Topic · Databases

Best database administration skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.

Skills that run, tune, replicate and back up production databases.
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Database administration skills, ranked

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Database administration skills, ranked
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Guides safe, measurable MySQL and InnoDB changes across schema design, indexing, query tuning, transactions, locking and replication, with rollout steps.

planetscale/database-skills6983 repos~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
2

Guide for creating and maintaining outbox-based eventually consistent operations in Sentry.

getsentry/sentry45k—~4.8kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
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Analyze a reference video frame by frame and turn its visual grammar, story beats, dialogue, product reveal, proof sequence, and conversion structure into a production-ready ecommerce story-ad…

Jingyi-Wu-Richael/replicate-video-ad1061 repo~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence1 mo ago
4

Indexes reference files on Postgres schema design, indexing, partitioning, query patterns, MVCC and VACUUM, and PlanetScale-specific operations.

planetscale/database-skills6983 repos~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
5

A skill your agent uses when writing, editing, reviewing, validating, or explaining Unreal Engine C++ reflected declarations: UCLASS, USTRUCT, UENUM, UINTERFACE, UPROPERTY, UFUNCTION, UPARAM, UMETA…

fjz13/UnrealSpecifiers1.1k—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown4 mo ago
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Portable digital employee distilled from digoal's personal blog for PostgreSQL, PolarDB, DuckDB, AI+database, vector/RAG, database operations, source-code reading, technical content creation…

digoal/blog8.6k—~2.2kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-2.09 days ago
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Runs read-only lookups - list, describe, get - against a live YugabyteDB Anywhere control plane using the yba CLI, with mutating commands explicitly off-limits.

yugabyte/yugabyte-db11k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
8

Read, decrypt, query, search, and export local WeCom/企业微信 5.x desktop databases on macOS into a private read-only vault.

mcncarl/yichen-skills4.3k—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown3 days ago
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PostgreSQL database documentation - SQL queries, database design, administration, performance tuning, and advanced features. Use when working with…

2025Emma/vibe-coding-cn23k1 repo~19kAutomated safety check: PassMIT9 mo ago
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A skill your agent uses when managing Alibaba Cloud Simple Application Server (SWAS OpenAPI 2020-06-01) resources end-to-end, including querying instances, starting/stopping/rebooting, executing…

cinience/alicloud-skills3971 repo~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
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A skill your agent uses for Pest PHP testing in Laravel projects only.

liberusoftware/real-estate-laravel1121 repo~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
12

A skill your agent uses when building, wiring, reviewing, or debugging MailTime and ostrio:mailer email queues for horizontally scaled Node.js, Bun, or Meteor apps.

veliovgroup/mail-time143—~1kAutomated safety check: PassBSD-3-Clause6 days ago
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Inspects, queries and carefully modifies the MoviePilot SQLite or PostgreSQL database through a bundled script that reads connection settings itself, without needing the password in the prompt.

jxxghp/MoviePilot12k—~7.1kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.0today
14

Guides and best practices for working with Lakebase Postgres, the database behind Neon.

smontlouis/bible-strong1711 repo~2.3kAutomated safety check: NotesGPL-3.0today
15

End-to-end paper reproduction from arxiv URL through smoke runs to replication experiments.

fcakyon/phd-skills414—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT21 days ago
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Expert guidance for SeaORM 2.0, Rust's async ORM with strongly-typed columns, nested ActiveModels, Entity Loader API, and entity-first workflow.

FlyinPancake/yoink112—~2.9kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.02 days ago
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Overview and information about Neki, the sharded Postgres product by PlanetScale. Load when working with Neki-related tasks and the need to scale or…

planetscale/database-skills6981 repo~483Automated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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Read live production data from Bike Index through the admin OAuth token — Sidekiq and PgHero status, and the user-submitted bug reports — the same data as the cookie-gated dashboards, but…

bikeindex/bike_index308—~1.9kAutomated safety check: NotesAGPL-3.0today
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Database operations runbook — backup, recovery, performance tuning, troubleshooting.

OpenDCAI/DataMind406—~388Automated safety check: PassApache-2.017 days ago
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Image-to-code replication pipeline. An agent skill from Yu-369/VibeCurb.

Yu-369/VibeCurb980—~8.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 mo ago
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Guides and best practices for working with Lakebase Postgres, the database behind Neon.

usenotra/notra255—~4.1kAutomated safety check: NotesAGPL-3.0today
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Guidance on Vitess sharding, VSchema design, query tuning and connection problems for MySQL-compatible databases running on PlanetScale.

planetscale/database-skills6981 repo~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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SPD V1 Batch. An agent skill from flaqai/backlink_skills.

flaqai/backlink_skills750—~1.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT13 days ago
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Guide for setting up thread-safe database connection pooling (FireDAC / UniDAC) in multithreaded Horse applications.

