database-performance-debugging

database-performance-debugging is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts. It costs 27 tokens per session (475 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for finding why database queries are slow by reviewing query statistics and execution plans. An execution plan shows how the database intends to find and combine the requested data.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps analyze slow queries, inspect execution plans, optimize indexes, and investigate database performance under load.
Why use it?
It helps locate inefficient queries, missing indexes, and performance regressions that can make an application respond slowly or use too much database capacity.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps analyze slow queries, inspect execution plans, optimize indexes, and investigate database performance under load.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/database-performance-debugging
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill database-performance-debugging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 475 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 5 Mar 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00027 $0.00475
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00237
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00047

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8bcbe80dc3bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

database-performance-debugging 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-schema.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/database-performance-debugging/SKILL.md · 88 lines

What it actually says

Database Performance Debugging

Table of Contents

Overview

Database performance issues directly impact application responsiveness. Debugging focuses on identifying slow queries and optimizing execution plans.

When to Use

  • Slow application response times
  • High database CPU
  • Slow queries identified
  • Performance regression
  • Under load stress

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

-- Enable slow query log (MySQL)
SET GLOBAL slow_query_log = 'ON';
SET GLOBAL long_query_time = 0.5;

-- View slow queries
SHOW GLOBAL STATUS LIKE 'Slow_queries';
SELECT * FROM mysql.slow_log;

-- PostgreSQL slow queries
CREATE EXTENSION pg_stat_statements;
SELECT mean_exec_time, calls, query
FROM pg_stat_statements
ORDER BY mean_exec_time DESC LIMIT 10;

-- SQL Server slow queries
SELECT TOP 10
  execution_count,
  total_elapsed_time,
  statement_text
FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats
ORDER BY total_elapsed_time DESC;

-- Query profiling
EXPLAIN ANALYZE
SELECT * FROM orders WHERE user_id = 123;
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide Contents
Identify Slow Queries Identify Slow Queries
Common Issues & Solutions Common Issues & Solutions
Execution Plan Analysis Execution Plan Analysis
Debugging Process Debugging Process

Best Practices

✅ DO

  • Follow established patterns and conventions
  • Write clean, maintainable code
  • Add appropriate documentation
  • Test thoroughly before deploying

❌ DON'T

  • Skip testing or validation
  • Ignore error handling
  • Hard-code configuration values
Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 88 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 8bcbe80dc3bb

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database-performance-debugging is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (338 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 475 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 2026-09-03.

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