rudder-profiles-setup

rudder-profiles-setup is a skill for Claude Code from rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (998 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for installing and configuring the RudderStack Profiles toolchain, including profiles-mcp, the Profile Builder command-line tool, and editor MCP wiring. RudderStack Profiles connects customer data from a warehouse into usable profiles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for first-time Profiles setup, installing the required tools, configuring environment files, connecting the MCP server, and checking prerequisites.
Why use it?
It checks prerequisites and guides setup so later tasks can discover warehouse metadata, create YAML configuration, and run Profile Builder commands safely.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the rudder-profiles plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for first-time Profiles setup, installing the required tools, configuring environment files, connecting the MCP server, and checking prerequisites.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills/rudder-profiles-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 rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills --skill rudder-profiles-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rudder-profiles, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 998 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00054 $0.00998
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00499
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00100

Measured 12d ago against content hash 94d231eb6d08, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rudder-profiles-setup scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

allowed-tools: "Bash(which, python3, uv, git, curl, chmod, pb *, ./setup.sh, cat, claude *), Read, Write, Edit"
plugins/rudder-profiles/skills/rudder-profiles-setup/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

RudderStack Profiles Setup

Set up the local Profiles toolchain so later skills can discover warehouse metadata, generate YAML, and run pb commands safely.

Prerequisites

Check these before anything else:

Prerequisite Check If missing
Python 3.10+ which python3 and python3 --version Install from python.org or system package manager
uv which uv Install from https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/
git which git Install from git-scm.com or system package manager

Workflow

  1. Check prerequisiteswhich python3, which uv, which git. If any are missing, explain what to install and stop.
  2. Clone profiles-mcpgit clone https://github.com/rudderlabs/profiles-mcp into a user-approved location. Skip if already cloned.
  3. Configure .env — The .env file needs RUDDERSTACK_PAT, IS_CLOUD_BASED, and USE_PB_QUERY. Do not ask the user to paste secrets into chat. Instead, instruct them to copy .env.sample to .env and fill in values, or let setup.sh handle it via its interactive env_setup.py step.
  4. Run ./setup.sh — From the profiles-mcp checkout. This script:
    • validates the OS and Python version,
    • installs uv if missing,
    • generates a start.sh wrapper,
    • runs env_setup.py (interactive — prompts for PAT via masked input),
    • installs Python dependencies in a .venv,
    • installs the pb CLI,
    • downloads RAG embeddings for doc search,
    • runs update_mcp_config.py to wire MCP into the user's editor.
  5. Configure MCP in editor — If setup.sh did not handle this, or if the user needs manual config:
    • Claude Code: claude mcp add profiles -- /path/to/profiles-mcp/.venv/bin/python /path/to/profiles-mcp/server.py
    • Cursor / VS Code: see references/mcp-config-examples.md
  6. Verifypb version succeeds AND at least one Profiles MCP tool is visible to the agent.
  7. Done — Point user to /rudder-profiles-project to create their first project.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 78 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 94d231eb6d08

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rudder-profiles-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills (18 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 998 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (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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