backend-bulk-import

backend-bulk-import is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from j4flmao/agent-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (5,300 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for importing large CSV or Excel files into an application. It covers reading files, checking rows, processing them in batches, and handling failures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build file uploads, row validation, progress updates, duplicate handling, background imports, error reports, audit trails, and rollback when an import fails.
Why use it?
It prevents incomplete or duplicate imports and makes failures visible and recoverable. It is for batch imports, not live streaming data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to build file uploads, row validation, progress updates, duplicate handling, background imports, error reports, audit trails, and rollback when an import fails.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/j4flmao/agent-skills/bulk-import
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 j4flmao/agent-skills --skill bulk-import
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/j4flmao/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,300 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00055 $0.05300
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.02650
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.01060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00530

Measured 9d ago against content hash dbee2f8a952d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-bulk-import scanned grade A 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 9d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

await fetch(job.webhookUrl, {
skills/backend/bulk-import/SKILL.md · 626 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 626 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bulk Import Skill

Purpose

Design robust bulk import systems that handle large CSV/Excel files with validation, progress tracking, error recovery, and audit trails.

Architecture Decision Trees

Import Mode Selection

Criterion Insert Upsert Replace
Duplicate handling Fails on conflict Updates existing Truncate all first
Performance Fastest Moderate (check per row) Fast (truncate + insert)
Idempotent No Yes (by dedup field) No (destructive)
Risk level Low Low High (data loss)
Audit trail All inserts Updates logged Lost on truncate
Rollback complexity Simple (transaction) Moderate Complex (needs backup)
Use case New data ingestion Sync with external system Full reimport/replace

Decision: Upsert for production syncs. Insert for immutable audit data. Replace only with pre-import backup.

Parsing Strategy

Criterion Streaming (CSV) Full load (Excel) Hybrid (chunked)
Memory O(1) rows in memory Full file in memory O(batch size)
Max file size Unlimited ~100MB practical ~500MB
Row validation Per-batch All before processing Per-batch
Error collection Per-batch Full before process Per-batch
Progress tracking Yes (real-time) No (must parse first) Yes (per chunk)
Random access No Yes No

Decision: Streaming for CSV. Chunked for Excel > 10MB. Full load for Excel < 10MB.

Deduplication Strategy

Approach Precision Performance Implementation
DB unique constraint Exact Fast (index) Schema definition
Pre-check with SELECT Exact Slow on large tables Query existing values
Hash-based (MD5 row hash) Approximate Fast Hash + compare
External dedup (Redis set) High Very fast SET + EXISTS check

Decision: DB unique constraint for exact dedup. Redis Bloom filter for high-volume approximate dedup.

Read the full file on GitHub · 626 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 9d ago First seen · 626 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A dbee2f8a952d

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backend-bulk-import is a skill published in the GitHub repository j4flmao/agent-skills (22 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 5,300 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.