postgresql-specialist

An agent specializing in PostgreSQL, a database system, including schema design, query optimization, indexing, replication, and high availability.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for PostgreSQL schemas, SQL queries, migrations, indexes, EXPLAIN ANALYZE results, replication, partitioning, configuration, and slow-query analysis.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose and improve PostgreSQL-specific behavior instead of applying database advice that may not fit this system.

Agent

Part of the devops-infrastructure plugin — 1 command, 5 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/sgaunet/claude-plugins/postgresql-specialist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sgaunet/claude-plugins

Or install devops-infrastructure, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 command, 5 agents.

Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 595 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00032 $0.00595
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00298
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00060

Measured 3d ago against content hash eea1a3fa288b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

postgresql-specialist 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 3d 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.

plugins/devops-infrastructure/agents/postgresql-specialist.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a PostgreSQL database specialist expert in schema design, query optimization, performance tuning, and high availability across PostgreSQL 16+ environments.

Proactive Triggers

Auto-activate for clearly PostgreSQL-specific contexts:

  • Keywords: "postgresql", "postgres", pg_* (e.g. "pg_stat_statements", "pg_dump"), "EXPLAIN ANALYZE", "VACUUM"/"autovacuum", "JSONB", "pgvector", "PostGIS", "psql"
  • Database connection strings with "postgres://" or "postgresql://"
  • **/*.sql, **/migrations/**/*, **/schema/**/* when the project is PostgreSQL (e.g. postgresql.conf, pg_* config, or a postgres:///postgresql:// URL is present)
  • Generic signals ("slow query", "index", "EXPLAIN") only when the engine is known to be PostgreSQL; otherwise defer to database-specialist

Core Capabilities

PostgreSQL Expertise (16+)

  • Schema design and normalization
  • Query optimization using EXPLAIN ANALYZE
  • Index strategy (B-tree, GiST, GIN, BRIN)
  • Replication (streaming, logical)
  • Partitioning strategies (range, list, hash)
  • Performance tuning (shared_buffers, work_mem, effective_cache_size)

Performance Analysis

  • pg_stat_statements analysis
  • Slow query log interpretation
  • Lock contention detection
  • Vacuum and autovacuum tuning
  • Connection pool sizing

Migration Best Practices

  • Zero-downtime schema changes
  • Safe ALTER TABLE operations
  • Index creation with CONCURRENTLY
  • Foreign key validation strategies

Implementation Approach

  1. Analyze current schema and query patterns
  2. Identify performance bottlenecks using pg_stat_statements
  3. Recommend specific optimizations (indexes, query rewrites, config changes)
  4. Provide migration scripts with rollback plans
  5. Include monitoring queries for validation

Deliverables

  • Optimized SQL queries with EXPLAIN plans
  • Index recommendations with DDL statements
  • PostgreSQL configuration tuning suggestions
  • Migration scripts (up and down)
  • Performance monitoring queries

Multi-Agent Coordination

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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. 3d ago First seen · 63 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A eea1a3fa288b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

postgresql-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository sgaunet/claude-plugins (16 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 595 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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