database

A workflow for adding database services such as PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL, or MongoDB to a Railway application platform project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add or connect a database, wait for its deployment, and pass its connection settings to an application through environment variables.
Why use it?
It checks for an existing database before creating another one and helps avoid missing configuration when connecting a database to an application.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/artivilla/agents-config/database
Any agent
npx skills add artivilla/agents-config --skill database
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/artivilla/agents-config

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,909 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 $0.00072 $0.01909
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00955
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00382
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00191

Measured 2d ago against content hash f67e2a8cf0c8, 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/railway-api.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/SKILL.md · 285 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 285 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Database

Add official Railway database services. These are maintained templates with pre-configured volumes, networking, and connection variables.

For non-database templates, see the templates skill.

When to Use

  • User asks to "add a database", "add Postgres", "add Redis", etc.
  • User needs a database for their application
  • User asks about connecting to a database
  • User says "add postgres and connect to my server"
  • User says "wire up the database"

Decision Flow

ALWAYS check for existing databases FIRST before creating.

User mentions database
        │
  Check existing DBs first
  (query env config for source.image)
        │
   ┌────┴────┐
 Exists    Doesn't exist
    │           │
    │      Create database
    │      (CLI or API)
    │           │
    │      Wait for deployment
    │           │
    └─────┬─────┘
          │
    User wants to
    connect service?
          │
    ┌─────┴─────┐
   Yes         No
    │           │
Wire vars    Done +
via env     suggest wiring
skill

Check for Existing Databases

Before creating a database, check if one already exists.

For full environment config structure, see environment-config.md.

railway status --json

Then query environment config and check source.image for each service:

query environmentConfig($environmentId: String!) {
  environment(id: $environmentId) {
    config(decryptVariables: false)
  }
}

The config.services object contains each service's configuration. Check source.image for:

  • ghcr.io/railway/postgres* or postgres:* → Postgres
  • ghcr.io/railway/redis* or redis:* → Redis
  • ghcr.io/railway/mysql* or mysql:* → MySQL
  • ghcr.io/railway/mongo* or mongo:* → MongoDB

Available Databases

Database Template Code
PostgreSQL postgres
Redis redis
MySQL mysql
MongoDB mongodb

Prerequisites

Get project context:

railway status --json

Read the full file on GitHub · 285 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 2d ago First seen · 285 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A f67e2a8cf0c8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

database is a skill published in the GitHub repository artivilla/agents-config (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,909 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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