qgis-syntax-pyqgis-api

qgis-syntax-pyqgis-api is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Impertio-Studio/QGIS-Claude-Skill-Package. It costs 113 tokens per session (2,875 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to using PyQGIS, the Python interface for QGIS, to inspect and change geographic layers and their features. It covers scripts, plugins, processing jobs, geometry, background tasks, and map data access.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write QGIS Python scripts, create or edit features, run geometry operations, build processing algorithms, index spatial data, and perform work in the background.
Why use it?
It helps avoid invalid editing sessions, unsafe background work, and slow ways of reading many geographic features.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to write QGIS Python scripts, create or edit features, run geometry operations, build processing algorithms, index spatial data, and perform work in the background.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/impertio-studio/qgis-claude-skill-package/qgis-syntax-pyqgis-api
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-syntax-pyqgis-api
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 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,875 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 $0.00113 $0.02875
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01437
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00575
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00287

Measured 12d ago against content hash bac6039f260f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qgis-syntax-pyqgis-api 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-syntax/qgis-syntax-pyqgis-api/SKILL.md · 362 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 362 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

qgis-syntax-pyqgis-api

Quick Reference

Scripting Contexts

Context iface Available Initialization Required Use Case
Python Console Yes None Interactive exploration, quick tests
Standalone Script No QgsApplication([], False) + initQgis() CLI tools, CI pipelines, batch processing
Processing Script No (feedback instead) None (framework handles it) Geoprocessing algorithms
Plugin Yes (via classFactory) None GUI extensions, toolbar tools

Core Classes

Class Purpose Key Methods
QgsFeature Single feature (geometry + attributes) id(), geometry(), attributes(), __getitem__()
QgsFeatureRequest Filter/optimize feature queries setFilterExpression(), setFilterRect(), setLimit(), setFlags()
QgsGeometry Geometry wrapper with GEOS operations fromPointXY(), buffer(), intersection(), contains()
QgsSpatialIndex R-tree spatial index addFeature(), nearestNeighbor(), intersects()
QgsTask Background processing run(), finished(), setProgress(), isCanceled()
QgsMessageLog Log panel messages logMessage(msg, tag, level)
QgsMessageBar Map canvas notifications pushMessage(title, text, level, duration)

QgsPoint vs QgsPointXY

Class Dimensions Use With
QgsPointXY 2D (X, Y) only fromPointXY(), fromPolylineXY(), fromPolygonXY()
QgsPoint 2D + Z + M fromPolyline(), 3D operations

ALWAYS use QgsPointXY for 2D operations. Use QgsPoint ONLY when Z or M values are required.


Critical Warnings

NEVER modify features outside an edit session. Changes are silently lost or corrupt the data source. ALWAYS use with edit(layer): or manually call startEditing() / commitChanges().

NEVER access iface, QgsProject.instance(), or any Qt widget from QgsTask.run(). These are main-thread objects. Accessing them from a background thread crashes QGIS.

Read the full file on GitHub · 362 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 · 362 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A bac6039f260f

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qgis-syntax-pyqgis-api is a skill published in the GitHub repository Impertio-Studio/QGIS-Claude-Skill-Package (33 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 2,875 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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