database-design

database-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,339 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to designing databases: how to organize tables, represent relationships, make queries faster, and change schemas safely. A schema is the structure that defines how data is stored.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design tables and relationships, choose indexes, review normalization, plan migrations, compare SQL and NoSQL, and optimize database structure.
Why use it?
It helps prevent duplicated or inconsistent data and addresses slow queries, difficult migrations, and poorly modeled relationships.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to design tables and relationships, choose indexes, review normalization, plan migrations, compare SQL and NoSQL, and optimize database structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit/database-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit --skill database-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,339 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 $0.00036 $0.01339
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00669
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00134

Measured 5d ago against content hash ba8c0db06395, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

database-design 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 5d 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/database-design/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Database Design

"Data is the foundation; a well-designed schema is the bedrock upon which reliable systems are built."

When to Use

  • Designing new database schemas or tables
  • Reviewing existing data models for normalization issues
  • Planning indexing strategies for query performance
  • Modeling relationships between entities
  • Writing or reviewing migration scripts
  • Choosing between SQL and NoSQL for a use case
  • Optimizing slow queries through schema changes

Normalization Principles

First Normal Form (1NF)

  • Every column contains atomic (indivisible) values
  • No repeating groups or arrays stored in a single column
  • Each row is uniquely identifiable via a primary key

Second Normal Form (2NF)

  • Must satisfy 1NF
  • Every non-key column depends on the entire primary key, not just part of it
  • Eliminate partial dependencies in composite key tables

Third Normal Form (3NF)

  • Must satisfy 2NF
  • No transitive dependencies: non-key columns must not depend on other non-key columns
  • Example violation: storing city and zip_code together when city is determined by zip

When to Denormalize

  • Read-heavy workloads where join performance is critical
  • Reporting tables and materialized views
  • Caching layers (e.g., Redis-backed denormalized snapshots)
  • Always document why denormalization was chosen and maintain consistency mechanisms

Primary Key Strategies

Auto-increment IDs

  • Simple and sequential; good for internal-only references
  • Can leak information about record count and creation rate
  • Problematic in distributed systems (conflicts across nodes)

UUIDs (v4)

  • Globally unique without coordination
  • Poor index locality due to randomness (fragmented B-trees)
  • Use UUIDv7 (time-ordered) for better index performance

ULIDs / Snowflake IDs

  • Time-sortable and globally unique
  • Better B-tree locality than UUIDv4
  • Preferred for distributed systems needing ordered IDs

Natural Keys

  • Use when a domain-meaningful unique value exists (e.g., ISO country codes)
  • Immutable natural keys are safe; mutable ones cause cascading update pain

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 150 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A ba8c0db06395

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database-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit (10 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,339 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 2026-09-03.

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