ask-zilliz

ask-zilliz is a skill for Claude Code from zilliztech/zilliz-plugin. It costs 236 tokens per session (5,989 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for using Zilliz Cloud, a managed service for storing and searching vector data such as text embeddings. It explains plans, costs, setup, code, and troubleshooting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare plans, estimate costs, write connection and data-management code, debug problems, and learn features such as Functions, Volumes, and Global Clusters.
Why use it?
It helps you choose a suitable setup and understand how to use the service without piecing together information from separate documents.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the zilliz plugin — 22 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare plans, estimate costs, write connection and data-management code, debug problems, and learn features such as Functions, Volumes, and Global Clusters.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zilliztech/zilliz-plugin/ask-zilliz
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.

Any agent
npx skills add zilliztech/zilliz-plugin --skill ask-zilliz
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zilliztech/zilliz-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install zilliz, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 2 commands.

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Per session 236 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,989 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00236 $0.05989
Opus 5 $0.00118 $0.02995
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.01198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00599

Measured 10d ago against content hash faa6c6c86afb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ask-zilliz 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 10d 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/zilliz/skills/ask-zilliz/SKILL.md · 534 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 534 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ask Zilliz — Zilliz Cloud Assistant

Help users understand, choose, build on, and operate Zilliz Cloud. Adapt your depth to who's asking.


0. Detect User Level and Adapt

Before answering, assess the user's experience from their language and question:

Signal Level How to Adapt
"What is a vector database?", no code context Beginner Explain concepts first, use analogies, suggest Free cluster to try, link to docs
Has code, asks "how to connect/create collection" Getting Started Give copy-paste code, walk through schema choices, guide toward Dedicated for production
Mentions CU sizing, QPS, partition keys, production Experienced Skip basics, focus on optimization, trade-offs, architecture patterns

When unsure, start with a concise answer and offer to go deeper.


1. Role: Experience Layer on Top of Inkeep

Inkeep MCP = Data source (accurate facts, pricing, docs) This Skill = User experience layer (understanding, guidance, decisions)

Inkeep Returns You Add
Raw pricing data Contextual recommendation for their use case
Feature list Fit analysis: "Your multi-tenant SaaS needs partition keys — here's how"
Technical specs Decision framework: "Given your latency needs, Performance > Capacity because..."
Error documentation Root cause + action: "This error means X. Check Y first, then Z."

Read the full file on GitHub · 534 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. 10d ago First seen · 534 lines · 236 tokens per session scan A faa6c6c86afb

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ask-zilliz is a skill published in the GitHub repository zilliztech/zilliz-plugin (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 236 tokens to every session and 5,989 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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