database-safety

database-safety is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from catpilotai/catpilot-ai-guardrails. It costs 75 tokens per session (3,748 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A safety guide for database changes made with SQL or an ORM, a library that lets code work with database records. It requires previews, row counts, transactions, and rollback preparation before changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing database rows or schemas, reviewing migration plans, preparing rollback steps, or checking database code for unsafe operations.
Why use it?
It helps prevent accidental mass updates or deletions, unsafe production migrations, and SQL injection caused by putting user input directly into queries.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Codex; built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it when changing database rows or schemas, reviewing migration plans, preparing rollback steps, or checking database code for unsafe operations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/catpilotai/catpilot-ai-guardrails/database-safety
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 catpilotai/catpilot-ai-guardrails --skill database-safety
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/catpilotai/catpilot-ai-guardrails

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,748 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 $0.00075 $0.03748
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01874
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00750
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00375

Measured 10d ago against content hash 61e696e0ba44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

database-safety 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 10d 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.

src/skills/core/database-safety/SKILL.md · 414 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 414 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Why

Database state is the asset that survives every deploy. Compute can be rebuilt from images in minutes; rows cannot be rebuilt from anywhere except the last backup. Most catastrophic AI-assisted incidents at the database layer follow the same three shapes:

  1. A DELETE or UPDATE runs without a WHERE clause because the model treated "delete the old test rows" as a sentence rather than a query. Every row in the table is touched in one statement and the transaction commits before anyone notices.
  2. A migration runs straight against production with no dry-run, no staging dress rehearsal, no rollback file. The schema change succeeds on the structure but breaks an index, a foreign key, or an application assumption, and the only way back is point-in-time recovery.
  3. A query is built by string-concatenating user input into SQL, producing a working feature that also produces an injection vector the first time an attacker sends a quote character.

These are not language-specific or framework-specific failures. They occur in raw psql, in ORMs, in serverless functions calling RDS, in prisma db push --accept-data-loss, and in manage.py shell one-liners. This skill applies the same six-step protocol the cloud-cli-safety skill applies to infrastructure: never modify state you have not first queried, counted, and shown to the user.

When to apply

Apply this skill before the agent runs, recommends, or commits any of the following:

  • Direct SQL execution against a real database (psql, mysql, sqlcmd, sqlite3, mongo, cloud SQL consoles, JDBC clients, \copy).
  • ORM operations that translate to SQL writes — INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE, UPSERT, BULK INSERT, COPY FROM.
  • Schema operations — CREATE, ALTER, DROP, TRUNCATE, RENAME, GRANT, REVOKE.
  • Migration commands — alembic upgrade, prisma migrate, django migrate, rake db:migrate, knex migrate:latest, flyway migrate, liquibase update, goose up, dbmate up, sqlx migrate run.
  • Anywhere a query string is being built — raw SQL files, cursor.execute, db.query, Sequelize.query, EntityManager.createNativeQuery, template literals tagged as `sql``.
  • Bulk data operations against any environment named prod, production, live, customer, or sharing a connection string with one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 414 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. 10d ago First seen · 414 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 61e696e0ba44

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database-safety is a skill published in the GitHub repository catpilotai/catpilot-ai-guardrails (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 3,748 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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