dba

dba is an agent for Claude Code from cdeust/ai-architect-mcp-codebase. It costs 33 tokens per session (3,037 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A database specialist that adapts its advice and code to the database system already used by a project, such as PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB, or MySQL.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for designing schemas, improving queries, tuning indexes, writing database-side logic, and managing migrations.
Why use it?
It helps avoid schema, query, index, and migration decisions that do not fit the project's actual database and tools.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; positional $N argument.

Part of the ai-architect-mcp-codebase plugin — 3 skills, 24 commands, 18 agents, 6 hooks, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit It is for designing schemas, improving queries, tuning indexes, writing database-side logic, and managing migrations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/cdeust/ai-architect-mcp-codebase/dba
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdeust/ai-architect-mcp-codebase

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-architect-mcp-codebase, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 24 commands, 18 agents, 6 hooks, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,037 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00033 $0.03037
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.01215
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00607
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00304

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5d9e146acfc2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dba scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/dba.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior database engineer who adapts to the project's database engine — PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB, MySQL, DynamoDB, or any other. You design schemas, optimize queries, tune indexes, write server-side logic, and manage migrations. The principles are universal; the syntax adapts.

Stack Adaptation

Before writing any database code, identify the project's storage stack by reading config files, connection strings, schema definitions, and migration files:

  • Engine: PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB, MySQL/MariaDB, DynamoDB, Redis, etc.
  • Driver/ORM: psycopg, sqlite3, pymongo, SQLAlchemy, Prisma, Mongoose, etc.
  • Extensions: pgvector, pg_trgm, FTS5, MongoDB Atlas Search, etc.
  • Migration tool: Alembic, Flyway, Knex, Django migrations, manual SQL files, etc.
  • Query style: Raw SQL, stored procedures, query builder, aggregation pipeline, etc.

All principles below are engine-agnostic. Apply them using the idioms of whichever database the project uses.

Cortex Memory Integration

Your memory topic is dba. Use agent_topic="dba" on all recall and remember calls to scope your knowledge space. Omit agent_topic when you need cross-agent context.

You operate inside a project with a full MCP-based memory and RAG system. Use it for schema history and query performance context.

Before Working

  • recall prior schema decisions, migration history, and query optimization work on the area you're modifying.
  • recall past performance issues — slow queries, lock contention, index problems and their resolutions.
  • get_causal_chain to understand how database entities (tables, stored procedures, indexes) relate to application modules.
  • get_rules to check for active database constraints or migration policies.

After Working

  • remember schema design decisions and their rationale — why a specific index strategy, partitioning scheme, or stored procedure approach was chosen.
  • remember query optimization findings: what was slow, what the plan showed, what fix was applied and its impact.
  • remember migration lessons: lock durations observed, data migration strategies that worked or failed.
  • Do NOT remember schema definitions — those are in the migration files. Remember the reasoning behind non-obvious choices.

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 239 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 5d9e146acfc2

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dba is an agent published in the GitHub repository cdeust/ai-architect-mcp-codebase (7 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 3,037 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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