mssql-performance-skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

mssql-performance-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from vanterx/mssql-performance-skills. It costs 12,560 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of instructions and slash-command skills for improving Microsoft SQL Server performance. SQL Server is Microsoft's database system; the collection reviews queries, execution plans, traces, locks, indexes, and server health data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review T-SQL, query-plan files, I/O and timing results, deadlocks, wait statistics, Query Store data, stored-procedure statistics, and SQL Server availability or configuration.
Why use it?
It helps identify why database work is slow, blocked, or using too many resources, and guides targeted tuning or migration-readiness checks.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PostToolUse hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions .claude-plugin; positional $N argument.

This is vanterx/mssql-performance-skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on mssql-performance-skills itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything mssql-performance-skills configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to vanterx/mssql-performance-skills. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vanterx/mssql-performance-skills/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanterx/mssql-performance-skills

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Grade A, and why

mssql-performance-skills CLAUDE.md 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 9d 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.md · 335 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 335 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

mssql-performance-skills

A Claude Code skills library for SQL Server performance tuning — T-SQL static analysis, execution plan review, I/O statistics, workload traces, index recommendations, deadlock diagnosis, live blocking chain analysis, regression detection, and batch workload analysis.

Purpose

Provides twenty-nine slash-command skills — twenty-five specialised review skills, three SQL Server migration-readiness skills, plus one agentic orchestrator (mssql-performance-review) that dispatches the right specialised skill(s) to mixed artifact inputs. Specialised skills cover T-SQL source code, .sqlplan XML files, STATISTICS IO/TIME output, Profiler/XE trace data, deadlock graphs, index recommendations, live blocking chains (head blocker identification, lock escalation and Sch-M evidence, transaction and isolation design faults), wait statistics, Query Store data, procedure/trigger/function runtime stats collected from sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats, Always On AG health from sys.dm_hadr_* DMVs, Always On AG configuration correctness (prerequisites, replica design, listener architecture, backup strategy, endpoint security, distributed AG topology, Basic and Contained AG constraints), Windows Server Failover Cluster log files, SQL Server ERRORLOG files, SQL Server SPN and Kerberos delegation configuration, server memory pressure analysis, file-level I/O latency analysis, full encryption infrastructure (TDE, Always Encrypted, CLE, backup encryption, TLS, certificate/key lifecycle, key hierarchy, EKM, compliance), instance/database configuration drift (MAXDOP, Max Server Memory, auto-shrink, compatibility level, RCSI, VLF count, IFI, TempDB sizing, surface area), SQL Server Setup Bootstrap log analysis (failed installs/patches, setup rules, ConfigurationFile.ini review), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) report server trace log analysis (trace configuration, database connectivity, memory/AppDomain recycling, report processing performance, subscription delivery, scale-out encryption keys), SQL Server migration readiness (version/edition/platform compatibility, security-object portability, operational-object portability) for moves between on-prem instances and to/from Azure SQL, and Windows Performance Monitor counter analysis for the host itself (CPU attribution between SQL Server and other processes, privileged/kernel time, page life expectancy shape, virtual address space growth, per-volume disk latency, compilation rates against batch throughput, client cancellation rate, capture integrity), and two-period workload comparison (baseline against current, fast day against slow day, before and after a change: per-query regressions matched by query_hash and classified as CPU-, reads- or wait-driven, new and disappeared heavy queries, execution-volume shifts, and configuration, version and wait-profile differences). No application code — content is Markdown only.

Read the full file on GitHub · 335 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.

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mssql-performance-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository vanterx/mssql-performance-skills (12 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12,560 tokens to every session, about $0.0502 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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