kb-query

kb-query is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lacolaco/claude-plugins. It costs 220 tokens per session (418 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A lookup guide for answering questions about your own projects and the tools, versions, and services they use. It searches a local project knowledge base and cites the pages it used.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find which projects use a library, framework, version, cloud service, deployment target, or architectural pattern.
Why use it?
It avoids manually checking many repositories or source files when you need to remember or compare project details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the llm-wiki plugin — 4 skills shipped together

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/lacolaco/claude-plugins/kb-query
Any agent
npx skills add lacolaco/claude-plugins --skill kb-query
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lacolaco/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install llm-wiki, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 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.

agentmods badge for kb-query

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lacolaco/claude-plugins/kb-query.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/lacolaco/claude-plugins/kb-query)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lacolaco/claude-plugins/kb-query"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lacolaco/claude-plugins/kb-query.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 220 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 418 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 $0.00220 $0.00418
Opus 5 $0.00110 $0.00209
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00042

Measured 3d ago against content hash c43672e0d9b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kb-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 3d 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.

llm-wiki/skills/kb-query/SKILL.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

kb-query (querying the KB)

The KB lives at ~/.knowledge/ and the wiki/ layer is an OKF v0.1 bundle. Page conventions, OKF type vocabulary, and citation style are in ~/.knowledge/CLAUDE.md.

  1. Search the wiki first (~/.knowledge/wiki/index.md → relevant page) and answer from it. Do not re-read raw sources.
  2. Cite the page(s) you referenced. When relevant, the type field in a page's frontmatter (Project Wiki / Entity Wiki / Topic Wiki) hints at how the page should be read.
  3. If the wiki is missing a valuable answer (comparison, analysis, cross-cutting connection), create a new page (via kb-ingest so the OKF frontmatter is written correctly) and update the index / log (compounding).
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. 3d ago First seen · 15 lines · 220 tokens per session scan A c43672e0d9b7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kb-query is a skill published in the GitHub repository lacolaco/claude-plugins (5 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 220 tokens to every session and 418 once invoked, about $0.0011 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 2026-08-31.

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