 $0.02480
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00992
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00496
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00248

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2566d849b386, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kb-query 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 1mo 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 kb-query — 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.

.claude/skills/kb-query/SKILL.md · 392 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 392 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

KB Query Skill

Purpose

Interactive Knowledge Base search with natural language queries, providing fast access to institutional knowledge through relevance-ranked results with quality scoring.

How It Works

Step 1: Accept Query

User provides search query or problem description:

User: "Search KB for database connection pool issues"

Step 2: Execute Search

Run KB search with intelligent parameters:

# Basic search
make kb-search QUERY="database connection pool"

# With category filter
make kb-search QUERY="JWT authentication" CATEGORY=AUTH

# With quality threshold
make kb-search QUERY="performance optimization" MIN_SCORE=70

# All parameters
make kb-search QUERY="redis cache" CATEGORY=CACHE MIN_SCORE=60 LIMIT=10

Step 3: Display Results

Show top results with relevance and quality scores:

Search Results for "database connection pool"

Found 3 patterns:

1. DB-005: PostgreSQL Connection Pool Optimization
   Category: DB | Quality: 85/100 | Relevance: 9.2/10
   Keywords: postgresql, connection-pool, optimization, performance
   Problems solved:
   - Connection pool exhaustion under load
   - Slow query performance due to connection limits

2. PERF-002: Connection Pool Tuning Guide
   Category: PERF | Quality: 78/100 | Relevance: 8.5/10
   Keywords: connection-pool, tuning, performance, scalability
   Problems solved:
   - Optimizing pool size for workload
   - Monitoring pool utilization

3. DB-002: Database Connection Retry Logic
   Category: DB | Quality: 72/100 | Relevance: 7.1/10
   Keywords: database, connection, retry, error-handling
   Problems solved:
   - Transient connection failures
   - Graceful degradation on DB issues

Step 4: Offer Actions

Interactive follow-up options:

Actions:
1. View full content of a pattern (enter 1-3)
2. Search with different parameters
3. Browse by category
4. Exit

Your choice:

Step 5: View Full Content (if requested)

Display complete pattern details:

# Read full pattern file
cat docs/kb/patterns/DB-005-postgresql-connection-pool.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 392 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. 1mo ago First seen · 392 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 2566d849b386

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kb-query is a skill published in the GitHub repository davidmatousek/agentic-oriented-development-kit (24 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 2,480 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 kb-query, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

local-ai-agents

Build local-first AI agents that run entirely on a developer workstation with Microsoft Foundry Local and Qwen function-calling models. Covers Small Language Models (SLMs), the OpenAI-compatible local endpoint, sandboxed local tools, local RAG with Chroma, local MCP servers, hybrid cloud/local routing, and the…

microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners · 200 tokens

systematic-debugging

Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes.

obra/superpowers · 21 tokens

next-cache-components-adoption

Turn on Cache Components in a Next.js app and resolve the blocking routes it surfaces. Use when the user wants to enable, adopt, or migrate to Cache Components, flip the cacheComponents flag, work through a flood of blocking-prerender / instant validation errors, run the cache-components-instant-false codemod, or…

vercel/next.js · 95 tokens

chat-pet-sprite-creation

Use when creating or changing VS Code chat pet sprite art, sprite sheets, state animations, eye treatments, Stable/Insiders variants, or pet transitions under src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/widget/media/chatPet.

microsoft/vscode · 53 tokens

cpu-profile-analysis

Analyze V8/Chrome CPU profiles (.cpuprofile) and DevTools trace files (Trace-.json). Use when: profiling performance, investigating slow functions, comparing code paths, finding bottlenecks, analyzing timeToRequest, understanding call trees from sampling profiler data, analyzing layout/paint/rendering, investigating…

microsoft/vscode · 71 tokens

insight-error-page

Write or audit an insight-kind error page for the Next.js dev overlay. Use when creating a new errors/ .mdx page, auditing an existing one, or checking that a page matches the framework fix cards. Covers page structure, title alignment, FixCard cards with Copy prompt button, code snippets, terminology verification…

vercel/next.js · 83 tokens