ester

ester is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from taivop/marketplace. It costs 84 tokens per session (1,375 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search tool for ESTER, Estonia’s shared library catalogue. It finds books, shows availability, and identifies library branches where they can be collected.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find books by keyword or ISBN, check whether copies are available, and locate a copy at a specific library.
Why use it?
It removes the need to search separate Estonian library websites and check branches one by one.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ester plugin — 1 skill shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/taivop/marketplace/ester
Any agent
npx skills add taivop/marketplace --skill ester
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/taivop/marketplace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ester, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ester

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,375 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00084 $0.01375
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00687
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00275
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00137

Measured 5d ago against content hash 60c42ba039e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ester 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (parse_record.py, parse_search.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Search the Estonian unified library catalog (ESTER) to find books and check their availability at specific branches. No public API — uses curl + HTML parsing.
skills/ester/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Search the Estonian unified library catalog (ESTER) to find books and check their availability at specific branches. No public API — uses curl + HTML parsing.

Parser scripts are in this skill directory (relative to SKILL.md).

Workflow

1. Search for books

curl -s "https://www.ester.ee/search~S1*est/X?searchtype=X&searcharg=QUERY&searchscope=SCOPE&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBMIT=OTSI" \
  | python3 SKILL_DIR/parse_search.py

Replace QUERY with URL-encoded search terms (ä=%C3%A4, ö=%C3%B6, ü=%C3%BC, õ=%C3%B5, spaces=+).

Search types (replace X in both URL path and searchtype=):

Code Field
X Keyword (all fields) — default
i ISBN/ISSN

Use keyword (X) for title and author queries too — it handles them well. Do not use searchtype=t (title) or searchtype=a (author): ESTER returns a browse-heading index page for those, not a results list, and the parser will report 0 results even when matches exist.

searchscope values:

Scope Library
1 All libraries (default)
7 Eesti Rahvusraamatukogu (National Library)
8 Tallinna Raamatukogud / TlnRK (all Tallinn public library branches)
15 TLÜ Akadeemiline Raamatukogu
55 Tartu Linnaraamatukogu
58 Tartu Ülikooli raamatukogud

Output: JSON with total count and results array of {id, title}. If an ISBN search redirects directly to a record page, output includes "direct_record": true.

Pagination: 50 results per page. Add &startnum=51 for page 2.

2. Get holdings for a book

Step 1 — Fetch the record page and check for truncation:

curl -s "https://www.ester.ee/record=b{RECORD_ID}~S1*est" \
  | python3 SKILL_DIR/parse_record.py

Step 2 — If output contains "truncated": true, fetch the full holdings using the full_holdings_url from the output:

curl -s "FULL_HOLDINGS_URL" \
  | python3 SKILL_DIR/parse_record.py

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 5d ago First seen · 121 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 60c42ba039e3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ester is a skill published in the GitHub repository taivop/marketplace (17 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 1,375 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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