msgvault-query

A command-line tool for asking SQL questions about an archived history of email, chat, and meeting messages. SQL is a language for selecting, filtering, grouping, and sorting stored data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find messages by date, sender, domain, label, or thread; count messages; inspect attachments; and analyze participants and communication patterns.
Why use it?
It removes the need to understand the archive's Parquet files or DuckDB database directly. The prepared views make common message and sender analysis easier to run and export.

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/kenn-io/msgvault/claude-code
Any agent
npx skills add kenn-io/msgvault --skill claude-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kenn-io/msgvault

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,261 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 $0.00084 $0.01261
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00630
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00126

Measured 2d ago against content hash 776782d62f28, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

msgvault-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 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/claude-code/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

msgvault-query

Run SQL against the msgvault archive via msgvault query. The analytics cache is DuckDB over Parquet — queries run in milliseconds. No DuckDB binary or Parquet path knowledge required.

The analytics cache is built automatically when stale or missing.

Quick Start

# Top 10 senders, table format
msgvault query --format table "SELECT from_email, message_count FROM v_senders ORDER BY message_count DESC LIMIT 10"

# Messages from a domain in 2024, CSV output
msgvault query --format csv "SELECT subject, sent_at, from_email FROM v_messages WHERE from_domain = 'example.com' AND year = 2024 ORDER BY sent_at DESC"

# Label distribution as JSON
msgvault query "SELECT name, message_count, total_size FROM v_labels ORDER BY message_count DESC"

Available Views

See references/views.md for full column schemas.

Base views (direct Parquet data)

View Description
messages Raw message metadata partitioned by year
participants Email addresses with domain and display name
message_recipients Message-to-participant links (from/to/cc/bcc)
labels Gmail label names
message_labels Message-to-label links
attachments Attachment metadata (filename, size) per message
conversations Thread grouping
sources Synced accounts

Convenience views (pre-joined aggregates)

View Description
v_messages Messages with resolved sender (from_email, from_name, from_domain) and labels as JSON array
v_senders Per-sender aggregates: message_count, total_size, attachment stats, first/last message
v_domains Per-domain aggregates: message_count, total_size, sender_count
v_labels Per-label aggregates: message_count, total_size
v_threads Per-conversation aggregates: message_count, date range, participant_emails as JSON array

Output Formats

msgvault query "..."                    # JSON (default): {"columns":[...], "rows":[...], "row_count":N}
msgvault query --format csv "..."       # CSV with header row
msgvault query --format table "..."     # Aligned text table with row count

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 157 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 776782d62f28

Subscribe to this mod's changes

msgvault-query is a skill published in the GitHub repository kenn-io/msgvault (2,047 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 1,261 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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