What is shotgrid-entity-search?

A set of instructions for searching ShotGrid, a production-tracking system used to manage media projects and their assets, tasks, and versions. It chooses search tools and filters so requests return only the needed records and fields.

Use it to find ShotGrid entities, related records, schema fields, or full-text matches with focused queries.

Broad searches can load an entire project into the assistant's context and waste time. Narrow searches also reduce the chance of using the wrong filter or entity type.

shotgrid-entity-search — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by loonghao

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 loonghao/shotgrid-mcp-server --skill shotgrid-entity-search

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/loonghao/shotgrid-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 800 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00035	$0.00800
Opus 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00320
Sonnet 5	$0.00007	$0.00160
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00080

Measured 2d ago against content hash a98b8441524d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-25, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shotgrid-entity-search 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.

src/shotgrid_mcp_server/data/skills/shotgrid-entity-search/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Searching ShotGrid entities

Read references/filters.md before writing any non-trivial filter — it lists every operator the server accepts and the time-filter shapes that are easy to get wrong.

Pick the tool first

Goal	Tool
Several entities of one type, with filters and field selection	`search_entities`
One type plus fields from linked entities (shots with their sequence names)	`search_entities_with_related`
Exactly one entity, by ID or a unique field	`entity_find_one`
Complex boolean logic, grouping, or aggregate summaries	`sg_search_advanced`
Full-text search across entity types	`sg_text_search`
Which fields exist on a type?	`schema_get` or `sg_schema_field_read`
Which entity types exist?	`sg_schema_entity_read`

search_entities_with_related and sg_search_advanced cost one round trip where several search_entities calls would cost many. Use them when the answer needs linked data; stay with search_entities for a flat list.

Procedure

Confirm the entity type. ShotGrid type names are capitalised and often studio-specific (Shot, Asset, Task, Version, PublishedFile, CustomEntity01). If the type is uncertain, call sg_schema_entity_read once rather than guessing.
Confirm the fields. Call schema_get for the entity type when you are about to filter or return a field you have not seen. A misspelled field name fails the whole query.
Always bound the query. Add a project filter, a status filter, or a date filter before requesting results. An unbounded search_entities on a live production can return tens of thousands of rows.
Request only the fields you need in fields. Entity records are wide; the default field set is a convenience, not a budget.
Filter in ShotGrid, not in the model. Push every condition into filters. Never fetch a broad result set and narrow it by reading.

Example

Find in-progress shots of a project, newest update first:

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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.

references/filters.md 2.4 KB

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.

2d ago First seen · 75 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A a98b8441524d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

shotgrid-entity-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository loonghao/shotgrid-mcp-server (65 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 800 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-23.

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