kb-query

kb-query is a skill for Claude Code from olegvg/olegvg-skills. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,016 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for answering questions from a .kb knowledge base, a folder of organised reference documents. It navigates indexes first, then opens the most relevant summaries and references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when answering questions from an existing .kb directory and when you need to trace information through its indexes and summaries.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of searching the wrong documents or missing the structure of the knowledge base. It also stops when the expected .kb folder is absent.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the olegvg-skills plugin — 7 skills, 6 commands, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it when answering questions from an existing .kb directory and when you need to trace information through its indexes and summaries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/olegvg/olegvg-skills/kb-query
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 olegvg/olegvg-skills --skill kb-query
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/olegvg/olegvg-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install olegvg-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 6 commands, 1 plugin.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,016 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 $0.00064 $0.01016
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00508
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00203
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00102

Measured 12d ago against content hash ad6f8e2e9a58, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kb-query 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 12d 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/kb-query/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

kb-query — Answer via Progressive Disclosure

When to use

User asks a question about a corpus that has a .kb/ directory. The knowledge base exists — you're reading it, not building it.

If .kb/ does not exist, suggest /kb-build and stop.

Input

  • Question — natural language, from the user.

Workflow (strict order)

1. Read _root.md first

Open .kb/indexes/_root.md. Always. No exceptions on first access to the KB.

This is the indexes-first rule. It's cheap (≤300 tokens) and orients you correctly in one hop. Skipping it to "save time" costs more time when you pick the wrong summaries.

2. Pick 1–3 area indexes

Based on _root.md, identify which areas are relevant to the question. Read those area indexes (.kb/indexes/<area>.md).

Typical count: 1 for focused questions, 2–3 for questions that cross domains. More than 3 means either the question is too broad or the areas are over-segmented.

3. Descend to summaries

From the area indexes, pick the specific leaf summaries to read. Read them.

4. Follow warm references freely

Once inside a summary, you may follow direct references to other summaries without returning to the index level. This relaxation is intentional — see docs/navigation-rules.md. The indexes earn their keep on cold start; warm references are cheap.

4a. Surface decisions for the current summary

After reading a summary, also check whether any decision records reference it. Decisions live in .kb/decisions/<YYYY-MM-slug>.md; each record's ## Affected areas block names the summaries it shapes. The lookup is one grep:

grep -l "<path-to-current-summary>" .kb/decisions/

Read whichever records the grep returns. Do not look for a ## Key decisions section inside the summary — the linkage lives in the decision record, not in the summary. Decisions are immutable history; summaries describe the present.

For questions of the form "how does X work now, and why was it built that way?" — read the summary for X, then the decisions returned by the grep above. Both halves of the answer live along one navigation path.

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 12d ago First seen · 85 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A ad6f8e2e9a58

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kb-query is a skill published in the GitHub repository olegvg/olegvg-skills (7 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,016 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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