symfony:doctrine-events

symfony:doctrine-events is a skill for Claude Code from dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony. It costs 35 tokens per session (418 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for responding to Doctrine entity lifecycle events in Symfony, a PHP web framework, using attributes and event handlers. Doctrine is the database-mapping tool that tracks changes to application objects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for actions triggered when database entities are created, updated, or deleted, such as setting timestamps, making slugs, indexing searches, or sending notifications.
Why use it?
It helps choose the right kind of event handler and avoids common ORM 3 mistakes, such as flushing during an event or changing unsupported fields.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the superpowers-symfony plugin — 44 skills, 13 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it for actions triggered when database entities are created, updated, or deleted, such as setting timestamps, making slugs, indexing searches, or sending notifications.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony --skill doctrine-events
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
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Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00209
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured 10d ago against content hash fde0a1ff3c8a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

symfony:doctrine-events 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.

skills/doctrine-events/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Doctrine Events (Symfony)

Use when

  • You need side effects on entity persistence (timestamps, slugs, search indexing, notifications).
  • Migrating an EventSubscriberInterface Doctrine subscriber to ORM 3.
  • Choosing between lifecycle callbacks, entity listeners, and global lifecycle listeners.

Default workflow

  1. Pick the narrowest mechanism: callback (one entity, no deps) → entity listener (one entity, needs services) → lifecycle listener (cross-cutting, all entities).
  2. Wire it with attributes (#[ORM\HasLifecycleCallbacks], #[AsEntityListener], #[AsDoctrineListener]).
  3. Type the event argument by its per-event class (PostPersistEventArgs, PreUpdateEventArgs, …).
  4. Verify the side effect fires with a targeted functional test against a real DB.

Guardrails

  • ORM 3.0 removed EventSubscriberInterface Doctrine subscribers — never reintroduce them.
  • Type-check the entity early in a global lifecycle listener (it fires for every entity).
  • Never call flush() inside a Doctrine event handler — it corrupts the in-flight unit of work.
  • preUpdate is restricted: change fields only via $args->setNewValue(), never touch associations.

Progressive disclosure

  • Use this file for execution posture and risk controls.
  • Open reference.md for the three mechanisms, the event-args matrix, and migration from subscribers.

Output contract

  • Listener/callback class with the correct attribute.
  • Justification for the chosen mechanism.
  • Validation outcomes (test that the side effect fired).

References

  • reference.md
  • docs/complexity-tiers.md
Files

What ships with it

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Changes

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symfony:doctrine-events is a skill published in the GitHub repository dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony (210 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 418 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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