surrealql-performance

surrealql-performance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from surrealdb/agent-skills. It costs 109 tokens per session (740 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for making SurrealDB database queries faster by designing record keys, choosing indexes, and storing or computing derived values appropriately. SurrealDB is a database, and an index is an extra data structure that helps it find records without scanning everything.

In plain words
What is it for?
Improving record IDs, range lookups, standard, unique, full-text, and vector indexes, checking query plans with `EXPLAIN`, and deciding when to precompute values.
Why use it?
It helps identify why queries are slow and check whether the database is using the intended index.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Improving record IDs, range lookups, standard, unique, full-text, and vector indexes, checking query plans with EXPLAIN, and deciding when to precompute values.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 740 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 $0.00109 $0.00740
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00370
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00074

Measured 11d ago against content hash b3606581fc9d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

surrealql-performance 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/surrealql-performance/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SurrealQL Performance

Techniques for making SurrealDB queries fast: structuring record IDs and keys for data locality, choosing and verifying the right indexes, and precomputing values with computed fields and views instead of recomputing them on every read.

Target the latest stable SurrealDB release. Confirm version-sensitive syntax (record ranges, COMPUTED fields, FULLTEXT index options) against https://surrealdb.com/docs, and validate examples with surreal validate. See the surrealql skill for version detection.

When to use this skill

  • A query is slow or scans more records than expected
  • Designing record IDs to support efficient lookups and range scans
  • Choosing between standard, UNIQUE, full-text SEARCH, or vector indexes
  • Confirming whether an index is actually used (EXPLAIN)
  • Deciding whether to store a derived value vs. compute it on read

Topic map

Topic Reference
Record ID & key structuring for locality and range scans references/keys.md
Index types, composite order, verifying usage, rebuild cost references/indexing.md
Computed fields, precomputed views, event-maintained values references/computed-fields.md

Top rules

  • Design IDs for access patterns. Record IDs are stored in sorted order. Put the most selective, range-friendly component first (e.g. weather:['London', d'2025-02-13T05:00Z']) so related records sit together and range queries avoid full-table scans. See references/keys.md.
  • Prefer record ranges over WHERE on the ID. SELECT * FROM person:1..1000 uses key ordering directly; filtering with WHERE after a full scan does not.
  • Index the fields you filter, sort, or join on — but no more. Every index adds write cost. Order composite index fields from most to least selective and to match your query's filter/sort order. See references/indexing.md.
  • Verify, don't assume. Run EXPLAIN (or EXPLAIN FULL) to confirm a query uses the index you expect before concluding it is optimized.
  • Precompute expensive, read-heavy values. Use computed fields, a DEFINE TABLE ... AS SELECT view, or a DEFINE EVENT to maintain derived data rather than recomputing aggregates on every query. See references/computed-fields.md.
  • Use bound parameters. Parameterized queries are safer and let the engine reuse query plans.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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. 11d ago First seen · 55 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A b3606581fc9d

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surrealql-performance is a skill published in the GitHub repository surrealdb/agent-skills (25 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 740 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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