Official agent skill

Qdrant Clients SDK

by qdrant in qdrant/skills

Qdrant provides client SDKs for various programming languages, allowing easy integration with Qdrant deployments.

OfficialApache-2.0Auto-check: notesDatabases

Install Qdrant Clients SDK

skills CLI
$ npx skills add qdrant/skills --skill qdrant-clients-sdk -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install qdrant/skills qdrant-clients-sdk --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/qdrant/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/qdrant-clients-sdk .claude/skills/qdrant-clients-sdk && rm -rf skills-src

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

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
qdrant-clients-sdk
GitHub stars
253
Used in
2 other repos
Token cost
~752 tokens
SKILL.md length
156 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
33
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Qdrant provides client SDKs for various programming languages, allowing easy integration with Qdrant deployments.

  • Tasks that involve Vector databases
  • SKILL.md covers API Reference and Code examples
  • Calls curl, pip and npm; reaches skills.qdrant.tech

What it does

Qdrant Clients SDK is an agent skill from qdrant/skills, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Qdrant provides client SDKs for various programming languages, allowing easy integration with Qdrant deployments.

Its SKILL.md is about 750 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 Vector databases. It works with Qdrant, Java, Rust and .NET. The repository describes itself as: Agent skills for Qdrant vector search: scaling, performance optimization, search quality, monitoring, deployment, model migration, version upgrades, and SDK usage across Python…. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Vector databases

Example prompts

  • “/qdrant-clients-sdk”

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • Node.js
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Grep, Glob, Bash

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 476a18d. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Grep
    • Glob
    • Bash

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • curl
    • pip
    • npm
    • cargo
    • go
    • dotnet

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

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • skills.qdrant.tech

    Also links to:

    • github.com
    • central.sonatype.com

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

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

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

Context cost

Qdrant Clients SDK loads about 752 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 33 tokens; SKILL.md has 156 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~33
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~752

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: notes

The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.

  • NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md
    allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash

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 qdrant/skills at commit 476a18d, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© qdrant). 156 words, ~752 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/qdrant-clients-sdk/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
qdrant-clients-sdk
description
Qdrant provides client SDKs for various programming languages, allowing easy integration with Qdrant deployments.
allowed-tools
Read, Grep, Glob, Bash

Qdrant Clients SDK

Qdrant has the following officially supported client SDKs:

API Reference

All interaction with Qdrant can happen through the REST API or gRPC API. We recommend using the REST API if you are using Qdrant for the first time or working on a prototype.

Code examples

To obtain code examples for a specific client and use case, you can send a search request to the library of curated code snippets for the Qdrant client.

bash
curl -X GET "https://skills.qdrant.tech/snippets/search?language=python&query=how+to+upload+points"

Available languages: python, typescript, rust, java, go, csharp

Response example:

markdown

## Snippet 1

*qdrant-client* (vlatest) — https://skills.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/manage-data/points/

Uploads multiple vector-embedded points to a Qdrant collection using the Python qdrant_client (PointStruct) with id, payload (e.g., color), and a 3D-like vector for similarity search. It supports parallel uploads (parallel=4) and a retry policy (max_retries=3) for robust indexing. The operation is idempotent: re-uploading with the same id overwrites existing points; if ids aren’t provided, Qdrant auto-generates UUIDs.

client.upload_points(
    collection_name="{collection_name}",
    points=[
        models.PointStruct(
            id=1,
            payload={
                "color": "red",
            },
            vector=[0.9, 0.1, 0.1],
        ),
        models.PointStruct(
            id=2,
            payload={
                "color": "green",
            },
            vector=[0.1, 0.9, 0.1],
        ),
    ],
    parallel=4,
    max_retries=3,
)

Default response format is markdown, if snippet output is required in JSON format, you can add &format=json to the query string.

© qdrant, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/qdrant-clients-sdk of qdrant/skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 476a18d

Used in 2 other repositories

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

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Categories

Questions about Qdrant Clients SDK

What does Qdrant Clients SDK do?

Qdrant provides client SDKs for various programming languages, allowing easy integration with Qdrant deployments. Qdrant Clients SDK is an agent skill from qdrant/skills, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Qdrant provides client SDKs for various programming languages, allowing easy integration with Qdrant deployments.

When should I use Qdrant Clients SDK?

Qdrant Clients SDK fits situations like: tasks that involve Vector databases.

How do I install Qdrant Clients SDK in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add qdrant/skills --skill qdrant-clients-sdk -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/qdrant-clients-sdk in qdrant/skills) into .claude/skills/qdrant-clients-sdk in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Qdrant Clients SDK in Codex?

Run `npx skills add qdrant/skills --skill qdrant-clients-sdk -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/qdrant-clients-sdk in qdrant/skills) into .agents/skills/qdrant-clients-sdk in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Qdrant Clients SDK 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 qdrant/skills --skill qdrant-clients-sdk -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/qdrant-clients-sdk, .gemini/skills/qdrant-clients-sdk, .github/skills/qdrant-clients-sdk and .opencode/skills/qdrant-clients-sdk in your project.

What does Qdrant Clients SDK need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Qdrant Clients SDK needs the command-line tools its instructions call (curl, pip, npm, cargo, go and dotnet). Our summary lists: Python 3; Node.js. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash.

Does Qdrant Clients SDK access the network?

SKILL.md names 3 domains. In commands or code: skills.qdrant.tech; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. As links in the text: github.com and central.sonatype.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Qdrant Clients SDK safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (pre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: bash)), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Qdrant Clients SDK use?

Qdrant Clients SDK is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Qdrant Clients SDK use?

About 752 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Qdrant Clients SDK?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Qdrant Clients SDK: Lancedb Update Lance Dependency (lancedb/lancedb, 12k stars), Qdrant Vector Search (Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs, 13k stars), DB (oracle/skills, 872 stars) and Qdrant (giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit, 355 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Qdrant Clients SDK?

qdrant (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in qdrant/skills, which has 253 GitHub stars. The repository holds 33 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: qdrant/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.