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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00072 | $0.02479 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00036 | $0.01239 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00496 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00248 |
Grade A, and why
netbox-integration-best-practices 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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
NetBox Integration Best Practices Skill
This skill provides best practices guidance for building integrations and automations with NetBox REST and GraphQL APIs.
Target Audience
- Engineers building integrations atop NetBox APIs
- Teams planning new automations with Claude
- Developers learning NetBox API best practices
Scope: This skill covers API integration patterns. It does NOT cover plugin development, custom scripts, or NetBox administration.
NetBox Version Requirements
| Feature | Version Required |
|---|---|
| REST API | All versions |
| GraphQL API | 2.9+ |
| v2 Tokens | 4.5+ (use these!) |
| v1 Token Deprecation | 4.7+ (migrate before this) |
Primary target: NetBox 4.4+ with 4.5+ for v2 token features.
When to Apply This Skill
Apply these practices when:
- Building new NetBox API integrations
- Reviewing existing integration code
- Troubleshooting performance issues
- Planning automation architecture
- Writing scripts that interact with NetBox
Priority Levels
| Level | Description | Action |
|---|---|---|
| CRITICAL | Security vulnerabilities, data loss, severe performance | Must fix immediately |
| HIGH | Significant performance/reliability impact | Should fix soon |
| MEDIUM | Notable improvements, best practices | Plan to address |
| LOW | Minor improvements, optional | Consider when convenient |
Quick Reference
Authentication
- Use v2 tokens on NetBox 4.5+:
Bearer nbt_<key>.<token> - Migrate from v1 before NetBox 4.7 (deprecation planned)
REST API
- Always paginate:
?limit=100(max 1000) - Use PATCH for partial updates, not PUT
- Use ?brief=True for list operations
- Exclude config_context:
?exclude=config_context(major performance impact) - Avoid ?q= search filter at scale; use specific filters
- Bulk operations use list endpoints with JSON arrays (not separate endpoints)
GraphQL
- Use the query optimizer: netbox-graphql-query-optimizer
- Always paginate every list query
- Paginate at every level of nesting
- Beware offset pagination at scale: Deep offsets are slow; use ID range filtering in 4.5.x, cursor-based in 4.6.0+ (#21110)
- Request only needed fields
- Keep depth ≤3, never exceed 5
What ships with it
44 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.
- references/netbox-integration-guidelines.md 52 KB
- references/rules/_sections.md 6.5 KB
- references/rules/_template.md 3.4 KB
- references/rules/auth-provisioning-endpoint.md 1.7 KB
- references/rules/auth-use-v2-tokens.md 3.4 KB
- references/rules/data-custom-fields.md 1.4 KB
- references/rules/data-dependency-order.md 7.4 KB
- references/rules/data-ipam-hierarchy.md 1.8 KB
- references/rules/data-natural-keys.md 1.3 KB
- references/rules/data-site-hierarchy.md 2.6 KB
- references/rules/data-tags-usage.md 1.5 KB
- references/rules/data-tenant-isolation.md 1.4 KB
- references/rules/graphql-always-paginate.md 6.6 KB
- references/rules/graphql-avoid-nested-filters.md 3.4 KB
- references/rules/graphql-calibrate-optimizer.md 5.0 KB
- references/rules/graphql-complexity-budgets.md 1.6 KB
- references/rules/graphql-filter-by-id.md 3.0 KB
- references/rules/graphql-max-depth.md 4.8 KB
- references/rules/graphql-pagination-at-each-level.md 5.1 KB
- references/rules/graphql-prefer-filters.md 4.2 KB
- references/rules/graphql-select-only-needed.md 4.7 KB
- references/rules/graphql-use-query-optimizer.md 4.7 KB
- references/rules/graphql-vs-rest-decision.md 5.0 KB
- references/rules/integ-branch-api-workflow.md 8.9 KB
- references/rules/integ-branch-async-operations.md 10 KB
- references/rules/integ-branch-context-header.md 7.9 KB
- references/rules/integ-change-tracking.md 1.2 KB
- references/rules/integ-diode-ingestion.md 9.6 KB
- references/rules/integ-pynetbox-client.md 1.4 KB
- references/rules/integ-webhook-configuration.md 1.7 KB
- references/rules/perf-brief-mode-lists.md 959 B
- references/rules/perf-exclude-config-context.md 1.1 KB
- references/rules/rest-avoid-search-filter-at-scale.md 4.6 KB
- references/rules/rest-brief-mode.md 4.1 KB
- references/rules/rest-custom-field-filters.md 1.2 KB
- references/rules/rest-exclude-config-context.md 4.9 KB
- references/rules/rest-field-selection.md 4.6 KB
- references/rules/rest-filtering-expressions.md 5.5 KB
- references/rules/rest-list-endpoint-bulk-ops.md 7.3 KB
- references/rules/rest-nested-serializers.md 1.3 KB
- references/rules/rest-options-discovery.md 1.0 KB
- references/rules/rest-ordering-results.md 1.1 KB
- references/rules/rest-pagination-required.md 4.6 KB
- references/rules/rest-patch-vs-put.md 3.9 KB
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 185 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A e57cfb099d05
netbox-integration-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository netboxlabs/netbox-best-practices (29 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 2,479 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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