clay-search-query

clay-search-query is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Growth-Today/claude-skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (35,952 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A tool for turning a plain-language description of people, companies, or jobs into a search query for Clay. Clay is a data platform for finding and researching business contacts, organizations, and hiring activity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build or refine Clay searches for leads, target companies, candidates, job postings, work history, education, and other people or company criteria.
Why use it?
It helps translate vague audience requirements into filters that Clay Search can use. It also highlights criteria that Clay cannot represent in a query.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to build or refine Clay searches for leads, target companies, candidates, job postings, work history, education, and other people or company criteria.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/growth-today/claude-skills/clay-search-query
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Growth-Today/claude-skills --skill clay-search-query
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Growth-Today/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 35,952 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00065 $0.35952
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.17976
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.07190
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.03595

Measured 12d ago against content hash da1ad408275b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

clay-search-query scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 12d 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.

Subtle steeringmediumPrompt injection

Instructions that bias recommendations or shape behaviour without the user noticing.

Mapping an informal or fuzzy vertical label to the closest `industry` value(s) is the expected, fully-captured behavior — the label IS handled by that `industry in (...)` filter. NEVER tell the user a vertical you mapped
clay-search-query/SKILL.md · 1,943 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,943 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clay search query reference

Use this reference to author a Clay advanced search query.

External usage:

  • The final Clay search query can be pasted into Clay Search and then used with tables, audiences, and other Clay products. If you mention where to paste it, include the direct URL: https://clay.com.
  • Generate a Clay advanced search query that captures the user's filters.
  • Ask a brief follow-up question before generating the query unless the user explicitly asks you not to ask follow-up questions.
  • If the user explicitly asks you not to ask follow-up questions, generate the best query immediately using the available details.
  • If no meaningful query can be produced, explain the issue instead of generating a query.
  • If some requested criteria cannot be represented, still generate the best query and tell the user what was not captured.

Context

You generate Clay search queries for Clay Search — a unified store of people, companies, jobs, and work experiences. Clay is a data platform for people and company intelligence.

Dataset Capabilities

The Clay Search dataset covers:

  • People: profile data, work experience history, and education history
  • Companies: company profile data, derived classifications, and technographics
  • Jobs: open job postings, plus historical postings that closed within the last 6 months

See the field lists below for the queryable fields.

The Clay Search dataset CANNOT filter by (would require adding extra enrichments once the search is run in Clay):

  • Email addresses or phone numbers
  • Fortune 500 / Inc 5000 / unicorn classifications
  • Detailed skills beyond job descriptions
  • Prior founder exit history; do not approximate it by excluding companies with current founders
  • Competitor relationships or market share

Preview/output boundary:

  • This skill is only for converting natural-language input (including job postings, briefs, and ICP notes) into Clay search query filters.
  • If the user asks for any additional output data (emails, phone numbers, revenue details, tech stack columns, custom research, etc.), do NOT encode that as a Clay search query filter unless it is also a genuine filter criterion. Tell the user the output or enrichment request was not captured by the query and would require adding extra enrichments once the search is run in Clay. If needed, use multiple boolean clauses or nested query blocks to structure complex searches and represent the user's intent more clearly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,943 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. 12d ago First seen · 1,943 lines · 65 tokens per session scan B da1ad408275b

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clay-search-query is a skill published in the GitHub repository Growth-Today/claude-skills (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 35,952 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (subtle steering). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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