elasticsearch-reindex

elasticsearch-reindex is a skill for Claude Code from elastic/agent-skills. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,982 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A procedure for copying documents from one Elasticsearch index or data stream to another. It covers preparing the destination, selecting local or remote copying, filtering records, running long jobs in the background, and checking completion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when migrating indices, changing mappings, copying only part of a dataset, or transforming documents during an Elasticsearch reindex operation.
Why use it?
Moving data or changing its structure can be slow and can leave an incomplete destination if it is not monitored. This procedure provides steps for controlled copying and verification.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

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

Part of the elastic-elasticsearch plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when migrating indices, changing mappings, copying only part of a dataset, or transforming documents during an Elasticsearch reindex operation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elastic/agent-skills/elasticsearch-reindex
About the project

Elastic Agent Skills is a library of instruction packages that teach AI coding agents how to work with Elastic products, including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Elastic Observability, and Elastic Security. Developers use the skills for tasks such as API work, Kibana content management, observability, and security workflows. The catalogue entries are skills and plugins from this library.

elastic/agent-skills · 575 stars · on GitHub

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 elastic/agent-skills --skill elasticsearch-reindex
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elastic/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install elastic-elasticsearch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,982 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 25
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 35
    Subtle instructions detected that may alter agent decision-making or introduce hidden biases.
    Fix: Review content for implicit steering or bias. Ensure instructions are explicit and align with the skill's stated purpose.
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 $0.00040 $0.02982
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01491
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00596
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00298

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2a68f35f40ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

elasticsearch-reindex 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 6d 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

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/elasticsearch/skills/elasticsearch-reindex/SKILL.md · 211 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Elasticsearch Reindex

Copy documents from source indices or data streams to a destination using POST /_reindex. An expert reindex workflow prepares the destination explicitly, chooses local versus remote execution, filters at the source when only a subset is needed, runs long copies asynchronously, tracks the task to completion, and verifies the destination document count before reporting results.

Environment Configuration

This skill executes Elasticsearch operations through the elastic CLI. If the elastic CLI is not installed, tell the user what it is needed for. Do not guess credentials, call the HTTP API directly, or attempt other workarounds.

This skill references operations in HTTP-shorthand form (e.g., GET /, GET /_cat/indices, GET /{index}/_mapping, GET /{index}/_settings/index.mode, POST /_query). The Operations table at the end of this document maps each shorthand to the equivalent elastic CLI command — always use the CLI rather than calling the HTTP API directly.

Process

  1. Confirm connectivity and deployment type. Call GET /. Read build_flavor and version.number to know whether shard, replica, and cluster-settings APIs are available (Serverless manages shards/replicas internally and blocks most _cluster/* APIs). The decision: continue only when the cluster is reachable. If the call fails, stop — do not guess endpoints or credentials.

  2. Decide local versus remote reindex. Compare where the source and destination live.

    • Same cluster — use local reindex: source.index and dest.index only. Do not add source.remote when both indices are on the cluster you are connected to.
    • Different cluster — use reindex from remote: add source.remote with the remote cluster URL and credentials. Remote reindex does not support slicing; compensate with query-based partitioning (date ranges, term filters) across parallel requests. Confirm the remote host is allowlisted on Self-Managed / ECH (reindex.remote.whitelist in cluster config); Serverless manages allowlisting internally (ECH remotes only, Tech Preview).

Read the full file on GitHub · 211 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 6d ago First seen · 211 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 2a68f35f40ca

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elasticsearch-reindex is a skill published in the GitHub repository elastic/agent-skills (575 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,982 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-05.

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