Algolia
A Claude skill from ashish7802/awesome-api-skills.
Install
$ agentstack add skill-ashish7802-awesome-api-skills-algolia ✓ scanned · ✓ verified, works with Claude Code, Cursor, and more.
Security review
✓ PassedNo issues found. Passed automated security review. · v0.1.0 How review works →
- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
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Declared compatibility
Compatibility is declared by the source manifest. End-to-end runtime verification is coming, see below.
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Algolia API Skill
Overview
Algolia provides ultra-fast full-text search. This skill focuses on indexing data from the backend and searching from the frontend.
Installation
npm install algoliasearch
pip install algoliasearchAuthentication
Frontend clients use the Search-Only API Key. Backends use the Admin API Key for indexing. Never expose the Admin key.
Core Concepts
- Index: A collection of searchable JSON records.
- ObjectID: The unique identifier for a record.
- Facets: Attributes used for filtering and categorization.
Common Workflows
- Backend: Initialize client with Admin Key.
- Push records to index via
saveObjects. - Frontend: Initialize client with Search Key and query.
Error Handling
Handle ApiError. Common errors are Payload Too Large (chunk your saveObjects calls) and Invalid Credentials.
Security
Use Secured API Keys to restrict frontend search access (e.g., scoping a user's search token to only return their own data).
Rate Limits
Limits are massive, but batch indexing should be limited to chunks of 1,000 to 10,000 records to prevent timeout.
Best Practices
Do not store massive text blocks (like full articles) in a single record attribute. Truncate or chunk records to keep them under the 10KB to 100KB limits.
Troubleshooting
If search results are inaccurate, check the index's 'Searchable Attributes' configuration in the Algolia Dashboard.
References
Why use this skill
Use this when your agent works with algolia — structured patterns beat pasted docs and prevent common hallucinations.
AI pitfalls
- Using outdated SDK or API versions from training data
- Inventing environment variable names
- Omitting error handling and retry logic
Production checklist
- [ ] Secrets in environment variables, not source code
- [ ] Error handling and logging in place
- [ ] Rate limits and timeouts configured
Related skills
- No graph relationships yet — see the knowledge graph in the docs site.
> Last Verified: 2026-07-02
Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: ashish7802
- Source: ashish7802/awesome-api-skills
- License: MIT
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.