vaex

vaex is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from G1Joshi/Agent-Skills. It costs 17 tokens per session (232 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python data tool for exploring very large files without loading all their data into memory. It keeps data on disk and computes columns as needed, using formats such as HDF5 and Arrow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for rapid exploration, fast string operations, and heatmap visualizations of very large datasets.
Why use it?
It lets you open and examine datasets that may be too large for ordinary in-memory data tools.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for rapid exploration, fast string operations, and heatmap visualizations of very large datasets.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/g1joshi/agent-skills/vaex
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 G1Joshi/Agent-Skills --skill vaex
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/G1Joshi/Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 232 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 $0.00017 $0.00232
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00116
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00023

Measured 8d ago against content hash 34301fd990f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vaex 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 8d 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/ai-ml/vaex/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Vaex

Vaex is a hidden gem. It uses Memory Mapping to open 100GB files instantly on a laptop and visualize them.

When to Use

  • Visualization: Plotting 1 billion points via heatmaps.
  • Instant Opening: No "loading" time for HDF5/Arrow files.
  • String Processing: Very fast string operations.

Core Concepts

Out-of-Core

Data stays on disk. Virtual columns are computed on the fly.

Binning

Aggregating data into a grid for visualization (heatmap) rather than plotting individual points.

Best Practices (2025)

Do:

  • Convert to HDF5/Arrow: Vaex shines with these formats.
  • Use it for EDA: Rapidly exploring massive datasets locally.

Don't:

  • Don't use for complex unrelated logic: It's specialized for columnar aggregation.

References

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. 8d ago First seen · 40 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 34301fd990f4

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vaex is a skill published in the GitHub repository G1Joshi/Agent-Skills (12 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 232 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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