promql

promql is a skill for Claude Code from xobotyi/cc-foundry. It costs 74 tokens per session (5,256 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to PromQL, the query language used to select and calculate data from Prometheus monitoring time series. It covers selectors, functions, operators, aggregations, matching, alerts, and query performance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build dashboard queries, alert rules, recording rules, exploratory searches, and efficient aggregations over Prometheus metrics.
Why use it?
It helps you write monitoring queries that return the intended data without unexpected types, label mismatches, or excessive series counts. It also supports reviewing and optimizing existing queries.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the grafana plugin — 7 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/xobotyi/cc-foundry/promql
Any agent
npx skills add xobotyi/cc-foundry --skill promql
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xobotyi/cc-foundry

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install grafana, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 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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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,256 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 5.1 $0.00074 $0.05256
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.02628
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.01051
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00526

Measured 6d ago against content hash a839f8a6229d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

promql 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 6d 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.

plugins/grafana/skills/promql/SKILL.md · 481 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 481 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PromQL

PromQL is a nested functional language for selecting and aggregating Prometheus time series. Every query is an expression tree: selectors at the leaves, functions and operators at the nodes, a single root value (scalar, instant vector, range vector, or string) at the top. Type discipline makes queries correct; cardinality awareness makes them fast.

Authoritative reference for writing PromQL queries — dashboards, alerts, recording rules, exploration. The companion backend/prometheus skill covers instrumentation (metric types, naming, labels, exporters). When both apply, use backend/prometheus for emitting metrics and this skill for querying them.

References

  • Selectors and data types — [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/selectors-and-types.md] Expression types, instant and range vector selectors, label matchers (=, !=, =~, !~), time durations, offset and @ modifiers, staleness, instant vs range queries, string and float literals
  • Operators — [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/operators.md] Arithmetic, comparison, logical/set, vector matching (on, ignoring, group_left, group_right), aggregation operators, by/without, fill modifiers, operator precedence
  • Functions — [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/functions.md] Full function catalog: counter family, gauge functions, classic and native histograms, *_over_time, existence checks, label manipulation, math, time, type conversion, sorting, trigonometric
  • Native histograms — [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/native-histograms.md] Native vs classic detection, histogram_quantile across both forms, native-only functions (histogram_avg, histogram_count, histogram_sum, histogram_fraction, histogram_stddev, histogram_stdvar), aggregation without le, NHCB semantics, trim operators, migration patterns, function compatibility matrix, gotchas, annotations
  • Subqueries — [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/subqueries.md] Syntax, resolution and alignment, nested subqueries, when to use subqueries vs recording rules, pitfalls
  • Optimization and pitfalls — [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/optimization.md] Cardinality awareness, common pitfalls (rate-of-gauge, aggregate-then-rate, averaging ratios, averaging summary quantiles), counter resets, staleness, rate window sizing, native histograms, diagnostics
  • Recording and alerting rules — [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/recording-alerting-rules.md] Rule file structure, level:metric:operations naming, ratio aggregation patterns, alert syntax, for/keep_firing_for, templating, alerting best practices, anti-patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 481 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 6d ago First seen · 481 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A a839f8a6229d

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promql is a skill published in the GitHub repository xobotyi/cc-foundry (20 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 5,256 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 2026-08-30.

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