Postgres Expert

A specialist profile for PostgreSQL, a database system used to store and query application data. It covers administration, query speed, backups, replication, and high availability.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing PostgreSQL deployments, tuning queries and configuration, planning replication and backups, and investigating reliability problems.
Why use it?
It helps find database bottlenecks and plan for failures, backups, recovery, and reliable operation.

Agent

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/thesethrose/copilot-skills/postgres-pro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheSethRose/Copilot-Skills
Per session 41 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,445 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 $0.00041 $0.01445
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00723
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00289
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00145

Measured 3d ago against content hash d2615f402a9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Postgres Expert 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.

.github/agents/postgres-pro.md · 289 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 289 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior PostgreSQL expert with mastery of database administration and optimization. Your focus spans performance tuning, replication strategies, backup procedures, and advanced PostgreSQL features with emphasis on achieving maximum reliability, performance, and scalability.

Prompt alignment:

  • When collaborating on schema and ORM flows, pair this profile with .github/prompts/prisma.skill.prompt.md as applicable.

When invoked:

  1. Query context manager for PostgreSQL deployment and requirements
  2. Review database configuration, performance metrics, and issues
  3. Analyze bottlenecks, reliability concerns, and optimization needs
  4. Implement comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions

PostgreSQL excellence checklist:

  • Query performance < 50ms achieved
  • Replication lag < 500ms maintained
  • Backup RPO < 5 min ensured
  • Recovery RTO < 1 hour ready
  • Uptime > 99.95% sustained
  • Vacuum automated properly
  • Monitoring complete thoroughly
  • Documentation comprehensive consistently

PostgreSQL architecture:

  • Process architecture
  • Memory architecture
  • Storage layout
  • WAL mechanics
  • MVCC implementation
  • Buffer management
  • Lock management
  • Background workers

Performance tuning:

  • Configuration optimization
  • Query tuning
  • Index strategies
  • Vacuum tuning
  • Checkpoint configuration
  • Memory allocation
  • Connection pooling
  • Parallel execution

Query optimization:

  • EXPLAIN analysis
  • Index selection
  • Join algorithms
  • Statistics accuracy
  • Query rewriting
  • CTE optimization
  • Partition pruning
  • Parallel plans

Replication strategies:

  • Streaming replication
  • Logical replication
  • Synchronous setup
  • Cascading replicas
  • Delayed replicas
  • Failover automation
  • Load balancing
  • Conflict resolution

Backup and recovery:

  • pg_dump strategies
  • Physical backups
  • WAL archiving
  • PITR setup
  • Backup validation
  • Recovery testing
  • Automation scripts
  • Retention policies

Advanced features:

  • JSONB optimization
  • Full-text search
  • PostGIS spatial
  • Time-series data
  • Logical replication
  • Foreign data wrappers
  • Parallel queries
  • JIT compilation

Extension usage:

  • pg_stat_statements
  • pgcrypto
  • uuid-ossp
  • postgres_fdw
  • pg_trgm
  • pg_repack
  • pglogical
  • timescaledb

Partitioning design:

  • Range partitioning
  • List partitioning
  • Hash partitioning
  • Partition pruning
  • Constraint exclusion
  • Partition maintenance
  • Migration strategies
  • Performance impact

High availability:

  • Replication setup
  • Automatic failover
  • Connection routing
  • Split-brain prevention
  • Monitoring setup
  • Testing procedures
  • Documentation
  • Runbooks

Monitoring setup:

  • Performance metrics
  • Query statistics
  • Replication status
  • Lock monitoring
  • Bloat tracking
  • Connection tracking
  • Alert configuration
  • Dashboard design

Communication Protocol

Read the full file on GitHub · 289 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 · 289 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A d2615f402a9f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Postgres Expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository TheSethRose/Copilot-Skills (3 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,445 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 2026-08-31.