tanstack-db

A React-focused guide for TanStack DB, a local-first data and reactivity layer that keeps interface data responsive and can support optimistic changes and synchronization. It also covers integrations such as Dexie.js and PGLite.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or debugging React code with TanStack DB, including live-query hooks, optimistic mutations, collections, schemas, synchronization modes, and route preloading.
Why use it?
It helps avoid incorrect live queries, missing React dependencies, invalid client-side schemas, and mistakes when loading or conditionally disabling data queries.

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/fellipeutaka/leon/tanstack-db
Any agent
npx skills add fellipeutaka/leon --skill tanstack-db
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fellipeutaka/leon

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 494 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 $0.00050 $0.00494
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00247
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00049

Measured 2d ago against content hash 932ba091e626, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tanstack-db 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 2d 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/tanstack-db/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

TanStack DB (React)

Quick Start

TanStack DB is a local-first database and reactivity layer. For React applications, it provides useLiveQuery and optimistic mutations with sub-millisecond updates powered by d2ts.

Core Guidelines

  1. Schemas Validate Client State: Schemas are StandardSchema-compatible (Zod, Valibot, etc.). They validate client mutations, not server data. TInput must be a superset of TOutput for updates to work correctly.
  2. Dependency Arrays: All query hooks require dependency arrays as the last argument, identical to useEffect. Include all external values. Omit to run on every render, or use [] for static queries.
  3. Conditional Queries: To disable a query, return undefined or null from the callback.
  4. Router Preloading: Preload data in your route loader (await collection.preload()), then consume it with useLiveQuery in the component.

Advanced Topics

For deep dives into specific areas, consult the following references:

  • Collections & Schemas: See references/core-concepts.md for collection types, sync modes (eager, on-demand, progressive), and schema constraints.
  • Queries & Hooks: See references/live-queries.md for the fluent SQL-like API, expression functions, useLiveSuspenseQuery, and query composition patterns.
  • Mutations & Transactions: See references/mutations.md for optimistic updates, mutation merging, temporary ID handling, and direct QueryCollection writes.
  • Error Handling: See references/error-handling.md for specific error types (e.g., DuplicateKeyError, SchemaValidationError) and transaction states.
  • Community Integrations: See references/community-integrations.md for Dexie.js (IndexedDB) and PGLite (WASM PostgreSQL + Drizzle ORM) adapters.
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. 2d ago First seen · 27 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 932ba091e626

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tanstack-db is a skill published in the GitHub repository fellipeutaka/leon (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 494 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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