install-duckdb

install-duckdb is a skill for Claude Code from duckdb/duckdb-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (674 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A helper for installing or updating DuckDB extensions. DuckDB extensions add support for extra data formats or database features.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install named extensions or update existing ones, provided the DuckDB command-line tool is available.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually construct installation commands and handles extensions from DuckDB's core or community repositories.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the duckdb-skills plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to install named extensions or update existing ones, provided the DuckDB command-line tool is available.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install duckdb-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 674 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 23 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 23 Mar 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00048 $0.00674
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00337
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00067

Measured 10d ago against content hash 598c588cb55c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

install-duckdb 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (eval.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

> - Linux: `curl -fsSL https://install.duckdb.org | sh`

Makes network callslowCapability

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

> - Linux: `curl -fsSL https://install.duckdb.org | sh`
skills/install-duckdb/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arguments: $@

Each extension argument has the form name or name@repo.

  • nameINSTALL name;
  • name@repoINSTALL name FROM repo;

Step 1 — Locate DuckDB

DUCKDB=$(command -v duckdb)

If not found, tell the user:

DuckDB is not installed. Install it first with one of:

  • macOS: brew install duckdb
  • Linux: curl -fsSL https://install.duckdb.org | sh
  • Windows: winget install DuckDB.cli

Then re-run /duckdb-skills:install-duckdb.

Stop if DuckDB is not found.

Step 2 — Check for --update flag

If --update is present in $@, remove it from the argument list and set mode to update. Otherwise mode is install.

Step 3 — Build and run statements

Install mode:

Parse each remaining argument:

  • If it contains @, split on @INSTALL <name> FROM <repo>;
  • Otherwise → INSTALL <name>;

Run all in a single DuckDB call:

"$DUCKDB" :memory: -c "INSTALL <ext1>; INSTALL <ext2> FROM <repo2>; ..."

Update mode:

First, check if the DuckDB CLI itself is up to date:

CURRENT=$(duckdb --version | grep -oE '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+')
LATEST=$(curl -fsSL https://duckdb.org/data/latest_stable_version.txt)
  • If CURRENT == LATEST → report DuckDB CLI is up to date.

  • If CURRENT != LATEST → ask the user:

    DuckDB CLI is outdated (installed: CURRENT, latest: LATEST). Upgrade now?

    If the user agrees, detect the platform and run the appropriate upgrade command:

    • macOS (brew available): brew upgrade duckdb
    • Linux: curl -fsSL https://install.duckdb.org | sh
    • Windows: winget upgrade DuckDB.cli

Then update extensions:

  • No extension names → update all: UPDATE EXTENSIONS;
  • With extension names → update in a single call (ignore @repo): UPDATE EXTENSIONS (<name1>, <name2>, ...);
"$DUCKDB" :memory: -c "UPDATE EXTENSIONS;"
# or
"$DUCKDB" :memory: -c "UPDATE EXTENSIONS (<ext1>, <ext2>, ...);"

Report success or failure after the call completes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 84 lines · 48 tokens per session scan C 598c588cb55c

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install-duckdb is a skill published in the GitHub repository duckdb/duckdb-skills (540 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 674 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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