database-migration-plan

database-migration-plan is a skill for Claude Code from cnfeat/top-pm-skills. It costs 103 tokens per session (4,053 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for changing a database schema while keeping an application available and its data consistent.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps plan expand-and-contract migrations, data backfills, application changes, deployment coordination, and rollback procedures.
Why use it?
It breaks a schema change into steps that can be checked and rolled back, reducing the risk of downtime or broken deployments.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pm-engineering plugin — 37 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps plan expand-and-contract migrations, data backfills, application changes, deployment coordination, and rollback procedures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/database-migration-plan
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 cnfeat/top-pm-skills --skill database-migration-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cnfeat/top-pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,053 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 $0.00103 $0.04053
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.02027
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00811
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00405

Measured 5d ago against content hash 49256df9feb7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

database-migration-plan 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.

参考skill/pm-claude-skills-main/pm-claude-skills-main/plugins/pm-engineering/skills/database-migration-plan/SKILL.md · 463 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 463 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Database Migration Plan Skill

Produce a complete, safe database migration plan for a schema change. A migration plan is not just the SQL — it is a coordinated sequence of steps that ensures the application stays available, data stays consistent, and every step can be rolled back independently.

The expand/contract pattern is the default approach: expand the schema to support both old and new states, migrate the application, then contract to remove the old state. Never combine schema changes and data backfills in a single migration that runs during deployment.

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not already provided:

  • Current schema state — the DDL or description of the table(s) as they are now
  • Target schema state — the DDL or description of what the table(s) should look like after migration
  • Migration reason — why this change is being made (new feature, performance fix, normalization, compliance)
  • Database engine — PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, CockroachDB, etc.
  • Estimated data volume — approximate number of rows in affected tables
  • Deployment constraints — is any downtime allowed? What is the expected traffic level during migration? Are there multiple app instances running?
  • Rollback window — how long after deploy can the team roll back before the migration becomes irreversible?

Output Format


Database Migration Plan: [Migration Name]

Service: [Name] | Team: [Team name] Author: [Name] | Reviewed by: [Name / DBA] Date: [Date] | Target deploy date: [Date] Database engine: [PostgreSQL X.X / MySQL X.X] Ticket: [JIRA-XXX]


1. Migration Overview

What is changing: [1–2 sentences: the specific schema change — e.g. "Adding a non-nullable organisation_id column to the users table and backfilling it from the accounts table."]

Why: [1–2 sentences: the business or technical reason driving the change.]

Migration type: [Additive only / Additive + backfill / Column rename / Column type change / Table restructure / Index change]

Read the full file on GitHub · 463 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 · 463 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 49256df9feb7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

database-migration-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository cnfeat/top-pm-skills (48 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 4,053 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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