HashLoad/horse1.4k—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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Back up the memorains production database and download the dump to the local backups/ directory.

redTreeOnWall/memorains124—~565Automated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
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Guides scalability and performance work for VeloxDB's Tauri + Rust PostgreSQL backend and React + TanStack frontend.

veloxbase/veloxdb646—~1.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
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A skill your agent uses when designing a test plan for a distributed or stateful system — anything with persistence, replication, consensus, retries, idempotency, async messaging, multi-tenancy, or…

shenli/distributed-system-testing231—~7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 mo ago
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Database performance optimization, schema design, query analysis, and connection management across PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and SQLite with ORM integration.

cin12211/orca-q223—~2.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT16 days ago
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Systematic audit and review by Referee 2. An agent skill from scunning1975/MixtapeTools.

scunning1975/MixtapeTools4692 repos~2.4kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence1 mo ago
30

Generates complete CRUD modules for NestJS applications with Drizzle ORM.

giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit355—~1.3kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT27 days ago
31

Work with Elodin-DB, the time-series telemetry database. An agent skill from elodin-sys/elodin.

elodin-sys/elodin547—~2.8kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
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Guide to deploying and running the Skill Base server with npx or Docker: startup options, data directory, port and base path, and SQLite database backup.

ginuim/skill-base120—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence15 days ago
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33.Redis ClusteringOfficial

Redis Cluster and replication guidance covering hash tags for multi-key operations, avoiding CROSSSLOT errors, and reading from replicas to scale read-heavy workloads.

redis/agent-skills1651 repo~1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT29 days ago
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PostgreSQL database administration — backup/restore (pgdump, PITR, WAL archiving), health monitoring (connections, bloat, cache hit ratio, dead tuples), connection pooling (PgBouncer), replication…

EliasOulkadi/shokunin114—~2kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT2 days ago
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Cialdini's seven principles of compliance (the classic six — reciprocation, commitment-consistency, social proof, liking, authority, scarcity — plus Unity, added 2016) and Pre-Suasion.

getagentseal/founder-playbook721—~3.8kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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Cuts the wait from push to green by measuring a pipeline's critical path from run timestamps, then splitting, sharding, trimming setup and sharing test module state, with a before/after ledger.

mblode/agent-skills142—~2.4kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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Redis client and connection guidance covering connection pooling, multiplexing, pipelining, client-side caching with RESP3, avoiding slow commands (KEYS, SMEMBERS, HGETALL), and tuning socket…

redis/agent-skills1651 repo~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT29 days ago
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Current Bun test runner guidance for discovery, isolation, parallelism, sharding, changed tests, mocks, timers, snapshots, coverage, DOM Testing Library, and integration teardown.

shepherdjerred/monorepo112—~2kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.0today
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Design database schemas with Prisma/Drizzle, PostgreSQL index strategy (B-tree, GIN, GiST, BRIN, Hash), query optimization (EXPLAIN ANALYZE), migration safety (expand/contract, zero-downtime), and…

EliasOulkadi/shokunin114—~3.1kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT2 days ago
40

Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA) distilled reference guide by Martin Kleppmann.

luoling8192/ai-coding-principles173—~4.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT6 mo ago
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Adds PyTorch FSDP2 (fullyshard) to training scripts with correct init, sharding, mixed precision/offload config, and distributed checkpointing.

Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs13k2 repos~2.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 mo ago
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Describe model or operator HIR with TileFoundry, inspect topology and placement, run static cost analysis, visualize authored dataflow, and check a runtime implementation against its evaluator.

sablin39/tilelang-cuda-skills144—~3.4kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence22 days ago
43

Read, decompose, and analyze IEEE-style papers using routed technical-reading workflows.

CloudWave818/ieee-skills353—~591Automated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
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In-memory caching in Golang using samber/hot — eviction algorithms (LRU, LFU, TinyLFU, W-TinyLFU, S3FIFO, ARC, TwoQueue, SIEVE, FIFO), TTL, cache loaders, sharding, stale-while-revalidate, missing…

samber/cc-skills-golang3.4k—~2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT6 days ago
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Queries MySQL or MariaDB databases declared in .env by label, read-only by default unless a connection explicitly allows writes.

evolution-foundation/evo-nexus544—~1.9kAutomated safety check: NotesUnknown4 mo ago
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A skill your agent uses when a result is surprising, impossible, contradicts a sanity check, a pipeline fails, a model won't converge, or a replication fails - before adjusting anything

K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers348—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown24 days ago
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Create custom external web service APIs for Moodle LMS. An agent skill from davila7/claude-code-templates.

davila7/claude-code-templates32k7 repos~4.6kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
48

JetBrains Exposed ORM patterns including DSL queries, DAO pattern, transactions, HikariCP connection pooling, Flyway migrations, and repository pattern.

affaan-m/ECC274k4 repos~5.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago

Questions, answered from the data.

What is the best database administration skill?

MySQL Schema and Query Tuning (official) from planetscale/database-skills ranks first of the 273 database administration skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 698 GitHub stars, 3 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 1.4k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Hybrid Cloud Outboxes and Replicate Video Ad.

Which database administration skills are official?

22 of the 273 database administration skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: MySQL Schema and Query Tuning, Hybrid Cloud Outboxes, PlanetScale Postgres Playbook, PlanetScale Neki Overview, Vitess for PlanetScale and 17 more.

How are these skills ranked?

By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.