A guide to running an Exasol database locally in Docker, using notebook-connector tools to start, check, restart, and stop it.

Use it to start a local database, check whether it is ready, restart it, shut it down, and prepare its configuration for notebook or integration tests.

It removes the setup work involved in creating a local Exasol environment for development and testing.

exasol-itde — Skill for Claude Code by exasol-labs/exasol-agent-skills

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 exasol-labs/exasol-agent-skills --skill exasol-itde

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/exasol-labs/exasol-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install exasol, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 2 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 564 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00055	$0.00564
Opus 5.5	$0.00022	$0.00226
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00011	$0.00113
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00056

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 9452b744264f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

exasol-itde 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/bring_itde_up.py, scripts/check_itde_status.py, scripts/restart_itde.py, …), 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.

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.

plugins/exasol/skills/exasol-itde/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Exasol ITDE Skill

Trigger when the user mentions ITDE, docker-db, local Exasol Docker database, bring_itde_up, restart_itde, take_itde_down, or local notebook-connector database setup.

Routing Algorithm

Start local Docker DB
- Trigger phrases: bring_itde_up, start local exasol, docker-db
- Load: references/itde-lifecycle.md
- Use scripts from: scripts/
Check status / restart / tear down
- Trigger phrases: get_itde_status, restart_itde, take_itde_down, container status
- Load: references/itde-lifecycle.md
- Use scripts from: scripts/
Config not present yet
- Activate exasol-notebook-connector-config

Validation

Use the lifecycle scripts to validate the stored ITDE setup:

run scripts/check_itde_status.py after setup changes
after bring_itde_up, expect ItdeContainerStatus.READY
if the next step is the shared exasol-notebook-connector-config validation flow, save storage_backend=onprem first because bring_itde_up(...) does not populate that key itself
set db_schema yourself before handing off to schema-dependent workflows such as SQLAlchemy, Ibis, TE, or TXAIE validation
after teardown, expect ABSENT or a clean no-container state

Expected failure mode:

scripts/restart_itde.py should raise a runtime error if the Docker-DB container does not exist yet
shared setup validation can fail with missing storage_backend or db_schema even when ITDE itself is healthy, because those keys are not written by bring_itde_up(...)
if status checks fail because the store is missing, switch back to exasol-notebook-connector-config

Notes

ITDE is the easiest local development database path for notebook-connector.
bring_itde_up populates the secure config store with the generated DB and BucketFS connection details automatically.
bring_itde_up does not populate storage_backend or db_schema.
After ITDE is ready, other notebook-connector connection APIs can be used without manual DB/BucketFS entry.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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.

2mo ago Changed 9452b744264f
2mo ago First seen · 47 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 96a04bb1071b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

exasol-itde is a skill published in the GitHub repository exasol-labs/exasol-agent-skills (10 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 564 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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