database-schema-design

database-schema-design is a skill for Claude Code from cnfeat/top-pm-skills. It costs 90 tokens per session (3,754 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design and documentation guide for describing a database's entities, tables, relationships, rules, indexes, and common queries.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps model relationships, define table structures and constraints, choose indexes, document access patterns, and prepare database changes.
Why use it?
It helps engineers understand and safely extend the data model instead of treating the database as an unexplained collection of tables.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

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

Good fit It helps model relationships, define table structures and constraints, choose indexes, document access patterns, and prepare database changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/database-schema-design
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-schema-design
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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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,754 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 $0.00090 $0.03754
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.01877
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00751
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00375

Measured 5d ago against content hash 64ddeb8462b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

database-schema-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.

参考skill/pm-claude-skills-main/pm-claude-skills-main/plugins/pm-engineering/skills/database-schema-design/SKILL.md · 365 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 365 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Database Schema Design Skill

Produce a complete database schema design document for a given domain. A schema document is not just a list of tables — it is a record of decisions: what was modelled, how entities relate, which queries the schema is optimised for, and what trade-offs were made.

A good schema design document lets an engineer understand the data model, query it correctly, extend it safely, and write migrations without breaking things.

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not already provided:

  • Domain description — what the system does; what business objects are being modelled
  • Entities and relationships — the main things in the domain and how they relate (e.g. "a User has many Orders; an Order has many OrderItems; an OrderItem references a Product")
  • Expected query patterns — the most important read and write queries (e.g. "fetch all orders for a user, sorted by date"; "look up a product by SKU")
  • Database engine — PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, CockroachDB, etc. — this affects DDL syntax and available types
  • Expected data volume — approximate row counts, growth rate, and any partitioning needs
  • Constraints — any existing conventions, naming standards, or migration constraints to respect

Output Format


Database Schema Design: [Domain / Service Name]

Service: [Name] | Team: [Team name] Author: [Name] | Reviewed by: [Name] Date: [Date] | Database engine: [PostgreSQL X.X / MySQL X.X / etc.] Status: [Draft / Reviewed / Approved]


1. Overview

[2–3 sentences describing the domain being modelled, the scope of this schema, and any key design philosophy (e.g. "this schema prioritises read performance for the customer-facing API over write simplicity", or "designed for eventual migration to multi-tenancy")]

In scope:

  • [Entity or subsystem]
  • [Entity or subsystem]

Out of scope:

  • [e.g. Analytics / reporting tables — separate schema]
  • [e.g. Audit log tables — covered in separate design doc]

Read the full file on GitHub · 365 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 · 365 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 64ddeb8462b9

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database-schema-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository cnfeat/top-pm-skills (48 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 3,754 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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