ping

ping is a skill for Claude Code from thenativeweb/claude-plugins. It costs 34 tokens per session (208 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A connectivity check for EventSourcingDB, a database that records changes as events. It asks whether the server is reachable and running.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check an EventSourcingDB connection or confirm that a local instance is running.
Why use it?
It quickly shows whether the database endpoint is available before you try other operations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the esdb plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to check an EventSourcingDB connection or confirm that a local instance is running.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add thenativeweb/claude-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install esdb

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install esdb, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 208 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 $0.00034 $0.00208
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00083
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00021

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ce5c20a033c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ping 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 1mo 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.

curl -s -i "${ESDB_URL:-http://localhost:3000}/api/v1/ping"
plugins/esdb/skills/ping/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Ping

Check if an EventSourcingDB instance is reachable.

Shared Instructions

First read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/common.md. It explains how to determine the base URL, how to handle NDJSON responses, and which conventions apply. Follow it throughout this skill.

Request

No authentication is required for this endpoint.

curl -s -i "${ESDB_URL:-http://localhost:3000}/api/v1/ping"

Response

Check that the response contains HTTP status 200 OK and the Server header starts with EventSourcingDB/.

The response body is JSON in CloudEvents format and contains:

{"data":{"message":"My God, it's full of stars."}}
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. 1mo ago First seen · 32 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A ce5c20a033c5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ping is a skill published in the GitHub repository thenativeweb/claude-plugins (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 208 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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