fast-queries

fast-queries is a skill for Claude Code from metraton/gaia. It costs 20 tokens per session (246 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quick, read-only procedure for checking system health or current state before a deeper investigation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to diagnose an issue, validate a specific state, or decide whether a full investigation is needed.
Why use it?
It gets an initial answer from the smallest relevant authoritative query instead of running a broad diagnostic script. This helps identify what needs closer inspection.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the gaia plugin — 38 skills, 9 agents, 11 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to diagnose an issue, validate a specific state, or decide whether a full investigation is needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/metraton/gaia/fast-queries
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 metraton/gaia --skill fast-queries
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/metraton/gaia

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gaia, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 9 agents, 11 hooks.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 246 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 $0.00020 $0.00246
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00123
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00025

Measured 9d ago against content hash da9668afcaf5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fast-queries 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 9d 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.

skills/fast-queries/SKILL.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Fast Queries

Start with supplied evidence, not a fixed diagnostic script.

  1. Read the injected dispatch kernel (# Your Contract: goal, project, your can_read menu). Project context is NOT preloaded.
  2. Pull what the goal needs from the persistent substrate, narrowly scoped. The read vocabulary -- which verb opens which coordinate, what each returns, and the workspace rule -- is in agent-protocol/read-map.md.
  3. Run the smallest authoritative read-only CLI query for the surfaced domain. Use native output/filter flags and one command per call.
  4. Record the query, result, and uncertainty in the contract checkpoint.
  5. Deep-dive only where the evidence identifies a gap or inconsistency.

Do not invoke helpers from .claude/; that tree is an installed/protected surface, not Gaia source. Do not treat a broad health command's exit code as proof of a specific desired state. If investigation forecasts mutation, switch to investigation and collect predictable exact T3 commands before requesting consent.

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. 9d ago First seen · 25 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A da9668afcaf5

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fast-queries is a skill published in the GitHub repository metraton/gaia (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 246 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.