Agent skill

Clickhouse Io

by affaan-m in affaan-m/ECC

ClickHouse database patterns, query optimization, analytics, and data engineering best practices for high-performance analytical workloads.

MITAuto-check passedDatabases

Install Clickhouse Io

skills CLI
$ npx skills add affaan-m/ECC --skill clickhouse-io -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install affaan-m/ECC clickhouse-io --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/affaan-m/ECC.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/clickhouse-io .claude/skills/clickhouse-io && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

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Facts

Skill name
clickhouse-io
GitHub stars
277k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~2.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
269 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
683
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

ClickHouse database patterns, query optimization, analytics, and data engineering best practices for high-performance analytical workloads.

  • Works in 5 steps: Partitioning Strategy → Ordering Key → Data Types → …
  • Writing ClickHouse schemas
  • SKILL.md covers When to Activate, Overview, Table Design Patterns and Query Optimization Patterns, plus 6 more sections
  • Needs CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD

What it does

Clickhouse Io is an agent skill from affaan-m/ECC. ClickHouse database patterns, query optimization, analytics, and data engineering best practices for high-performance analytical workloads. Use when writing ClickHouse schemas or queries, or when an analytical query is too slow.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Databases, covering Data warehousing, Query optimization and Data pipelines and ETL. It works with ClickHouse. The repository describes itself as: The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Writing ClickHouse schemas
  • An analytical query is too slow

Example prompts

  • “/clickhouse-io”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Partitioning Strategy
  2. Ordering Key
  3. Data Types
  4. Avoid
  5. Monitoring

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 2d515e4. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are sql and typescript).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Clickhouse Io loads about 2.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 61 tokens; SKILL.md has 269 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~61
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.7k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from affaan-m/ECC at commit 2d515e4, republished under its MIT licence (© affaan-m). 269 words, ~2,683 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/clickhouse-io/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
clickhouse-io
description
ClickHouse database patterns, query optimization, analytics, and data engineering best practices for high-performance analytical workloads. Use when writing ClickHouse schemas or queries, or when an analytical query is too slow.
metadata.origin
ECC

ClickHouse Analytics Patterns

ClickHouse-specific patterns for high-performance analytics and data engineering.

When to Activate

  • Designing ClickHouse table schemas (MergeTree engine selection)
  • Writing analytical queries (aggregations, window functions, joins)
  • Optimizing query performance (partition pruning, projections, materialized views)
  • Ingesting large volumes of data (batch inserts, Kafka integration)
  • Migrating from PostgreSQL/MySQL to ClickHouse for analytics
  • Implementing real-time dashboards or time-series analytics

Overview

ClickHouse is a column-oriented database management system (DBMS) for online analytical processing (OLAP). It's optimized for fast analytical queries on large datasets.

Key Features:

  • Column-oriented storage
  • Data compression
  • Parallel query execution
  • Distributed queries
  • Real-time analytics

Table Design Patterns

MergeTree Engine (Most Common)
sql
CREATE TABLE markets_analytics (
    date Date,
    market_id String,
    market_name String,
    volume UInt64,
    trades UInt32,
    unique_traders UInt32,
    avg_trade_size Float64,
    created_at DateTime
) ENGINE = MergeTree()
PARTITION BY toYYYYMM(date)
ORDER BY (date, market_id)
SETTINGS index_granularity = 8192;
ReplacingMergeTree (Deduplication)
sql
-- For data that may have duplicates (e.g., from multiple sources)
CREATE TABLE user_events (
    event_id String,
    user_id String,
    event_type String,
    timestamp DateTime,
    properties String
) ENGINE = ReplacingMergeTree()
PARTITION BY toYYYYMM(timestamp)
ORDER BY (user_id, event_id, timestamp)
PRIMARY KEY (user_id, event_id);
AggregatingMergeTree (Pre-aggregation)
sql
-- For maintaining aggregated metrics
CREATE TABLE market_stats_hourly (
    hour DateTime,
    market_id String,
    total_volume AggregateFunction(sum, UInt64),
    total_trades AggregateFunction(count, UInt32),
    unique_users AggregateFunction(uniq, String)
) ENGINE = AggregatingMergeTree()
PARTITION BY toYYYYMM(hour)
ORDER BY (hour, market_id);

-- Query aggregated data
SELECT
    hour,
    market_id,
    sumMerge(total_volume) AS volume,
    countMerge(total_trades) AS trades,
    uniqMerge(unique_users) AS users
FROM market_stats_hourly
WHERE hour >= toStartOfHour(now() - INTERVAL 24 HOUR)
GROUP BY hour, market_id
ORDER BY hour DESC;

Query Optimization Patterns

Efficient Filtering
sql
-- PASS: GOOD: Use indexed columns first
SELECT *
FROM markets_analytics
WHERE date >= '2025-01-01'
  AND market_id = 'market-123'
  AND volume > 1000
ORDER BY date DESC
LIMIT 100;

