optimizing-sql-queries

optimizing-sql-queries is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Unknown-333/awesome-data-engineering-skills. It costs 84 tokens per session (850 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for making analytical SQL queries run faster and use fewer computing resources. Analytical SQL retrieves and compares large amounts of data for reporting or analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read query plans, reduce data scanned, improve joins, and choose partitioning, clustering, or indexes in supported SQL systems.
Why use it?
It helps find why a query is slow, expensive, scans too much data, times out, or runs out of temporary storage.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the data-engineering-skills plugin — 37 skills 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/unknown-333/awesome-data-engineering-skills/optimizing-sql-queries
Any agent
npx skills add Unknown-333/awesome-data-engineering-skills --skill optimizing-sql-queries
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Unknown-333/awesome-data-engineering-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install data-engineering-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills.

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README.md
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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 850 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00084 $0.00850
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00425
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00085

Measured 3d ago against content hash ef1a7d3b959d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

optimizing-sql-queries 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 3d 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/optimizing-sql-queries/SKILL.md · 79 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 79 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A ef1a7d3b959d

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optimizing-sql-queries is a skill published in the GitHub repository Unknown-333/awesome-data-engineering-skills (15 stars, last pushed 4d ago), with no licence file. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 850 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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