turso

A SQLite-compatible database system for applications that need local storage, optional cloud synchronization, or encrypted data. SQLite is a small database that stores structured data in a file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for embedded app databases, offline-first software, encrypted storage, edge or IoT applications, and shared state between AI agents.
Why use it?
It gives an application a database that can run locally, sync with a cloud service, or work in a hybrid offline-and-online setup. It also covers encryption and patterns for storing agent state.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/itechmeat/llm-code/turso
Any agent
npx skills add itechmeat/llm-code --skill turso
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itechmeat/llm-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,308 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00060 $0.01308
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00654
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00131

Measured 2d ago against content hash a8f2b40cd20f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

turso 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 2d 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/turso/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Turso Database

SQLite-compatible embedded database for modern applications, AI agents, and edge computing.

Quick Navigation

Topic Reference
Installation installation.md
Encryption encryption.md
Authorization auth.md
Sync sync.md
Agent DBs agents.md

When to Use

  • Embedded SQLite database with cloud sync
  • AI agent state management and multi-agent coordination
  • Offline-first applications
  • Encrypted databases (AEGIS, AES-GCM)
  • Edge computing and IoT devices

Core Concepts

libSQL

Turso is built on libSQL, an open-source fork of SQLite with:

  • Native encryption (AEGIS-256, AES-GCM)
  • Async I/O (Linux io_uring)
  • Cloud sync capabilities

Deployment Options

  1. Embedded — runs locally in your app
  2. Turso Cloud — managed platform with branching, backups
  3. Hybrid — local with cloud sync (push/pull)

Common Patterns

Encrypted Database

openssl rand -hex 32  # Generate key
tursodb --experimental-encryption "file:db.db?cipher=aegis256&hexkey=YOUR_KEY"

Cloud Sync

import { connect } from "@tursodatabase/sync";

const db = await connect({
  path: "./local.db",
  url: "turso://...", // also accepts "libsql://..." — both schemes work
  authToken: process.env.TURSO_AUTH_TOKEN,
});

await db.push(); // local → cloud
await db.pull(); // cloud → local

Agent Database

import { connect } from "@tursodatabase/database";

// Local-first
const db = await connect("agent.db");

// Or with sync
const db = await connect({
  path: "agent.db",
  url: "https://db.turso.io",
  authToken: "...",
  sync: "full",
});

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 2d ago First seen · 120 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A a8f2b40cd20f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

turso is a skill published in the GitHub repository itechmeat/llm-code (22 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,308 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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