vector-backend-operations

vector-backend-operations is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Knuckles-Team/vector-mcp. It costs 113 tokens per session (1,074 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A connection guide for choosing and configuring a vector database, which stores data so an agent can find items by meaning or similarity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select or migrate between ChromaDB, PostgreSQL with pgvector, Qdrant, Couchbase, and MongoDB, and to prepare their connection settings.
Why use it?
It helps prevent failed searches caused by choosing the wrong database engine or supplying incorrect connection details.

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/knuckles-team/vector-mcp/vector-backend-operations
Any agent
npx skills add Knuckles-Team/vector-mcp --skill vector-backend-operations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Knuckles-Team/vector-mcp

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 1,074 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 $0.00113 $0.01074
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00537
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00107

Measured 4d ago against content hash b3158e94bec1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vector-backend-operations 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.

vector_mcp/skills/vector-backend-operations/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vector Backend Operations

Backend selection and connection wiring for the vector-mcp MCP server. Both the vector_collection_management and vector_search tools take the same db_type + connection parameters — this skill is the reference for getting those right per engine.

When to use

  • Choose a vector backend for a workload (embedded vs. networked, dev vs. prod).
  • Assemble the correct connection parameters for a chosen db_type.
  • Migrate a corpus between backends (e.g. local chromadb → hosted qdrant).
  • Diagnose "backend unreachable / wrong params" failures before running collection or search calls.

When NOT to use

  • Creating/loading/deleting collections → vector-collection-management.
  • Semantic / lexical / hybrid retrieval → vector-hybrid-search.

Prerequisites & environment

Connect via the mcp-client skill against the vector-mcp MCP server. The relevant backend extra must be installed on the server (vector-mcp[chromadb], [postgres], [qdrant], [couchbase], [mongodb], or [all]).

Backends & connection parameters

db_type selects the engine; the other params depend on it:

db_type Typical params Notes
chromadb db_path (embedded) or host/port Zero-infra local default
postgres host, port, db_name, username, password pgvector-backed
qdrant host, port Fast ANN, fastembed extra
couchbase host, db_name, username, password
mongodb host, port, db_name, username, password Atlas Vector Search

The same params flow into vector_collection_management and vector_search, so once you know the backend shape, reuse it across every call.

Tools & actions

Backend selection is not a standalone action — it is the db_type + connection arguments shared by both tools:

Condensed tool Actions using these params
vector_collection_management create_collection, add_documents, list_collections, delete_collection
vector_search semantic_search, lexical_search, search

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 lines

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 · 96 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A b3158e94bec1

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vector-backend-operations is a skill published in the GitHub repository Knuckles-Team/vector-mcp (15 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 1,074 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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