surrealdb-cli

surrealdb-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from surrealdb/agent-skills. It costs 129 tokens per session (1,608 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for running and managing SurrealDB, a database that can store and query application data. It can start the database, open a SQL session, move data in and out, check readiness, repair storage, and manage SurrealML models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting SurrealDB, running queries through its SQL interface, importing or exporting databases, checking whether a server is ready, upgrading or repairing it, and managing SurrealML models.
Why use it?
It puts common database operation tasks into scripts or terminal commands. This helps with local development, backups, migrations, readiness checks, upgrades, and repairs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Starting SurrealDB, running queries through its SQL interface, importing or exporting databases, checking whether a server is ready, upgrading or repairing it, and managing SurrealML models.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/surrealdb/agent-skills/surrealdb-cli
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 surrealdb/agent-skills --skill surrealdb-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/surrealdb/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 129 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,608 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00129 $0.01608
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00804
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00322
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00161

Measured 10d ago against content hash dc7463e0d248, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

surrealdb-cli scanned grade C 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.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

| curl (macOS / Linux) | `curl -sSf https://install.surrealdb.com \| sh` |

Makes network callslowCapability

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

| curl (macOS / Linux) | `curl -sSf https://install.surrealdb.com \| sh` |
skills/surrealdb-cli/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SurrealDB CLI

A skill for driving the surreal command-line binary — SurrealDB's all-in-one tool for running a server, querying it, and moving data in and out.

This skill covers operating the surreal binary itself. To write the SurrealQL that you run with it, use the surrealql skill; for declarative schema migrations and type generation, use the surrealkit skill.

When to use this skill

Reference these guidelines when:

  • Starting a SurrealDB server, locally or in a container (surreal start)
  • Opening the SQL shell or piping queries from a file (surreal sql)
  • Importing or exporting a database for backups, seeding, or migration (surreal import / surreal export)
  • Gating scripts or CI on server availability (surreal is-ready)
  • Upgrading the binary or repairing on-disk storage after an upgrade (surreal upgrade / surreal fix)
  • Importing or exporting SurrealML models (surreal ml)

Installation

Method Command
curl (macOS / Linux) curl -sSf https://install.surrealdb.com | sh
Windows (PowerShell) iwr https://windows.surrealdb.com -useb | iex
Homebrew brew install surrealdb/tap/surreal
Docker docker run --rm --pull always -p 8000:8000 surrealdb/surrealdb:latest start

Verify with surreal version. Pin a specific image tag (not latest) for production. See the install docs for the current set of methods.

Command map

Command Purpose Reference
surreal start [PATH] Run the database server with a chosen storage backend start.md
surreal sql Interactive REPL or piped, non-interactive querying sql.md
surreal import <FILE> Load a SurrealQL script into a database import-export.md
surreal export [FILE] Dump a database to SurrealQL (file or stdout) import-export.md
surreal is-ready Exit 0 when the server is accepting connections (alias isready) maintenance.md
surreal version Print local tool and remote server versions maintenance.md
surreal upgrade Replace the binary with a newer release maintenance.md
surreal fix [PATH] Migrate on-disk storage to the current format maintenance.md
surreal ml <sub> Import / export SurrealML models maintenance.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 · 99 lines · 129 tokens per session scan C dc7463e0d248

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surrealdb-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository surrealdb/agent-skills (25 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 1,608 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, 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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