db

A database query helper for listing schemas and tables, checking a table's columns, or running SQL. It works with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and MongoDB.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find database objects, understand table structure, count or retrieve records, and investigate project data. It also helps locate the correct SQLite database file from project configuration.
Why use it?
It lets an agent inspect stored data without opening an interactive database session. It also adds safeguards against destructive SQL and exposing credentials.

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/brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap/db
Any agent
npx skills add brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap --skill db
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 327 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 $0.00035 $0.00327
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00163
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00033

Measured 2d ago against content hash 07958d6ef1f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

db 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.

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.

.claude/skills/db/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

DB Skill

Query the database in non-interactive mode.

Usage

/db schemas              # List available schemas
/db tables               # List all tables
/db describe users       # Describe the users table
/db SELECT COUNT(*) FROM orders  # Run raw SQL

Instructions

Determine action from $ARGUMENTS:

Argument Action
schemas {{DB_LIST_SCHEMAS_CMD}}
tables {{DB_LIST_TABLES_CMD}}
describe <table> {{DB_DESCRIBE_CMD}} <table>
<raw-sql> {{DB_QUERY_CMD}} "<sql>"

⚠️ Always use non-interactive mode:

  • PostgreSQL: psql -c "SQL" | cat
  • MySQL: mysql -e "SQL" | cat
  • SQLite: sqlite3 db.sqlite "SQL"
  • MongoDB: mongosh --eval "db.collection.find()" --quiet

Rules:

  • Read claude/build.md for the DB connection string and credentials
  • NEVER run destructive SQL (DROP, TRUNCATE, DELETE without WHERE) without explicit user confirmation
  • NEVER commit credentials — always use env var references
  • For $DB_PATH (SQLite): check project config files for the actual path
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 · 41 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 07958d6ef1f7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

db is a skill published in the GitHub repository brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 327 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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