dont-apply-migrations

dont-apply-migrations is a skill for Claude Code from abstractonion/cadence. It costs 29 tokens per session (235 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A database-change rule that allows generating and reviewing a migration file but not applying it to a shared or production database. A migration is a recorded change to a database's structure or data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing backend models or database schemas. Generate, inspect, clean up, and commit the migration with the code change; apply it only to a clearly local or disposable database when explicitly requested.
Why use it?
It separates preparing a database change from deploying it, reducing the risk of changing a database used by other people or live software.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the cadence plugin — 38 skills, 15 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when changing backend models or database schemas. Generate, inspect, clean up, and commit the migration with the code change; apply it only to a clearly local or disposable database when explicitly requested.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abstractonion/cadence/dont-apply-migrations
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add abstractonion/cadence --skill dont-apply-migrations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/abstractonion/cadence

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cadence, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 15 commands, 5 agents.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 235 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00029 $0.00235
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00118
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00023

Measured 10d ago against content hash e6197125439d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dont-apply-migrations 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 10d 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/cadence/skills/dont-apply-migrations/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Generate migrations, don't apply them

When schema changes are needed, generate the migration but stop short of applying it.

Do

  • Run the framework's makemigrations / alembic revision --autogenerate / equivalent.
  • Inspect the generated file and clean it up (rename, add data-migration ops, etc.).
  • Commit the migration with the model change in the same PR.

Don't

  • Don't run migrate / alembic upgrade head / equivalent against any database the user shares with other people or production.
  • Don't auto-apply migrations as part of "fixing" a failing test by mutating a shared DB.

Allowed

  • Applying migrations to a clearly local/throwaway database (an eval DB, an integration-test DB, a freshly-spawned local container) when that's the explicit task.

For schema changes touching active production code paths, prefer a lockstep / two-step deploy. Flag it before merging.

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. 10d ago First seen · 26 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A e6197125439d

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dont-apply-migrations is a skill published in the GitHub repository abstractonion/cadence (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 235 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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