db-migration

Rules for changing a database schema with Flyway, a tool that applies numbered database changes in order. They cover SQL and Java migration files, version numbers, naming, and the project's baseline.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when creating, modifying, troubleshooting, versioning, or consolidating Flyway migrations and schema changes.
Why use it?
They reduce migration-order errors and help keep database changes versioned and reproducible across environments.

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/nerds-odd-e/doughnut/db-migration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nerds-odd-e/doughnut

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,638 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 $0.00023 $0.01638
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00819
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00164

Measured 2d ago against content hash dd1f652f39da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

db-migration 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/db-migration.mdc · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Database Migration Guidelines

When to Use This Rule

Use this rule when:

  • Creating new database migrations
  • Modifying database schema
  • Understanding migration file naming conventions
  • Working with Flyway migrations
  • Troubleshooting migration issues
  • Versioning database changes
  • Squashing / collapsing historical migrations into the baseline

Migration Tool

The project uses Flyway for database migrations, configured in Spring Boot.

Migration Files Location

  • SQL migrations: backend/src/main/resources/db/migration/
  • Java migrations: backend/src/main/java/db/migration/
  • Files follow the naming convention: V{version}__{description}.sql (or .java)
    • Example: V300000301__rename_a_column.sql (version must exceed 300000300)

Version Numbering

  • Versions use a numerical format

The project uses versioned files named V{number}__{description}.sql. The current full application DDL is collapsed into V100000000__baseline.sql; V300000300__db_migration_placeholder.sql is a placeholder for the next migration.

New migrations need to use a greater version number than 300000300.

Migration Process

  • Migrations run automatically when the application starts (non-test environments)
  • Non-test startup runs flyway.repair() then flyway.migrate() (FlyWayFreeVersionRealMigration). repair() is what makes squashing safe on existing databases (checksum realign + remove history for deleted files).
  • For unit tests, DB migration is included in the test command (see backend-development rule for test execution)

Migration file structure

  • V100000000__baseline.sql holds the collapsed full DDL (fresh installs).
  • V300000300__db_migration_placeholder.sql is the tail placeholder; add new migrations with a higher version.
  • Each new file after that should contain one atomic change (create/alter/rename/drop as needed).

Best Practices:

  • Each migration should be reversible when possible
  • Migrations are version controlled and should never be modified once committed (except the intentional baseline content replace during a squash — see below)
  • New changes should always be added as new migration files
  • Clear, descriptive names should be used for migration files to indicate their purpose

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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 · 95 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A dd1f652f39da

Subscribe to this mod's changes

db-migration is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository nerds-odd-e/doughnut (49 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,638 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 2026-08-30.