qgis-core-data-providers

qgis-core-data-providers is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Impertio-Studio/QGIS-Claude-Skill-Package. It costs 111 tokens per session (2,827 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to QGIS data providers—the components that let QGIS read vector, raster, mesh, and point-cloud data from files, databases, or web services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when loading files, PostGIS or SpatiaLite data, web map services, point clouds, meshes, or temporary layers in QGIS.
Why use it?
It helps you build the correct layer source string for each format, avoiding errors where a layer fails to load or appears empty.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it when loading files, PostGIS or SpatiaLite data, web map services, point clouds, meshes, or temporary layers in QGIS.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/impertio-studio/qgis-claude-skill-package/qgis-core-data-providers
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 Impertio-Studio/QGIS-Claude-Skill-Package --skill qgis-core-data-providers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Impertio-Studio/QGIS-Claude-Skill-Package

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,827 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 $0.00111 $0.02827
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01413
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00565
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00283

Measured 12d ago against content hash 562d4c06378a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qgis-core-data-providers 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 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.

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/source/qgis-core/qgis-core-data-providers/SKILL.md · 333 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 333 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

qgis-core-data-providers

Quick Reference

Provider System Overview

QGIS uses a plugin-based provider architecture. Providers are registered in QgsProviderRegistry and loaded during QgsApplication.initQgis(). Each provider handles one or more data formats.

Provider Key Type Formats
"ogr" Vector Shapefile, GeoPackage, GeoJSON, FlatGeoBuf, KML, DXF, GPX
"postgres" Vector PostGIS tables and views
"spatialite" Vector SpatiaLite databases
"memory" Vector In-memory temporary layers
"delimitedtext" Vector CSV, TSV, custom-delimited text files
"WFS" Vector OGC Web Feature Service
"virtual" Vector SQL queries across loaded layers
"gdal" Raster GeoTIFF, JPEG2000, COG, VRT, GeoPackage raster
"wms" Raster WMS, WMTS, XYZ tiles
"wcs" Raster OGC Web Coverage Service
"postgresraster" Raster PostGIS raster tables
"pdal" Point Cloud LAS, LAZ (QGIS 3.18+)
"copc" Point Cloud Cloud Optimized Point Cloud (QGIS 3.26+)
"ept" Point Cloud Entwine Point Tile (QGIS 3.18+)
"mdal" Mesh NetCDF, GRIB, XMDF, DAT
"vectortile" Vector Tile Mapbox Vector Tiles (MVT)
"cesiumtiles" Tiled Scene Cesium 3D Tiles (QGIS 3.34+)

Layer Construction Pattern

# Vector layer
vlayer = QgsVectorLayer(data_source_uri, display_name, provider_key)

# Raster layer
rlayer = QgsRasterLayer(data_source_uri, display_name, provider_key)

# Point cloud layer (QGIS 3.18+)
pclayer = QgsPointCloudLayer(data_source_uri, display_name, provider_key)

# Mesh layer
mlayer = QgsMeshLayer(data_source_uri, display_name, provider_key)

# Vector tile layer
vtlayer = QgsVectorTileLayer(data_source_uri, display_name)

ALWAYS check validity immediately after creation:

layer = QgsVectorLayer(uri, name, provider)
if not layer.isValid():
    raise RuntimeError(f"Failed to load layer '{name}' from: {uri}")

Read the full file on GitHub · 333 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 12d ago First seen · 333 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A 562d4c06378a

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qgis-core-data-providers is a skill published in the GitHub repository Impertio-Studio/QGIS-Claude-Skill-Package (33 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 2,827 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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