-- FAIL: BAD: Filter on non-indexed columns first
SELECT *
FROM markets_analytics
WHERE volume > 1000
  AND market_name LIKE '%election%'
  AND date >= '2025-01-01';
Aggregations
sql
-- PASS: GOOD: Use ClickHouse-specific aggregation functions
SELECT
    toStartOfDay(created_at) AS day,
    market_id,
    sum(volume) AS total_volume,
    count() AS total_trades,
    uniq(trader_id) AS unique_traders,
    avg(trade_size) AS avg_size
FROM trades
WHERE created_at >= today() - INTERVAL 7 DAY
GROUP BY day, market_id
ORDER BY day DESC, total_volume DESC;

-- PASS: Use quantile for percentiles (more efficient than percentile)
SELECT
    quantile(0.50)(trade_size) AS median,
    quantile(0.95)(trade_size) AS p95,
    quantile(0.99)(trade_size) AS p99
FROM trades
WHERE created_at >= now() - INTERVAL 1 HOUR;
Window Functions
sql
-- Calculate running totals
SELECT
    date,
    market_id,
    volume,
    sum(volume) OVER (
        PARTITION BY market_id
        ORDER BY date
        ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW
    ) AS cumulative_volume
FROM markets_analytics
WHERE date >= today() - INTERVAL 30 DAY
ORDER BY market_id, date;

Data Insertion Patterns

typescript
import { createClient } from '@clickhouse/client'

const clickhouse = createClient({
  url: process.env.CLICKHOUSE_URL ?? 'http://localhost:8123',
  username: process.env.CLICKHOUSE_USER,
  password: process.env.CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD
})

// PASS: Batch insert (efficient)
async function bulkInsertTrades(trades: Trade[]) {
  await clickhouse.insert({
    table: 'trades',
    values: trades.map(trade => ({
      id: trade.id,
      market_id: trade.market_id,
      user_id: trade.user_id,
      amount: trade.amount,
      timestamp: trade.timestamp.toISOString()
    })),
    format: 'JSONEachRow'
  })
}

// FAIL: Individual inserts (slow)
async function insertTrade(trade: Trade) {
  // Don't do this in a loop!
  await clickhouse.insert({
    table: 'trades',
    values: [{
      id: trade.id,
      market_id: trade.market_id,
      user_id: trade.user_id,
      amount: trade.amount,
      timestamp: trade.timestamp.toISOString()
    }],
    format: 'JSONEachRow'
  })
}
Streaming Insert
typescript
// For continuous data ingestion
import { Readable } from 'node:stream'

async function streamInserts(dataSource: AsyncIterable<Record<string, unknown>>) {
  await clickhouse.insert({
    table: 'trades',
    values: Readable.from(dataSource, { objectMode: true }),
    format: 'JSONEachRow'
  })
}

Materialized Views

Real-time Aggregations
sql
-- Create materialized view for hourly stats
CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW market_stats_hourly_mv
TO market_stats_hourly
AS SELECT
    toStartOfHour(timestamp) AS hour,
    market_id,
    sumState(amount) AS total_volume,
    countState() AS total_trades,
    uniqState(user_id) AS unique_users
FROM trades
GROUP BY hour, market_id;

-- Query the materialized view
SELECT
    hour,
    market_id,
    sumMerge(total_volume) AS volume,
    countMerge(total_trades) AS trades,
    uniqMerge(unique_users) AS users
FROM market_stats_hourly
WHERE hour >= now() - INTERVAL 24 HOUR
GROUP BY hour, market_id;

Performance Monitoring

Query Performance
sql
-- Check slow queries
SELECT
    query_id,
    user,
    query,
    query_duration_ms,
    read_rows,
    read_bytes,
    memory_usage
FROM system.query_log
WHERE type = 'QueryFinish'
  AND query_duration_ms > 1000
  AND event_time >= now() - INTERVAL 1 HOUR
ORDER BY query_duration_ms DESC
LIMIT 10;
Table Statistics
sql
-- Check table sizes
SELECT
    database,
    table,
    formatReadableSize(sum(bytes)) AS size,
    sum(rows) AS rows,
    max(modification_time) AS latest_modification
FROM system.parts
WHERE active
GROUP BY database, table
ORDER BY sum(bytes) DESC;

Common Analytics Queries

Time Series Analysis
sql
-- Daily active users
SELECT
    toDate(timestamp) AS date,
    uniq(user_id) AS daily_active_users
FROM events
WHERE timestamp >= today() - INTERVAL 30 DAY
GROUP BY date
ORDER BY date;

