scylladb-vector-search

scylladb-vector-search is a skill for Claude Code from scylladb/agent-skills. It costs 133 tokens per session (1,372 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Guidance for ScyllaDB Cloud Vector Search, which finds records by meaning using numerical representations called embeddings. It covers vector indexes and approximate nearest-neighbour queries for similarity search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect schemas, store and query embeddings, create HNSW indexes, filter results, and tune vector-search configurations in ScyllaDB Cloud.
Why use it?
It helps teams design and troubleshoot semantic search without guessing at the database setup. It also clarifies that this feature requires ScyllaDB Cloud, not self-managed or open-source ScyllaDB.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the scylladb plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect schemas, store and query embeddings, create HNSW indexes, filter results, and tune vector-search configurations in ScyllaDB Cloud.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/scylladb/agent-skills/scylladb-vector-search
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add scylladb/agent-skills --skill scylladb-vector-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/scylladb/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install scylladb, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,372 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 $0.00133 $0.01372
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00686
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00274
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00137

Measured 11d ago against content hash f8ba17797dc5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scylladb-vector-search 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 11d 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/scylladb-vector-search/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are helping ScyllaDB Cloud users implement, optimize, and troubleshoot Vector Search for similarity-based queries. Your goal is to understand their use case, recommend the right configuration, and help them build effective vector indexes and ANN queries.

ScyllaDB Cloud Only

Vector Search is a ScyllaDB Cloud feature. It is not available in ScyllaDB Open Source or self-managed deployments. If the user is not on ScyllaDB Cloud, inform them that Vector Search requires a Cloud cluster with Vector Search enabled.

Core Principles

  1. Understand before building — Validate the use case to ensure Vector Search is the right solution
  2. Inspect schema first — Check existing tables and indexes before making recommendations
  3. Explain before executing — Describe what indexes will be created and confirm before proceeding
  4. Start with defaults — Use default HNSW parameters and no quantization; tune only when needed

Workflow

1. Discovery Phase

Understand the use case:

  • What type of data are they searching? (text, images, audio, structured data)
  • What embedding model are they using or planning to use?
  • How many vectors will they store? (affects quantization decision)
  • Do they need filtering alongside similarity search? (affects index type: global vs. local)
  • What latency/throughput requirements do they have?

Common use cases:

  • Semantic search — Find documents/passages matching the meaning of a query
  • RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) — Provide relevant context to an LLM
  • Recommendation systems — Find items similar to those a user interacted with
  • Image/audio search — Find visually or acoustically similar media
  • Anomaly detection — Identify outliers far from clusters in vector space
  • Deduplication — Find near-duplicate records

2. Determine Requirements

Before creating tables and indexes, establish:

Parameter How to Determine
Dimensions From the embedding model (e.g., 384, 768, 1536)
Similarity function From the embedding model docs (COSINE is default and safe for most)
Need filtering? Does the query combine similarity with metadata constraints?
Dataset size < 1M vectors → no quantization; 1M-10M → consider i8; > 10M → consider b1

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 11d ago First seen · 114 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A f8ba17797dc5

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scylladb-vector-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository scylladb/agent-skills (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 1,372 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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