marklogic-performance

A guide for diagnosing slow or resource-heavy MarkLogic systems. MarkLogic is a database designed for document, search, graph, and analytics workloads.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate slow searches, Optic or SPARQL queries, timeouts, high memory use, and ingestion or merge problems, including how to read relevant diagnostics.
Why use it?
It helps identify whether delays come from indexes, document filtering, caches, queries, memory use, ingestion, or background merges.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/tternquist/marklogic-mcp/marklogic-performance
Any agent
npx skills add tternquist/marklogic-mcp --skill marklogic-performance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tternquist/marklogic-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,728 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00121 $0.01728
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00864
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00346
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00173

Measured 2d ago against content hash ac104a0fb011, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

marklogic-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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/marklogic-performance/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MarkLogic Performance

Architecture in one paragraph

E-nodes (Evaluator) parse requests, execute XQuery/SJS, and do filtering, snippeting, and all SPARQL joins. D-nodes (Data Manager) store data and indexes, resolve indexes, read from disk, and run background merges. A combined node does both. Around 16+ nodes, separate E and D for analytics workloads.

The two-step search process — the usual culprit

  1. Index resolution (D-nodes) → candidate fragment IDs from indexes.
  2. Filtering (E-nodes) → load each candidate document and verify the full match.

cts:search runs filtered by default. When a query is fully backed by range and word indexes, add the "unfiltered" option and step 2 disappears.

Diagnostics:

  • ml_profile_queryfilterMisses > 0 means step 2 is doing real work.
  • cts:contains(result, query) returns false for a false positive — a quick way to measure the false-positive rate directly.

Reading cache stats

Cache Holds A miss means
List cache index term lists (D-node) disk read during index resolution
Compressed tree cache document bodies (D-node) disk read during filtering
Expanded tree cache uncompressed doc trees (E-node) document expansion work
Triple cache triple data for SPARQL normal on first query

Always compare a cold run against a warm run. Many misses on the first query are expected; the same misses on repeat runs indicate a structural bottleneck, not startup.

When a range index is mandatory

  • cts:range-query, cts:element-range-query
  • ORDER BY in a FLWOR — on the ORDER BY field (last XPath step)
  • ml_values_query, ml_facets_query — range index or element word index
  • Optic ORDER BY — on the sort column; without one, all documents load to sort

Missing range index + filtered search is the worst case: a full document scan. Run ml_indexes_list before writing any range-dependent query.

Optic rules

ml_explain_optic shows the plan. Read the node types:

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 137 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A ac104a0fb011

Subscribe to this mod's changes

marklogic-performance is a skill published in the GitHub repository tternquist/marklogic-mcp (3 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 1,728 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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