qlint-snippet

qlint-snippet is a skill for Claude Code from KxSystems/kx-skills. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,260 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A quick checker for q and qSQL code, languages used with the KX database and analytics platform. It sends one code snippet to KX's qlint tool and prints the unprocessed lint results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check a pasted or newly generated q code snippet before sharing or running it.
Why use it?
It provides fast feedback on likely syntax or style problems without setting up a full project check. It requires access to KX's qlint file and the q interpreter.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the q-knowledge plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to check a pasted or newly generated q code snippet before sharing or running it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kxsystems/kx-skills/qlint-snippet
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 KxSystems/kx-skills --skill qlint-snippet
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KxSystems/kx-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install q-knowledge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,260 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. 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 $0.00092 $0.01260
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00630
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00126

Measured 11d ago against content hash 64c0be028c71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qlint-snippet 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/run.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/q-knowledge/skills/qlint-snippet/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

qlint-snippet

Run KX qlint on a single q/qSQL code snippet via the scripts/run.sh script bundled with this skill (sibling scripts/ directory next to this SKILL.md). Useful for:

  • ad-hoc syntax checks on a code block pasted into the chat
  • Claude auto-validating q code it just generated before presenting it to the user

Prerequisites

QLINT_DIR must point to the directory containing KX's qlint.q_ — there is no default; the wrapper exits with code 2 and a clear stderr message if it is unset or the file is missing. q is expected on PATH; override with the Q env var if not. If you don't have KX Developer installed, see this plugin's README for the recommended setup.

If QLINT_DIR is unset or qlint.q_ is missing (exit 2), ASK THE USER for the correct path. Do not run find / or other filesystem-wide searches to locate it unless the user explicitly requests — they are slow and the user already knows where it lives. A narrow check in obvious places (e.g. ~/.kx, the plugin's own directory) is fine as a one-shot, but anything broader should be a question.

Gather parameters

Parameter Default Description
CODE required The q snippet to lint. Take it from the user's message (fenced block, inline quote, or explicit myCode variable). Strip any markdown fences before passing.

Execute

Invoke the scripts/run.sh script bundled with this skill (under the scripts/ directory sibling to this SKILL.md). Pass the snippet via argument or stdin. Stdin (heredoc) is strongly preferred for multi-line code — see the gotcha below.

# Stdin form (preferred for multi-line — quoted heredoc disables all expansion)
scripts/run.sh <<'EOF'
<the snippet here, possibly multi-line>
EOF

# Argument form (one-liner, single-line code)
scripts/run.sh '<the snippet>'

Use the absolute path to scripts/run.sh (resolved from the skill's own directory) so it works regardless of the caller's current working directory.

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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. 11d ago First seen · 82 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 64c0be028c71

Subscribe to this mod's changes

qlint-snippet is a skill published in the GitHub repository KxSystems/kx-skills (17 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,260 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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