iodbc-dsn-manager

iodbc-dsn-manager is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenLinkSoftware/ai-agent-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (3,824 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A skill for configuring and checking ODBC Data Source Names on macOS and Linux. An ODBC DSN is a saved connection profile that applications use to reach a database.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, inspect, test, and verify DSNs through the available iODBC or unixODBC tools and supported remote interfaces.
Why use it?
It provides several ways to manage database connection profiles, including a local command line, a REST bridge, or an OpenLink web interface.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to create, inspect, test, and verify DSNs through the available iODBC or unixODBC tools and supported remote interfaces.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openlinksoftware/ai-agent-skills/iodbc-dsn-manager
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 OpenLinkSoftware/ai-agent-skills --skill iodbc-dsn-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenLinkSoftware/ai-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,824 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. 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: 7 findings, 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 Rogue Agent · line 59
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 99
    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.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 174
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 175
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 176
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 333
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 176
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00000 $0.03824
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01912
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00765
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00382

Measured 10d ago against content hash 74a01bb1941a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

iodbc-dsn-manager scanned grade B 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (server/odbc_rest_server.py, server/odbc_rest_server.ts), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/var/log

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -s http://localhost:8000/ | grep -i "openlink\|admin assistant" | head -3
iodbc-dsn-manager/SKILL.md · 339 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 339 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ODBC DSN Manager Skill

iODBC + unixODBC · macOS + Linux · www_sv · REST · Local CLI

Purpose

Manage and verify ODBC Data Source Names using the best available interface — automatically selected in this priority order:

Priority Mode When to use
1 (preferred) C — www_sv OpenLink Admin Assistant running (or startable) on port 8000
2 B — REST bridge odbc_rest_server.py running on the target machine
3 (fallback) A — Local CLI Claude Code running directly on the ODBC machine

Execution Routing

Default execution order for remote or REST interactions:

  1. Mode C (www_sv) — HTTP Admin Assistant at http://localhost:8000 (preferred when available)
  2. Mode B (REST bridge)odbc_rest_server.py REST endpoint
  3. Terminal-owned OAuth flow — when a REST endpoint requires OAuth 2.0 authentication, execute the OAuth flow from the terminal (authorization code, client credentials, or device flow), capture the Bearer token, and inject it into subsequent REST/OpenAPI calls via Authorization: Bearer {token} headers
  4. Mode A (Local CLI) — direct iodbctest/isql invocation
  5. MCP — if an MCP-enabled Virtuoso instance is available for remote DSN operations

If the user names a specific mode or protocol, follow that preference instead.


Step 0 — Mode Detection (Always Run First)

Run these checks in order and stop at the first match:

# 1. Check for www_sv (Mode C — preferred)
curl -s http://localhost:8000/ | grep -i "openlink\|admin assistant" | head -3

# 2. Check for www_sv binary (can we start it?)
ls "/Library/Application Support/openlink/bin/www_sv" 2>/dev/null

# 3. Check for local ODBC config (Mode A)
uname -s
ls /Library/ODBC/odbc.ini 2>/dev/null || ls /etc/odbc.ini 2>/dev/null
which iodbctest isql 2>/dev/null

Decision logic:

  • www_sv responds at port 8000 → Mode C
  • www_sv binary exists but not running → ask user to start it → if yes, start and use Mode C
  • Local ODBC config and binaries found → Mode A
  • Neither → ask user for REST server URL → Mode B

Read the full file on GitHub · 339 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. 10d ago First seen · 339 lines · 0 tokens per session scan B 74a01bb1941a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

iodbc-dsn-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenLinkSoftware/ai-agent-skills (38 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,824 tokens. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, 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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