sql-explain

sql-explain is a skill for Claude Code from berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices. It costs 16 tokens per session (284 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A SQL query explainer that turns a database query into plain English, describes its tables and steps, and suggests possible improvements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review SQL, understand filtering and joins, estimate rough complexity, and produce rewritten queries or index suggestions.
Why use it?
It helps when a query is hard to understand or may be slow, by highlighting risky joins, missing indexes, and inefficient patterns.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to review SQL, understand filtering and joins, estimate rough complexity, and produce rewritten queries or index suggestions.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices/sql-explain
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.

Any agent
npx skills add berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices --skill sql-explain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for sql-explain

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices/sql-explain/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices/sql-explain)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices/sql-explain"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices/sql-explain/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for sql-explain

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices/sql-explain"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices/sql-explain.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 284 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 $0.00016 $0.00284
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00142
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00028

Measured 6d ago against content hash 342c76d0c7ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sql-explain 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 6d 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.

skills/sql-explain/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

SQL Query Explanation

Query: $ARGUMENTS

  1. If a file path was given, read the file. If a query was pasted, use it directly.

  2. Plain English explanation:

    • What tables are involved?
    • What data is being filtered/joined?
    • What is the final result set?
    • Walk through execution order (FROM → WHERE → GROUP BY → HAVING → SELECT → ORDER → LIMIT)
  3. Potential issues:

    • Missing indexes on WHERE/JOIN columns
    • Cartesian products (missing JOIN condition)
    • SELECT * when specific columns would do
    • Subqueries that could be CTEs or JOINs
    • Functions on indexed columns preventing index use (WHERE LOWER(email) = ...)
  4. Optimization suggestions (with rewritten query):

    • Indexes to add (with CREATE INDEX statement)
    • Query rewrite if applicable
    • For Postgres/MySQL: suggest running EXPLAIN ANALYZE
  5. Estimate complexity: O(n), O(n log n), O(n²) roughly.

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. 6d ago First seen · 35 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 342c76d0c7ab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sql-explain is a skill published in the GitHub repository berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices (10 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 284 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

database-expert

Advanced database design and administration for PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis. Use when designing schemas, optimizing queries, managing database performance, or implementing data patterns.

travisjneuman/.claude · 36 tokens

generic-fullstack-feature-developer

Guide feature development for full-stack applications with architecture focus. Covers Next.js App Router patterns, NestJS backend services, database models, data workflows, and seamless integration. Use when adding new features, refactoring existing code, or planning major changes.

travisjneuman/.claude · 56 tokens

activerecord

This skill should be used when the user asks to "write a migration", "add a column", "add column to table", "create an index", "add a foreign key", "set up associations", "fix N+1 queries", "optimize queries", "add validations", "create callbacks", "use eager loading", or mentions ActiveRecord, belongsto, hasmany…

hoblin/claude-ruby-marketplace · 180 tokens

postgresql-table-design

Design a PostgreSQL-specific schema. Covers best-practices, data types, indexing, constraints, performance patterns, and advanced features.

chidekina/aria-superpowers · 31 tokens

prompt-master

Generates optimized prompts for AI tools. Activates only when the user explicitly asks to write, fix, improve, or adapt a prompt for a specific AI tool (LLM, Cursor, Midjourney, image AI, video AI, coding agents, etc.). Does not activate for general conversation, coding tasks, document writing, or other…

nidhinjs/prompt-master · 78 tokens

api-canvas

DataCanvas primitive reference — a Tier 3 SQL/analytical workspace for tabular MCP servers, backed by DuckDB. Use when registering tables from upstream APIs, running ad-hoc SQL across them, and exporting results. Covers the acquire → register → query → export flow, per-table TTL, the token-sharing pattern for…

cyanheads/obsidian-mcp-server · 85 tokens