sql-query

sql-query is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JansenAnalytics/claudex. It costs 27 tokens per session (408 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing and running advanced SQL queries for reports and data analysis. It covers joins, common table expressions, window functions, aggregations, and pivots.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build analytical queries, transform data, suggest indexes, format SQL, and benchmark query performance.
Why use it?
It helps turn raw database data into reports and makes complex queries easier to format, optimize, and measure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is echo "SELECT a,b FROM t WHERE x=1 GROUP BY a ORDER BY b" | bash scripts/format-query.sh -.

Good fit Use it to build analytical queries, transform data, suggest indexes, format SQL, and benchmark query performance.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JansenAnalytics/claudex
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jansenanalytics/claudex/sql-query

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 408 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 $0.00027 $0.00408
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00204
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00082
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00041

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8e3cf395ea66, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sql-query 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 4d 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/sql-query/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

sql-query

Build and execute complex SQL queries for analytics: joins, window functions, CTEs, aggregations, pivots.

When to Use

  • Writing analytical queries with window functions, CTEs, or complex joins
  • Building reports from databases
  • Optimizing slow queries
  • Transforming data with SQL
  • Benchmarking query performance

Scripts

Script Purpose Usage
format-query.sh Format and validate SQL queries bash scripts/format-query.sh [file.sql|-]
suggest-indexes.sh Analyze queries and suggest indexes bash scripts/suggest-indexes.sh <sqlite|postgres> <db> <query>
benchmark.sh Benchmark query execution time bash scripts/benchmark.sh <sqlite|postgres> <db> <query|file.sql> [runs]

References

File Contents
window-functions.md Window function patterns and examples
cte-patterns.md Common Table Expression patterns
optimization-guide.md Query optimization techniques
analytical-templates.md Ready-to-use analytical query templates

Examples

Format a query

echo "SELECT a,b FROM t WHERE x=1 GROUP BY a ORDER BY b" | bash scripts/format-query.sh -

Benchmark a query

bash scripts/benchmark.sh sqlite mydb.sqlite3 "SELECT count(*) FROM orders" 10
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. 4d ago First seen · 51 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 8e3cf395ea66

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sql-query is a skill published in the GitHub repository JansenAnalytics/claudex (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 408 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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