marklogic-query-authoring

marklogic-query-authoring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tternquist/marklogic-mcp. It costs 148 tokens per session (2,532 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing MarkLogic queries, where MarkLogic is a database for searching documents, structured data, graphs, and vectors. It maps goals such as full-text search, filters, facets, joins, graph traversal, and similarity search to the appropriate query method.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write document searches, exact filters, value counts, facets, Optic queries for grouped or joined data, SPARQL graph queries, vector similarity searches, query-by-example searches, and geospatial searches.
Why use it?
It reduces empty or incorrect results caused by guessing field names, query types, or required indexes. It first checks the database schema, indexes, and collections so queries match the data that actually exists.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 148 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,532 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 $0.00148 $0.02532
Opus 5 $0.00074 $0.01266
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00506
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00253

Measured 4d ago against content hash 38f4f63b9d37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

marklogic-query-authoring 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 4d 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-query-authoring/SKILL.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MarkLogic Query Authoring

Pick the tool from the goal

Goal Tool Index prerequisite
Free-text across whole documents ml_search with q universal index (on by default)
Exact value on a JSON property ml_search with structured_query none — value index is on by default
Tokenised text in one field ml_search word-query none
Distinct values / counts / buckets ml_values_query range index on the field
Facet counts alongside results ml_facets_query range index per facet
GROUP BY, joins, aggregates ml_optic_query TDE template in Schemas
Entity relationships, graph traversal ml_sparql_query triple index on
Semantic / similarity search ml_vector_search vector index (ML 12+)
Query-by-example from a sample doc ml_search_qbe none
Geospatial ml_geospatial_search geospatial index

Before composing anything non-trivial, run ml_schema_discover (structure), ml_indexes_list (what is actually indexed), and ml_collections_list (what exists). Guessing at field names is the most common cause of empty results.

The most important rule: you usually don't need a range index

cts.parse (via ml_parse_query) requires a range index on every tagged binding — tags become cts.<kind>Reference objects. On a non-indexed field it fails with XDMP-ELEMRIDXNOTFOUND. That is a limitation of cts.parse, not of MarkLogic.

For exact-value filtering on a non-indexed JSON property, skip cts.parse and pass a structured query straight to ml_search:

{"query":{"value-query":{"json-property":"incidentType","text":["Hurricane"]}}}

For tokenised free text in one field:

{"query":{"word-query":{"json-property":"description","text":["hurricane"]}}}

For free text across the whole document, just use ml_search q="hurricane".

Reach for ml_parse_query only when you specifically need string-grammar parsing — an LLM-written X AND Y NOT Z expression with range comparisons on indexed fields — or when round-tripping a string query through MarkLogic's parser to canonicalise it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 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. 4d ago First seen · 188 lines · 148 tokens per session scan A 38f4f63b9d37

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marklogic-query-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository tternquist/marklogic-mcp (3 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 148 tokens to every session and 2,532 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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