data-model-selector

data-model-selector is a skill for Claude Code from bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills. It costs 223 tokens per session (8,294 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC-BY-SA-4.0.

A guide for choosing between relational, document, and graph data models. A relational model stores structured tables, a document model stores self-contained records, and a graph model focuses on connections between entities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when comparing systems such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB, deciding whether relationships need a graph database, or selecting a model for a new application.
Why use it?
It helps match the way data is stored to its relationships and common queries. This can prevent awkward database designs and difficult future changes.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the designing-data-intensive-applications plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when comparing systems such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB, deciding whether relationships need a graph database, or selecting a model for a new application.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills/data-model-selector
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 bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills --skill data-model-selector
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install designing-data-intensive-applications, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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 data-model-selector

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills/data-model-selector"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills/data-model-selector.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 223 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,294 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 unknown 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 $0.00223 $0.08294
Opus 5 $0.00112 $0.04147
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.01659
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00829

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4a267dee7a28, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

data-model-selector 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 7d 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.

books/designing-data-intensive-applications/skills/data-model-selector/SKILL.md · 592 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0

The repository is licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 7d ago First seen · 592 lines · 223 tokens per session scan A 4a267dee7a28

Subscribe to this mod's changes

data-model-selector is a skill published in the GitHub repository bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills (35 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0. It adds 223 tokens to every session and 8,294 once invoked, about $0.0011 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 2026-08-30.

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