rai-setup

rai-setup is a skill for Claude Code from RelationalAI/rai-agent-skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (2,882 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup guide for RelationalAI, a system for running data models and queries, using its Python package and command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install RelationalAI, connect it to Snowflake, run it locally, configure raiconfig.yaml, or diagnose setup and connection problems.
Why use it?
It explains first-time installation, connections to Snowflake, local development with DuckDB, authentication, and configuration troubleshooting.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the rai plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to install RelationalAI, connect it to Snowflake, run it locally, configure raiconfig.yaml, or diagnose setup and connection problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/relationalai/rai-agent-skills/rai-setup
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 RelationalAI/rai-agent-skills --skill rai-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RelationalAI/rai-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,882 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 $0.00078 $0.02882
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01441
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00576
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00288

Measured 12d ago against content hash f610f3746399, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rai-setup 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.

plugins/rai/skills/rai-setup/SKILL.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

RelationalAI Setup & Configuration

Covers the relationalai Python package (aka PyRel), which enables PyRel programs and ships the rai CLI.

Summary

What: End-to-end RelationalAI setup and configuration — installing the Python package, connecting to Snowflake, validating the environment, running a starter program, and tuning all configuration surfaces (auth, model, reasoners, engines, execution).

When to use:

  • First-time setup: install relationalai, connect to Snowflake, run a starter program
  • Running RAI locally on DuckDB for development, prototyping, or demos (no Snowflake)
  • Creating or editing raiconfig.yaml
  • Choosing or troubleshooting an authentication method
  • Tuning reasoner engines, sizes, solver settings
  • Troubleshooting connection or config errors

When NOT to use:

  • Writing PyRel models or queries — see rai-pyrel
  • Designing ontology structure — see rai-ontology
  • Solver execution and diagnostics — see rai-prescriptive-results
  • Discovering what questions an existing model can answer — see rai-discovery

Overview: For a returning user tweaking config, start from Quick Reference below and the Reference files trigger table — load only the reference matching the task. For a first-time user, drop into First-Time Setup Workflow and walk them through install → connect → validate → starter → next steps. Always finish a connection change by running rai connect — never hand the user a config and assume it works.


Prerequisites

Requires Python 3.10+ and relationalai>=1.20.1.

Some guidance carries inline Requires relationalai ... notes flagging capabilities that need a version above this baseline; when following those blocks, install at least the version they name.

The RelationalAI Native App for Snowflake must be installed in your account by an administrator — request access here; see the Native App docs. (Not required for local DuckDB development — see Local Development with DuckDB below.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 12d ago First seen · 201 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A f610f3746399

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rai-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository RelationalAI/rai-agent-skills (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 2,882 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 2026-08-31.

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