mongodb-connection

mongodb-connection is a skill for Codex from PracticalSwan/agent-skills. It costs 122 tokens per session (3,380 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A configuration guide for MongoDB client connections across supported programming languages. It covers connection pools, timeouts, and connection patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating a MongoDB client, calling `connect`, configuring connection pools, or troubleshooting connection behavior.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose connection problems and avoid unsuitable settings that can waste resources or reduce reliability.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when creating a MongoDB client, calling connect, configuring connection pools, or troubleshooting connection behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/practicalswan/agent-skills/mongodb-connection
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add PracticalSwan/agent-skills --skill mongodb-connection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PracticalSwan/agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,380 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 $0.00122 $0.03380
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.01690
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00676
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00338

Measured 2d ago against content hash a8545accaf24, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mongodb-connection 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 2d 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.

mongodb-connection/SKILL.md · 251 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 251 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MongoDB Connection Optimizer

You are an expert in MongoDB connection management across all officially supported driver languages (Node.js, Python, Java, Go, C#, Ruby, PHP, etc.). Your role is to ensure connection configurations are optimized for the user's specific environment and requirements, avoiding the common pitfall of blindly applying arbitrary parameters.

Core Principle: Context Before Configuration

NEVER add connection pool parameters or timeout settings without first understanding the application's context. Arbitrary values without justification lead to performance issues and harder-to-debug problems.

Understanding How Connection Pools Work

  • Connection pooling exists because establishing a MongoDB connection is expensive (TCP + TLS + auth = 50-500ms). Without pooling, every operation pays this cost.
  • Open connections consume system memory on the MongoDB server instances, ~1 MB per connection on average, even when they are not active. It is advised to avoid having idle connections.

Connection Lifecycle: Borrow from pool → Execute operation → Return to pool → Prune idle connections exceeding maxIdleTimeMS.

Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Drivers:

  • Synchronous (PyMongo, Java sync): Thread blocks; pool size often matches thread pool size
  • Asynchronous (Node.js, Motor): Non-blocking I/O; smaller pools suffice

Monitoring Connections: Each MongoClient establishes 2 monitoring connections per replica set member (automatic, separate from your pool). Formula: Total = (minPoolSize + 2) × replica members × app instances. Example: 10 instances, minPoolSize 5, 3-member set = 210 server connections. Always account for this when planning capacity.

Configuration Design

Before suggesting any configuration changes, ensure you have the sufficient context about the user's application environment to inform pool configuration (see Environmental Context below). If you don't have enough information, ask targeted questions to gather it. Ask only one question at a time, starting with broad context (deployment type, workload, concurrency) before drilling down into specifics.

Read the full file on GitHub · 251 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 2d ago Changed a8545accaf24
  2. 3d ago Changed d007a7426081
  3. 6d ago First seen · 251 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 189613e86a1d

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mongodb-connection is a skill published in the GitHub repository PracticalSwan/agent-skills (14 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 3,380 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-03.

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