capture-mysql-create

capture-mysql-create is a skill for Claude Code from estuary/agent-skills. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,942 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup guide for connecting MySQL to Estuary so changes in MySQL tables are streamed into Estuary collections. CDC, or change data capture, reads MySQL's binary log, the record of database changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a MySQL, Amazon RDS MySQL, Aurora MySQL, Google Cloud SQL MySQL, or Azure MySQL capture with flowctl.
Why use it?
It gathers the required database settings, permissions, and cloud-specific details before creating the connection. This reduces setup errors when using self-hosted MySQL or managed versions such as Amazon RDS and Aurora.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the estuary-captures plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a MySQL, Amazon RDS MySQL, Aurora MySQL, Google Cloud SQL MySQL, or Azure MySQL capture with flowctl.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/estuary/agent-skills/capture-mysql-create
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add estuary/agent-skills --skill capture-mysql-create
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/estuary/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install estuary-captures, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,942 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 $0.00073 $0.01942
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00971
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00194

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4841eaa98c2f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

capture-mysql-create 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.

skills/capture-mysql-create/SKILL.md · 215 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 215 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create MySQL Capture

Create a MySQL capture using flowctl to stream data from MySQL tables into Estuary collections using Change Data Capture (CDC) via binary log (binlog) replication.

Applies to: source-mysql, source-amazon-rds-mysql, source-amazon-aurora-mysql, source-google-cloud-sql-mysql, source-azure-mysql

Step 0: Load Connector Documentation

Before proceeding, fetch the official connector docs for prerequisites, config reference, and cloud-specific setup.

Always load the main page: https://docs.estuary.dev/reference/Connectors/capture-connectors/MySQL/

Then load the variant subpage based on the user's MySQL type:

Variant Docs URL
Self-hosted MySQL Main page covers this
Amazon Aurora MySQL Main page covers this
Amazon RDS MySQL https://docs.estuary.dev/reference/Connectors/capture-connectors/MySQL/amazon-rds-mysql/
Google Cloud SQL MySQL https://docs.estuary.dev/reference/Connectors/capture-connectors/MySQL/google-cloud-sql-mysql/

Use WebFetch to load these pages. Together they cover:

  • Prerequisites (binlog format, user permissions, binlog retention)
  • Full config property reference
  • Cloud-specific setup instructions
  • SSH tunnel configuration
  • Network access / IP allowlisting
  • Troubleshooting common errors

This skill provides the flowctl workflow and decision logic that docs don't cover.

Step 1: Gather Requirements

Before writing any YAML, ask the user:

  1. MySQL variant? — Self-hosted, Amazon RDS, Aurora MySQL, Google Cloud SQL, or Azure
  2. Network path? — Direct connection (cloud with IP allowlist), SSH tunnel (private network), Private Link (AWS/Azure/GCP), or ngrok (local dev)
  3. Non-default data plane? — Most users use the default. Ask if they need a non-default data plane.
  4. Tables to capture? — All tables or specific subset
  5. History mode? — Standard CDC (false) or full event history (true)
  6. DATETIME columns? — If yes, need timezone config (e.g., America/New_York)

Read the full file on GitHub · 215 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 First seen · 215 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 4841eaa98c2f

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capture-mysql-create is a skill published in the GitHub repository estuary/agent-skills (7 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,942 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 2026-08-31.

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