metapath-expressions

metapath-expressions is a skill for Claude Code from metaschema-framework/claude-plugins. It costs 40 tokens per session (3,014 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

An expression language for navigating and querying Metaschema data, based on XPath 3.1. It supports paths, operators, functions, and rules for checking data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write Metapath expressions for constraints, queries, and traversals through Metaschema documents.
Why use it?
It removes the need to learn how to write Metaschema constraints and queries from scattered references. It gives you the syntax for finding related data and expressing validation rules.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: $skill-name invocation.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is . <= ../end-date.

Part of the metaschema plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write Metapath expressions for constraints, queries, and traversals through Metaschema documents.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/metaschema-framework/claude-plugins
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/metaschema-framework/claude-plugins/metapath-expressions

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install metaschema, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,014 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00040 $0.03014
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01507
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00603
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00301

Measured 8d ago against content hash 705c261baf9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

metapath-expressions 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 8d 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.

plugins/metaschema/skills/metapath-expressions/SKILL.md · 403 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 403 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Metapath Expression Language

Metapath is based on XPath 3.1, adapted for Metaschema's data model. This skill covers the expression language used in Metaschema constraints and queries.

Path Expressions

Basic Navigation

Expression Description
. Current node (context item)
.. Parent node
./child Child named "child"
./child/grandchild Nested navigation
.//descendant Any descendant named "descendant"
@flag Flag (attribute) named "flag"
//root From document root

Axis Navigation

Axis Description Example
child:: Direct children (default) child::name = ./name
parent:: Parent node parent::*
ancestor:: All ancestors ancestor::catalog
ancestor-or-self:: Ancestors plus current ancestor-or-self::*
descendant:: All descendants descendant::item
descendant-or-self:: Descendants plus current descendant-or-self::* = .//
self:: Current node self::node()
preceding-sibling:: Preceding siblings preceding-sibling::item
following-sibling:: Following siblings following-sibling::item

Wildcards

Pattern Description
* Any element
@* Any flag (attribute)
node() Any node

Predicates

Filter nodes using conditions in brackets:

./item[@status = 'active']
./user[position() = 1]
./entry[starts-with(@id, 'X-')]
./control[exists(./part)]
./param[@id][not(@class = 'hidden')]

Position Predicates

./item[1]              # First item
./item[last()]         # Last item
./item[position() > 1] # All but first
./item[position() mod 2 = 0] # Even positions

Operators

Comparison Operators

Operator Description Note
=, != General comparison Compares sequences
eq, ne Value equality Single values only
<, >, <=, >= General comparison Compares sequences
lt, gt, le, ge Value comparison Single values only

Read the full file on GitHub · 403 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. 8d ago First seen · 403 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 705c261baf9b

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metapath-expressions is a skill published in the GitHub repository metaschema-framework/claude-plugins (10 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 3,014 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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