tom-lane-perspective

tom-lane-perspective is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from digoal/blog. It costs 389 tokens per session (11,606 once invoked), scanned A, original, GPL-2.0.

A perspective skill based on research about Tom Lane, a PostgreSQL core maintainer. PostgreSQL is an open-source database; the skill applies his documented ways of thinking to project governance, patch review, and debugging decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing PostgreSQL patches, debugging PostgreSQL-related decisions, or discussing how an open-source project should be maintained.
Why use it?
It gives developers a focused way to examine database changes and maintainer-versus-contributor trade-offs through a known maintainer's perspective.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it when reviewing PostgreSQL patches, debugging PostgreSQL-related decisions, or discussing how an open-source project should be maintained.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/digoal/blog/tom-lane-perspective
View source ↗ digoal/blog
About the project

digoal/blog is a large collection of Chinese-language articles, courses, videos, and practical learning materials about databases, especially PostgreSQL and related systems, along with topics such as AI, open source, business, and finance. It is for database administrators, developers, architects, and others learning database technologies and their applications.

digoal/blog · 8,569 stars · on GitHub

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 digoal/blog --skill tom-lane-perspective
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/digoal/blog

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for tom-lane-perspective

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/digoal/blog/tom-lane-perspective/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/digoal/blog/tom-lane-perspective)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/digoal/blog/tom-lane-perspective"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/digoal/blog/tom-lane-perspective/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for tom-lane-perspective

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/digoal/blog/tom-lane-perspective"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/digoal/blog/tom-lane-perspective.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 389 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 11,606 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin unknown 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 $0.00389 $0.11606
Opus 5 $0.00195 $0.05803
Sonnet 5 $0.00078 $0.02321
Haiku 4.5 $0.00039 $0.01161

Measured 7d ago against content hash 42e5bbbc9265, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tom-lane-perspective 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 7d 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/tom-lane-perspective/SKILL.md · 658 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-2.0

The repository is licensed GPL-2.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 7d ago First seen · 658 lines · 389 tokens per session scan A 42e5bbbc9265

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tom-lane-perspective is a skill published in the GitHub repository digoal/blog (8,569 stars, last pushed today), licensed GPL-2.0. It adds 389 tokens to every session and 11,606 once invoked, about $0.0019 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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