capture-postgres-create

capture-postgres-create is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from estuary/agent-skills. It costs 75 tokens per session (2,445 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup workflow for continuously copying changes from PostgreSQL databases into Estuary collections. PostgreSQL is a widely used relational database, and change data capture records updates as they happen.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a PostgreSQL change capture, configure replication access, and connect self-hosted or cloud PostgreSQL databases to Estuary.
Why use it?
It brings together the connection and replication settings needed for different PostgreSQL services, including hosted versions such as Amazon RDS, Supabase, and Neon.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/estuary/agent-skills/capture-postgres-create
Any agent
npx skills add estuary/agent-skills --skill capture-postgres-create
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/estuary/agent-skills

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 2,445 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00075 $0.02445
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01222
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00489
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00245

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7780440cfc71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

capture-postgres-create 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 3d 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/capture-postgres-create/SKILL.md · 286 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 286 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create PostgreSQL Capture

Create a PostgreSQL CDC capture that continuously streams changes from Postgres tables into Estuary collections.

Applies to: source-postgres, source-amazon-aurora-postgres, source-amazon-rds-postgres, source-google-cloud-sql-postgres, source-supabase-postgres, source-neon-postgres

Step 0: Load Connector Documentation

Before proceeding, fetch the official connector docs for prerequisites, config reference, and cloud-specific setup.

Always load the main page: https://docs.estuary.dev/reference/Connectors/capture-connectors/PostgreSQL/

Then load the variant subpage based on the user's Postgres type:

Variant Docs URL
Self-hosted / Vanilla Main page covers this
Amazon Aurora Main page covers this
Azure Database Main page covers this
Amazon RDS https://docs.estuary.dev/reference/Connectors/capture-connectors/PostgreSQL/amazon-rds-postgres/
Google Cloud SQL https://docs.estuary.dev/reference/Connectors/capture-connectors/PostgreSQL/google-cloud-sql-postgres/
Supabase https://docs.estuary.dev/reference/Connectors/capture-connectors/PostgreSQL/Supabase/
Neon https://docs.estuary.dev/reference/Connectors/capture-connectors/PostgreSQL/neon-postgres/

Use WebFetch to load these pages. Together they cover:

  • Prerequisites (WAL level, user creation, publication setup, watermarks table)
  • Full config property reference
  • Cloud-specific setup instructions
  • SSH tunnel configuration
  • Network access / IP allowlisting

This skill provides the flowctl workflow and troubleshooting that docs don't cover.

Step 1: Gather Requirements

Before writing any YAML, ask the user:

  1. Postgres variant? — Vanilla, Amazon RDS, Aurora, Google Cloud SQL, Supabase, Neon
  2. Network path? — Direct connection (cloud-hosted with IP allowlist), SSH tunnel (private network/on-prem), Private Link (AWS/Azure/GCP), or ngrok (local dev)
  3. Non-default data plane? — Most users use the default. Ask if they need a non-default data plane.
  4. Tables to capture? — All standard tables in the publication is the default. A specific subset, partitioned tables (must capture child partitions, not the parent), views (require batch connector instead of CDC), or tables not yet in the publication all require additional configuration.
  5. History mode? — Standard CDC (false) or full event history (true)

Read the full file on GitHub · 286 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. 3d ago First seen · 286 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 7780440cfc71

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capture-postgres-create is a skill published in the GitHub repository estuary/agent-skills (7 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 2,445 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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