-- Retention analysis
SELECT
    signup_date,
    countIf(days_since_signup = 0) AS day_0,
    countIf(days_since_signup = 1) AS day_1,
    countIf(days_since_signup = 7) AS day_7,
    countIf(days_since_signup = 30) AS day_30
FROM (
    SELECT
        user_id,
        min(toDate(timestamp)) AS signup_date,
        toDate(timestamp) AS activity_date,
        dateDiff('day', signup_date, activity_date) AS days_since_signup
    FROM events
    GROUP BY user_id, activity_date
)
GROUP BY signup_date
ORDER BY signup_date DESC;
Funnel Analysis
sql
-- Conversion funnel
SELECT
    countIf(step = 'viewed_market') AS viewed,
    countIf(step = 'clicked_trade') AS clicked,
    countIf(step = 'completed_trade') AS completed,
    round(clicked / viewed * 100, 2) AS view_to_click_rate,
    round(completed / clicked * 100, 2) AS click_to_completion_rate
FROM (
    SELECT
        user_id,
        session_id,
        event_type AS step
    FROM events
    WHERE event_date = today()
)
GROUP BY session_id;
Cohort Analysis
sql
-- User cohorts by signup month
SELECT
    toStartOfMonth(signup_date) AS cohort,
    toStartOfMonth(activity_date) AS month,
    dateDiff('month', cohort, month) AS months_since_signup,
    count(DISTINCT user_id) AS active_users
FROM (
    SELECT
        user_id,
        min(toDate(timestamp)) OVER (PARTITION BY user_id) AS signup_date,
        toDate(timestamp) AS activity_date
    FROM events
)
GROUP BY cohort, month, months_since_signup
ORDER BY cohort, months_since_signup;

Data Pipeline Patterns

ETL Pattern
typescript
// Extract, Transform, Load
async function etlPipeline() {
  // 1. Extract from source
  const rawData = await extractFromPostgres()

  // 2. Transform
  const transformed = rawData.map(row => ({
    date: new Date(row.created_at).toISOString().split('T')[0],
    market_id: row.market_slug,
    volume: parseFloat(row.total_volume),
    trades: parseInt(row.trade_count)
  }))

  // 3. Load to ClickHouse
  await bulkInsertToClickHouse(transformed)
}

// Run periodically
setInterval(etlPipeline, 60 * 60 * 1000)  // Every hour
Change Data Capture (CDC)
typescript
// Listen to PostgreSQL changes and sync to ClickHouse
import { Client } from 'pg'

const pgClient = new Client({ connectionString: process.env.DATABASE_URL })

pgClient.query('LISTEN market_updates')

pgClient.on('notification', async (msg) => {
  const update = JSON.parse(msg.payload)

  await clickhouse.insert({
    table: 'market_updates',
    values: [
      {
        market_id: update.id,
        event_type: update.operation,  // INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
        timestamp: new Date(),
        data: JSON.stringify(update.new_data)
      }
    ],
    format: 'JSONEachRow'
  })
})

Best Practices

1. Partitioning Strategy
  • Partition by time (usually month or day)
  • Avoid too many partitions (performance impact)
  • Use DATE type for partition key
2. Ordering Key
  • Put most frequently filtered columns first
  • Consider cardinality (high cardinality first)
  • Order impacts compression
3. Data Types
  • Use smallest appropriate type (UInt32 vs UInt64)
  • Use LowCardinality for repeated strings
  • Use Enum for categorical data
4. Avoid
  • SELECT * (specify columns)
  • FINAL (merge data before query instead)
  • Too many JOINs (denormalize for analytics)
  • Small frequent inserts (batch instead)
5. Monitoring
  • Track query performance
  • Monitor disk usage
  • Check merge operations
  • Review slow query log

Remember: ClickHouse excels at analytical workloads. Design tables for your query patterns, batch inserts, and leverage materialized views for real-time aggregations.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/clickhouse-io of affaan-m/ECC.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2d515e4

Used in 1 other repository

We found 2 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in affaan-m/ECC, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Clickhouse Io

What does Clickhouse Io do?

ClickHouse database patterns, query optimization, analytics, and data engineering best practices for high-performance analytical workloads. Clickhouse Io is an agent skill from affaan-m/ECC. ClickHouse database patterns, query optimization, analytics, and data engineering best practices for high-performance analytical workloads.

When should I use Clickhouse Io?

Clickhouse Io fits situations like: writing ClickHouse schemas; an analytical query is too slow.

How do I install Clickhouse Io in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add affaan-m/ECC --skill clickhouse-io -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/clickhouse-io in affaan-m/ECC) into .claude/skills/clickhouse-io in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Clickhouse Io in Codex?

Run `npx skills add affaan-m/ECC --skill clickhouse-io -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/clickhouse-io in affaan-m/ECC) into .agents/skills/clickhouse-io in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Clickhouse Io in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add affaan-m/ECC --skill clickhouse-io -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/clickhouse-io, .gemini/skills/clickhouse-io, .github/skills/clickhouse-io and .opencode/skills/clickhouse-io in your project.

What does Clickhouse Io need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Clickhouse Io needs credentials named CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD.

Does Clickhouse Io access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Clickhouse Io safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Clickhouse Io use?

Clickhouse Io is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Clickhouse Io use?

About 2.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 11k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Clickhouse Io?

affaan-m (a GitHub user) maintains it in affaan-m/ECC, which has 276,673 GitHub stars. The repository holds 683 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 11, 2026.

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