Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add bcastelino/agent-skills-kit --skill postgres-best-practicesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bcastelino/agent-skills-kitWrote this? Show the measurements
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[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bcastelino/agent-skills-kit/postgres-best-practices)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bcastelino/agent-skills-kit/postgres-best-practices"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bcastelino/agent-skills-kit/postgres-best-practices/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00038 | $0.00410 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00205 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00082 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00041 |
Grade A, and why
postgres-best-practices 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 8d 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.
This is a copy
97% identical to supabase-postgres-best-practices — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
What it actually says
Supabase Postgres Best Practices
Comprehensive performance optimization guide for Postgres, maintained by Supabase. Contains rules across 8 categories, prioritized by impact to guide automated query optimization and schema design.
When to Apply
Reference these guidelines when:
- Writing SQL queries or designing schemas
- Implementing indexes or query optimization
- Reviewing database performance issues
- Configuring connection pooling or scaling
- Optimizing for Postgres-specific features
- Working with Row-Level Security (RLS)
Rule Categories by Priority
| Priority | Category | Impact | Prefix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Query Performance | CRITICAL | query- |
| 2 | Connection Management | CRITICAL | conn- |
| 3 | Security & RLS | CRITICAL | security- |
| 4 | Schema Design | HIGH | schema- |
| 5 | Concurrency & Locking | MEDIUM-HIGH | lock- |
| 6 | Data Access Patterns | MEDIUM | data- |
| 7 | Monitoring & Diagnostics | LOW-MEDIUM | monitor- |
| 8 | Advanced Features | LOW | advanced- |
How to Use
Read individual rule files for detailed explanations and SQL examples:
rules/query-missing-indexes.md
rules/schema-partial-indexes.md
rules/_sections.md
Each rule file contains:
- Brief explanation of why it matters
- Incorrect SQL example with explanation
- Correct SQL example with explanation
- Optional EXPLAIN output or metrics
- Additional context and references
- Supabase-specific notes (when applicable)
Full Compiled Document
For the complete guide with all rules expanded: AGENTS.md
What ships with it
36 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.
- AGENTS.md 44 KB
- metadata.json 818 B
- README.md 3.1 KB
- rules/_contributing.md 4.0 KB
- rules/_sections.md 1.6 KB
- rules/_template.md 1.0 KB
- rules/advanced-full-text-search.md 1.4 KB
- rules/advanced-jsonb-indexing.md 1.4 KB
- rules/conn-idle-timeout.md 1.3 KB
- rules/conn-limits.md 1.3 KB
- rules/conn-pooling.md 1.3 KB
- rules/conn-prepared-statements.md 1.5 KB
- rules/data-batch-inserts.md 1.3 KB
- rules/data-n-plus-one.md 1.3 KB
- rules/data-pagination.md 1.3 KB
- rules/data-upsert.md 1.4 KB
- rules/lock-advisory.md 1.5 KB
- rules/lock-deadlock-prevention.md 1.8 KB
- rules/lock-short-transactions.md 1.3 KB
- rules/lock-skip-locked.md 1.3 KB
- rules/monitor-explain-analyze.md 1.4 KB
- rules/monitor-pg-stat-statements.md 1.4 KB
- rules/monitor-vacuum-analyze.md 1.5 KB
- rules/query-composite-indexes.md 1.4 KB
- rules/query-covering-indexes.md 1.3 KB
- rules/query-index-types.md 1.4 KB
- rules/query-missing-indexes.md 1.2 KB
- rules/query-partial-indexes.md 1.3 KB
- rules/schema-data-types.md 1.4 KB
- rules/schema-foreign-key-indexes.md 1.6 KB
- rules/schema-lowercase-identifiers.md 1.7 KB
- rules/schema-partitioning.md 1.5 KB
- rules/schema-primary-keys.md 1.8 KB
- rules/security-privileges.md 1.5 KB
- rules/security-rls-basics.md 1.3 KB
- rules/security-rls-performance.md 1.5 KB
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 54 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A c1a6a1da3092
postgres-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository bcastelino/agent-skills-kit (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 410 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to supabase-postgres-best-practices, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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