Skillintermediate

handbook-elasticsearch

Elasticsearch and Kibana REST API skill for Claude Code. Teaches Claude how to interact with Elasticsearch clusters via `curl` — no SDK, no MCP server, just markdown.

Claude Code Knowledge Pack7/10/2026

Overview

handbook-elasticsearch

Elasticsearch and Kibana REST API skill for Claude Code. Teaches Claude how to interact with Elasticsearch clusters via curl — no SDK, no MCP server, just markdown.

What's Included

File	Coverage
`SKILL.md`	Auth, search, CRUD, bulk ops, index management, cluster health, ILM, ES\
`references/query-dsl.md`	Full Query DSL — bool, match, term, range, nested, geo, wildcards, runtime fields
`references/aggregations.md`	Metric, bucket, and pipeline aggregations — SRE patterns (error rates, top-N)
`references/aggregations-api.md`	Aggregation API patterns with composite pagination
`references/search-api.md`	Search endpoint, ES\
`references/document-api.md`	CRUD, bulk API, delete/update by query
`references/index-api.md`	Index create/delete, reindex, aliases, ILM, shrink/split, rollover
`references/cluster-api.md`	Cluster health, node stats, shard allocation, cat APIs
`references/mapping-api.md`	Field types, dynamic mapping/templates, runtime fields
`references/kibana-api.md`	Data views, dashboards, saved objects, programmatic Lens panels, alerting
`references/otel-data.md`	OpenTelemetry logs/traces/metrics querying, trace-log correlation

Configuration

Set cluster credentials as environment variables:


# Optional, for Kibana API access:

Credits

Based on davidgeorgehope/elasticsearch-skill.