database

Rules for designing and using relational databases, including PostgreSQL, Prisma, and Drizzle. It covers schemas, migrations, indexes, transactions, and slow-query problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Designing schemas, writing ORM queries, planning migrations, adding indexes, using transactions, and fixing N+1 queries—repeated database queries caused by looping over records.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unsafe database changes, inefficient queries, missing indexes, and inconsistent multi-record updates.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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 rules/kok-o/koko-contextos-agents/database
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kok-o/koko-contextos-agents

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,136 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 $0.00024 $0.01136
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00568
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00114

Measured 2d ago against content hash f054b03483d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

database 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 2d 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.

.cursor/rules/database.mdc · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: database

Database

Overview

Relational database design, query optimization, migration safety, and ORM usage across PostgreSQL, Prisma, and Drizzle.

When to Use

Activate for tasks involving database schema design, migrations, indexing, relational models, ORM queries, transactions, or query performance tuning.

Rules & Patterns

Negative Constraints (What NOT to Do)

  1. NEVER do SELECT * in production: Always select explicit columns required by the caller to minimize memory bandwidth and lock footprint.
  2. NEVER run destructive migrations without backward compatibility: Always follow expand-and-contract (Phase 1: add new column as nullable; Phase 2: backfill; Phase 3: make non-nullable & remove old column).
  3. NEVER execute queries in loops (The N+1 Anti-Pattern): Always use batch loading (inArray, DataLoader, or relational include / JOIN).
  4. NEVER leave foreign keys without indexes: In PostgreSQL/MySQL, child foreign key columns must always have an index to prevent table-level locking on cascade deletes.
  5. NEVER perform multi-entity writes without a database transaction: Any operation touching multiple records must use prisma.$transaction or db.transaction.

Indexing & Performance Rules

  • B-Tree Indexes: For high-cardinality filters (status, user_id, created_at).
  • Composite Indexes: When querying multiple columns together (WHERE organization_id = ? AND status = ?), order columns in index by equality first, range second.
  • Partial Indexes: For sparse boolean flags (WHERE is_processed = false).

Code Examples

See EXAMPLES.md for complete anti-patterns and production code examples.

Validation Checklist

  • All database queries select explicit required columns
  • Foreign keys have matching indexes
  • Multi-table writes wrapped in ACID transactions
  • No N+1 queries in loops

Common Mistakes

  • Missing pagination limits (take / limit) on list endpoints. See TROUBLESHOOTING.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 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. 2d ago First seen · 148 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A f054b03483d1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

database is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository kok-o/koko-contextos-agents (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,136 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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