neo4j-migration-skill

neo4j-migration-skill is a skill for Claude Code from neo4j-contrib/neo4j-skills. It costs 175 tokens per session (4,668 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A migration aid for Neo4j, a graph database, that updates older database-driver code and Cypher queries. Cypher is the query language used to read and change Neo4j data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when moving drivers from Neo4j 4.x or 5.x to 6.x, updating queries to Cypher 25, or checking Python, JavaScript, Java, .NET, and Go code for migration changes.
Why use it?
It helps find deprecated or removed interfaces and syntax changes before or after upgrading Neo4j, reducing manual code searches and upgrade errors.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

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

Good fit Use it when moving drivers from Neo4j 4.x or 5.x to 6.x, updating queries to Cypher 25, or checking Python, JavaScript, Java, .NET, and Go code for migration changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/neo4j-contrib/neo4j-skills/neo4j-migration-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-migration-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 175 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,668 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 351
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00175 $0.04668
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.02334
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00934
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00467

Measured 13d ago against content hash b9ea035b8b0a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

neo4j-migration-skill scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -X POST https://<host>/db/<database>/query/v2 \
neo4j-migration-skill/SKILL.md · 407 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 407 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to Use

  • Upgrading driver dependency from 4.x or 5.x to 6.x
  • Migrating Cypher queries to Cypher 25 syntax
  • Fixing deprecated API warnings after a driver or Neo4j version bump
  • Auditing a codebase for removed/deprecated Neo4j APIs before upgrading

When NOT to Use

  • Writing new Cypher queriesneo4j-cypher-skill
  • DB admin (backup, restore, import, cypher-shell) → neo4j-cli-tools-skill
  • Starting freshneo4j-getting-started-skill
  • GDS algorithm migration — not covered here; consult GDS release notes

Entry Criteria

Before starting, ask:

  1. Target Neo4j version — needed to select Cypher dialect and driver version
  2. Languages in use — scan package.json, requirements.txt, pom.xml, *.csproj, go.mod
  3. Current driver versions — read from dependency files; do NOT guess

If target is >= 2025.06: ask whether Cypher 5 or Cypher 25 dialect will be used (both supported; Cypher 25 is the new default).


Step 1 — Scan Codebase

# Find Cypher strings (queries embedded in source)
grep -rn "MATCH\|MERGE\|CREATE\|CALL\|RETURN" --include="*.py" --include="*.js" \
  --include="*.ts" --include="*.java" --include="*.cs" --include="*.go" \
  --include="*.cypher" --include="*.cql" . | grep -v ".git"

# Find dependency files
find . -name "requirements*.txt" -o -name "package.json" -o -name "pom.xml" \
  -o -name "*.csproj" -o -name "go.mod" | grep -v ".git" | grep -v node_modules

Collect findings before modifying anything. List all deprecated patterns found.


Step 2 — Cypher Migration (4.x / 5.x → Cypher 25)

Apply to every Cypher string, .cypher file, OGM/SDN @Query annotation, and template literal.

Complete Substitution Table

Old syntax Cypher 25 replacement Notes
[:REL*1..5] (()-[:REL]->()){1,5} QPE quantifier group
[:REL*] (()-[:REL]->()){1,} Unbounded QPE
[:REL*0..5] (()-[:REL]->()){0,5} Zero-hop allowed
shortestPath((a)-[*]->(b)) SHORTEST 1 (a)(()-[]->()){1,}(b) QPE shortest path
allShortestPaths((a)-[*]->(b)) ALL SHORTEST (a)(()-[]->()){1,}(b) QPE all-shortest
id(n) elementId(n) Returns string, not int
CALL { WITH x ... } CALL (x) { ... } Explicit import syntax
PERIODIC COMMIT CALL (...) { ... } IN TRANSACTIONS OF 1000 ROWS Batched writes
-- comment // comment SQL comment invalid
SET n = r (structural val) SET n = properties(r) Extract map first
MERGE (a {x:1})-[:T]->(b {x:a.x}) Rewrite — cross-entity MERGE refs disallowed Split into MATCH+MERGE
CREATE INDEX ... OPTIONS { indexProvider: ... } Remove indexProvider from OPTIONS Provider selection removed
db.create.setVectorProperty(...) Use native VECTOR property type Procedure removed
dbms.upgrade() / dbms.upgradeStatus() Use cypher-shell :sysinfo Procedures removed
USE composite.'1' USE `composite.1` Backtick entire qualified name
RETURN 1 as my$Identifier RETURN 1 as `my$Identifier` $ removed from unescaped ids

Read the full file on GitHub · 407 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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 · 407 lines · 175 tokens per session scan A b9ea035b8b0a

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neo4j-migration-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository neo4j-contrib/neo4j-skills (109 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 175 tokens to every session and 4,668 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (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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