nba-data

nba-data is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from machina-sports/sports-skills. It costs 170 tokens per session (2,182 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A lookup skill for NBA information from ESPN, the NBA's live data service, and NBA Stats. It covers games, teams, players, seasons, and historical records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to retrieve scores, standings, schedules, rosters, game summaries, play-by-play, injuries, futures, depth charts, leaders, news, advanced ratings, shot locations, career splits, and history back to 1946.
Why use it?
It brings common basketball data and deeper statistical information into one queryable source. This avoids manually checking separate sports websites and data services.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to retrieve scores, standings, schedules, rosters, game summaries, play-by-play, injuries, futures, depth charts, leaders, news, advanced ratings, shot locations, career splits, and history back to 1946.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/machina-sports/sports-skills/nba-data
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 machina-sports/sports-skills --skill nba-data
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/machina-sports/sports-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 170 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,182 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
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 9 Mar 2026
  • 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 $0.00170 $0.02182
Opus 5 $0.00085 $0.01091
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00436
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00218

Measured 7d ago against content hash 81894b3e2eeb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nba-data 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate_params.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.

skills/nba-data/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NBA Data

Before writing queries, consult references/api-reference.md for endpoints, ID conventions, and data shapes.

Setup

Before first use, check if the CLI is available:

which sports-skills || pip install sports-skills

If pip install fails with a Python version error, the package requires Python 3.10+. Find a compatible Python:

python3 --version  # check version
# If < 3.10, try: python3.12 -m pip install sports-skills
# On macOS with Homebrew: /opt/homebrew/bin/python3.12 -m pip install sports-skills

No API keys required.

Quick Start

Prefer the CLI — it avoids Python import path issues:

sports-skills nba get_scoreboard
sports-skills nba get_standings --season=2025
sports-skills nba get_teams

CRITICAL: Before Any Query

CRITICAL: Before calling any data endpoint, verify:

  • Season year is derived from the system prompt's currentDate — never hardcoded.
  • If only a team name is provided, call get_teams to resolve the team ID before using team-specific commands.

Choosing the Season

Derive the current year from the system prompt's date (e.g., currentDate: 2026-02-18 → current year is 2026).

  • If the user specifies a season, use it as-is.
  • If the user says "current", "this season", or doesn't specify: The NBA season runs October–June. If the current month is October–December, the active season year matches the current year. If January–June, the active season started the previous calendar year (use that year as the season).

Commands

Command Description
get_scoreboard Live/recent NBA scores
get_standings Standings by conference
get_teams All 30 NBA teams
get_team_roster Full roster for a team
get_team_schedule Schedule for a specific team
get_game_summary Detailed box score and scoring plays
get_leaders NBA statistical leaders
get_news NBA news articles
get_play_by_play Full play-by-play for a game
get_win_probability Win probability chart data
get_schedule Schedule for a specific date or season
get_injuries Injury reports across all teams
get_transactions Recent transactions
get_futures Futures/odds markets
get_depth_chart Depth chart for a team
get_team_stats Team statistical profile
get_player_stats Player statistical profile
find_nba_player Search the NBA Stats player registry (all eras)
get_nbastats_game_log League game log via NBA Stats — history to 1946, carries NBA game ids
get_nbastats_player_career Career stats season by season via NBA Stats
get_nbastats_team_stats League team stats via NBA Stats — advanced ratings, pace, four factors
get_nbastats_shot_chart Per-shot court coordinates via NBA Stats
get_nbastats_play_by_play Play-by-play with coordinates for past seasons via NBA Stats
get_nbastats_advanced_boxscore Advanced box score (ratings, usage) via NBA Stats
get_live_scoreboard Real-time scores. Primary cdn.nba.com, fallback ESPN
get_live_boxscore Real-time box score. Primary cdn.nba.com, fallback ESPN
get_live_playbyplay Real-time play-by-play, most recent plays first
get_player_live_stats Real-time stats for one player in today's games

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 7d ago Changed · +4 lines 81894b3e2eeb
  2. 13d ago First seen · 186 lines · 170 tokens per session scan A 787feee5273e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nba-data is a skill published in the GitHub repository machina-sports/sports-skills (218 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 170 tokens to every session and 2,182 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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