neo4j-cli-tools-skill

neo4j-cli-tools-skill is a skill for Claude Code from neo4j-contrib/neo4j-skills. It costs 159 tokens per session (2,878 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A guide to Neo4j's command-line tools, which let you work with a Neo4j graph database from a terminal. It covers querying, schema inspection, Aura cloud management, Docker, credentials, backups, restores, imports, and memory sizing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run Cypher queries, inspect databases, manage Aura or Docker deployments, handle credentials, install agent skills, and perform database backups, restores, imports, or memory checks.
Why use it?
It helps you choose the right Neo4j command-line tool for each task instead of guessing between several similar tools.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; built for cline.

Part of the neo4j-skills plugin — 29 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to run Cypher queries, inspect databases, manage Aura or Docker deployments, handle credentials, install agent skills, and perform database backups, restores, imports, or memory checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/neo4j-contrib/neo4j-skills/neo4j-cli-tools-skill
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 neo4j-contrib/neo4j-skills --skill neo4j-cli-tools-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/neo4j-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install neo4j-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 1 command.

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Per session 159 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,878 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00159 $0.02878
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.01439
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00576
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00288

Measured 13d ago against content hash 7e550e3acf0f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

neo4j-cli-tools-skill scanned grade C with 2 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 13d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

management, agent skill catalog install; install with curl -sSfL https://neo4j.sh/install.sh | bash),

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

management, agent skill catalog install; install with curl -sSfL https://neo4j.sh/install.sh | bash),
neo4j-cli-tools-skill/SKILL.md · 262 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Neo4j CLI Tools skill

When to Use

  • Cypher queries, schema inspection, Aura, Docker, credentials, agent skills → neo4j-cli (preferred)
  • Admin tasks: backup, restore, import, memory sizing → neo4j-admin
  • Ad-hoc queries, scripting, CI/CD (Java required) → cypher-shell
  • MCP server install → neo4j-mcp

When NOT to Use

  • Writing or optimizing Cypher queriesneo4j-cypher-skill
  • Upgrading Neo4j drivers or migrating Cypher syntaxneo4j-migration-skill
  • Starting a new Neo4j project from scratchneo4j-getting-started-skill

Available CLI Tools

1. neo4j-cli

Modern unified CLI. Bolt-native Cypher, schema inspection, Aura management, local Docker, credential storage, agent skill catalog install. Single binary — no Java required.

Install:

curl -sSfL https://neo4j.sh/install.sh | bash   # recommended
brew install neo4j-labs/tap/neo4j-cli            # Homebrew
pip install neo4j-cli / pipx install neo4j-cli   # PyPI
npm i -g @neo4j-labs/cli                         # npm

Self-update: neo4j-cli update (also refreshes installed skills automatically)

Key subcommands:

Subcommand Purpose
neo4j-cli query [cypher] Run Cypher via Bolt — auto-rewrites HTTP URIs
neo4j-cli query :schema Inspect labels, rel types, indexes, constraints
neo4j-cli query :embed [text] Compute embedding vector standalone
neo4j-cli aura instance ... Provision and manage Aura instances
neo4j-cli aura agent ... Manage Aura Agents (list/get/create/invoke)
neo4j-cli docker create/start/stop/delete Manage local Neo4j Docker containers
neo4j-cli credential aura-client ... Store Aura API credentials
neo4j-cli credential dbms ... Store Neo4j connection profiles (URI + auth)
neo4j-cli credential embed ... Store embedding provider credentials
neo4j-cli skill install [skill-name] Install self-skill or any catalog skill
neo4j-cli skill list / check / remove Manage installed agent skills
neo4j-cli update Self-update binary + refresh installed skills

Read the full file on GitHub · 262 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 13d ago First seen · 262 lines · 159 tokens per session scan C 7e550e3acf0f

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neo4j-cli-tools-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository neo4j-contrib/neo4j-skills (109 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 159 tokens to every session and 2,878 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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