Official agent skill

Ssma Console

by github in github/awesome-copilot

A skill your agent uses when: SSMA console operations — create project, generate assessment report, convert schema, migrate data, Oracle to SQL Server migration, schema conversion, data migration

OfficialMITAuto-check passedDatabases

Install Ssma Console

skills CLI
$ npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill ssma-console -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install github/awesome-copilot ssma-console --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/github/awesome-copilot.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/ssma-console .claude/skills/ssma-console && 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
ssma-console
GitHub stars
40k
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
327 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
417
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when: SSMA console operations — create project, generate assessment report, convert schema, migrate data, Oracle to SQL Server migration, schema conversion, data migration

  • Works in 4 steps: create-project — connect source &… → generate-report — assessment report → migrate-schema — convert & deploy schema → …
  • : SSMA console operations — create project
  • SKILL.md covers Collect Inputs, Generate XML Files, Execute and Report Results, plus 2 more sections
  • Needs ORACLE_PASSWORD and SQL_PASSWORD

What it does

Ssma Console is an agent skill from github/awesome-copilot, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Use when: SSMA console operations — create project, generate assessment report, convert schema, migrate data, Oracle to SQL Server migration, schema conversion, data migration

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k 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. It works with Microsoft SQL Server. The repository describes itself as: Community-contributed instructions, agents, skills, and configurations to help you make the most of GitHub Copilot. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • : SSMA console operations — create project
  • Generate assessment report
  • Oracle to SQL Server migration
  • Schema conversion

Example prompts

  • “/ssma-console”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. create-project — connect source & target, map schema
  2. generate-report — assessment report
  3. migrate-schema — convert & deploy schema
  4. migrate-data — convert, deploy, migrate data end-to-end

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 727ff2e. 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 xml and powershell).

    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:

    • ORACLE_PASSWORD
    • SQL_PASSWORD

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

Context cost

Ssma Console loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 47 tokens; SKILL.md has 327 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~47
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k

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 github/awesome-copilot at commit 727ff2e, republished under its MIT licence (© github). 327 words, ~1,784 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ssma-console/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ssma-console
description
Use when: SSMA console operations — create project, generate assessment report, convert schema, migrate data, Oracle to SQL Server migration, schema conversion, data migration

SSMA Console — Oracle to SQL Server Migration

Generate XML configs and invoke SSMAforOracleConsole.exe directly — no external scripts or wrappers.

Operations (run in order for "full migration"):

  1. create-project — connect source & target, map schema
  2. generate-report — assessment report
  3. migrate-schema — convert & deploy schema
  4. migrate-data — convert, deploy, migrate data end-to-end

Collect Inputs

Ask for missing parameters. Defaults in parentheses.

Oracle: Host (localhost), Port (1521), Instance (required, service name), User, Password, Schema SQL Server: Server, Database, User, Password, Encrypt (true), Trust Server Certificate (true), Target Schema (dbo) Project: Name (ssma-migration), Folder (.), Type (sql-server-2022 — also 2016/2017/2019/2025/sql-azure), SSMA Path (C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant for Oracle\bin\SSMAforOracleConsole.exe)

Generate XML Files

Resolve ALL {PLACEHOLDER} tokens before writing. Generate 3 files:

ssma-variables.xml
xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<variables>
  <variable name="$WorkingFolder$" value="{PROJECT_FOLDER}" />
  <variable name="$ProjectType$" value="{PROJECT_TYPE}" />
  <variable name="$ProjectName$" value="{PROJECT_NAME}" />
  <variable-group name="OracleConnection">
    <variable name="$OracleHostName$" value="{ORACLE_HOST}" />
    <variable name="$OracleInstance$" value="{ORACLE_INSTANCE}" />
    <variable name="$OraclePort$" value="{ORACLE_PORT}" />
    <variable name="$OracleUserName$" value="{ORACLE_USER}" />
    <variable name="$OraclePassword$" value="{ORACLE_PASSWORD}" />
    <variable name="$OracleSchemaName$" value="{ORACLE_SCHEMA}" />
  </variable-group>
  <variable-group name="SQLServerConnection">
    <variable name="$SQLServerName$" value="{SQL_SERVER}" />
    <variable name="$SQLServerDb$" value="{SQL_DATABASE}" />
    <variable name="$SQLServerUsrID$" value="{SQL_USER}" />
    <variable name="$SQLServerPwd$" value="{SQL_PASSWORD}" />
  </variable-group>
  <variable-group name="ReportSettings">
    <variable name="$SummaryReportFile$" value="Reports\Assessment\AssessmentReport.xml" />
    <variable name="$ConversionReportFile$" value="Reports\Conversion\ConversionReport.xml" />
    <variable name="$ConversionReportFolder$" value="Reports\Conversion" />
    <variable name="$DataMigrationReportFile$" value="Reports\Migration\DataMigrationReport.xml" />
    <variable name="$SynchronizationReportFolder$" value="Reports\Synchronization" />
  </variable-group>
</variables>
ssma-servers.xml

CRITICAL: Use tns-name-mode — standard-mode treats instance as SID and fails with ORA-12505.

xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<servers>
  <oracle name="source_oracle">
    <tns-name-mode>
      <connection-provider value="OracleClient" />
      <service-name value="(DESCRIPTION =(ADDRESS_LIST =(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = $OracleHostName$)(PORT = $OraclePort$)))(CONNECT_DATA =(SERVICE_NAME = $OracleInstance$)))" />
      <user-id value="$OracleUserName$" />
      <password value="$OraclePassword$" />
    </tns-name-mode>
  </oracle>
  <sql-server name="target_sqlserver">
    <sql-server-authentication>
      <server value="$SQLServerName$" />
      <database value="$SQLServerDb$" />
      <user-id value="$SQLServerUsrID$" />
      <password value="$SQLServerPwd$" />
      <encrypt value="{ENCRYPT}" />
      <trust-server-certificate value="{TRUST_CERT}" />
    </sql-server-authentication>
  </sql-server>
</servers>
Operation Script XML

Generate one script per operation. All scripts share this common <config> block (add <object-overwrite action="overwrite" /> for migrate-schema/migrate-data, add <data-migration-connection source-use-last-used="true" target-server="target_sqlserver" /> for migrate-data, use every-5% progress for schema/data ops):

xml
<config>
  <output-providers>
    <output-window suppress-messages="false" destination="stdout" />
    <upgrade-project action="yes" />
    <user-input-popup mode="continue" />
    <progress-reporting enable="true" report-messages="true" report-progress="every-10%" />
    <log-verbosity level="info" />
  </output-providers>
</config>

All scripts start with this preamble in <script-commands>:

xml
<create-new-project project-folder="$WorkingFolder$" project-name="$ProjectName$"
                    overwrite-if-exists="true" project-type="$ProjectType$" />
<connect-source-database server="source_oracle">
  <object-to-collect object-name="$OracleSchemaName$" />
</connect-source-database>

CRITICAL: Always include <object-to-collect> — without it, map-schema fails with "Source namespace was not found".

Per-operation commands (after preamble, before <save-project />):

OperationFileCommands after preamble
create-projectssma-create-project.xmlconnect-target-database → map-schema source-schema="$OracleSchemaName$" sql-server-schema="$SQLServerDb$.{TARGET_SCHEMA}"
generate-reportssma-assessment.xmlgenerate-assessment-report object-name="$OracleSchemaName$" object-type="Schemas" write-summary-report-to="$SummaryReportFile$" verbose="true" report-errors="true"
migrate-schemassma-schema.xmlconnect-target-database → map-schema → convert-schema (to $ConversionReportFile$) → synchronize-target object-name="$SQLServerDb$.{TARGET_SCHEMA}"
migrate-datassma-data.xmlSame as migrate-schema + refresh-from-database → migrate-data object-name="$OracleSchemaName$.Tables" object-type="category" (to $DataMigrationReportFile$) → close-project

Execute

Show resolved XML and command to user. Confirm before running.

powershell
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path "Reports\Assessment","Reports\Conversion","Reports\Migration","Reports\Synchronization","Logs" | Out-Null
& "{SSMA_CONSOLE_PATH}" -s "{SCRIPT_XML}" -c "ssma-servers.xml" -v "ssma-variables.xml" -l "Logs\{OPERATION}.log"

Report Results

Check exit code (0 = success), read logs and reports (Reports\Assessment\, Reports\Conversion\, Reports\Migration\), summarize findings.

Constraints

  • No external scripts — no .ps1, .bat, .sh
  • Confirm connection details before executing
  • Resolve all placeholders — no {...} in final XML
  • Create output directories before execution

Known Pitfalls

SymptomFix
ORA-12505: SID not registeredUse tns-name-mode, not standard-mode
Source namespace was not foundAdd <object-to-collect> to connect-source-database
not found in metabase on force-loadUse object-to-collect instead — force-load is unreliable
SQL Server Agent is not runningWarning only — BCP client-side migration still works

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/ssma-console of github/awesome-copilot.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 727ff2e

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Questions about Ssma Console

What does Ssma Console do?

A skill your agent uses when: SSMA console operations — create project, generate assessment report, convert schema, migrate data, Oracle to SQL Server migration, schema conversion, data migration. Ssma Console is an agent skill from github/awesome-copilot, published by the product's own GitHub organization.

When should I use Ssma Console?

Ssma Console fits situations like: : SSMA console operations — create project; generate assessment report; oracle to SQL Server migration; schema conversion.

How do I install Ssma Console in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill ssma-console -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/ssma-console in github/awesome-copilot) into .claude/skills/ssma-console in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Ssma Console in Codex?

Run `npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill ssma-console -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/ssma-console in github/awesome-copilot) into .agents/skills/ssma-console in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Ssma Console 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 github/awesome-copilot --skill ssma-console -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ssma-console, .gemini/skills/ssma-console, .github/skills/ssma-console and .opencode/skills/ssma-console in your project.

What does Ssma Console need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Ssma Console needs credentials named ORACLE_PASSWORD and SQL_PASSWORD.

Does Ssma Console 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 Ssma Console 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 Ssma Console use?

Ssma Console 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 Ssma Console use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.1k 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 Ssma Console?

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Who maintains Ssma Console?

github (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in github/awesome-copilot, which has 39,748 GitHub stars. The repository holds 417 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

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