cloud-sql-sqlserver-lifecycle

Instructions and scripts for managing the backup and recovery lifecycle of Google Cloud SQL for SQL Server, a managed Microsoft SQL Server database service. They cover backups, restores, and cloning database instances for testing or migration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to create or restore backups and clone an existing Cloud SQL instance, including cloning it from a chosen point in time. Run the supplied Node.js scripts with the relevant project, instance, and recovery parameters.
Why use it?
They provide repeatable ways to protect database data and create safe copies without manually performing each operation. The scripts also describe how to wait for long-running Cloud SQL operations to finish.

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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/gemini-cli-extensions/cloud-sql-sqlserver/cloud-sql-sqlserver-lifecycle
Any agent
npx skills add gemini-cli-extensions/cloud-sql-sqlserver --skill cloud-sql-sqlserver-lifecycle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/cloud-sql-sqlserver

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,066 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00042 $0.01066
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00533
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00107

Measured yesterday against content hash aa0ee2410525, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cloud-sql-sqlserver-lifecycle 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (scripts/clone_instance.js, scripts/create_backup.js, scripts/get_instance.js, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to cloud-sql-mysql-lifecycle — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/cloud-sql-sqlserver-lifecycle/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Usage

All scripts can be executed using Node.js. Replace <param_name> and <param_value> with actual values.

Bash: node <skill_dir>/scripts/<script_name>.js '{"<param_name>": "<param_value>"}'

PowerShell: node <skill_dir>/scripts/<script_name>.js '{\"<param_name>\": \"<param_value>\"}'

Note: The scripts automatically load the environment variables from various .env files. Do not ask the user to set vars unless skill executions fails due to env var absence.

Scripts

clone_instance

Clone an existing Cloud SQL instance into a new instance. The clone can be a direct copy of the source instance, or a point-in-time-recovery (PITR) clone from a specific timestamp. The call returns a Cloud SQL Operation object. Call wait_for_operation tool after this, make sure to use multiplier as 4 to poll the opertation status till it is marked DONE.

Parameters
Name Type Description Required Default
project string The GCP project ID. This is pre-configured; do not ask for it unless the user explicitly provides a different one. No
sourceInstanceName string The name of the instance to be cloned. Yes
destinationInstanceName string The name of the new instance that will be created by cloning the source instance. Yes
pointInTime string The timestamp in RFC 3339 format to which the source instance should be cloned. No
preferredZone string The preferred zone for the new instance. No
preferredSecondaryZone string The preferred secondary zone for the new instance. No

create_backup

Creates a backup on a Cloud SQL instance.

Parameters
Name Type Description Required Default
project string The GCP project ID. This is pre-configured; do not ask for it unless the user explicitly provides a different one. No
instance string Cloud SQL instance ID. This does not include the project ID. Yes
location string Location of the backup run. No
backup_description string The description of this backup run. No

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 114 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A aa0ee2410525

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cloud-sql-sqlserver-lifecycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository gemini-cli-extensions/cloud-sql-sqlserver (7 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,066 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to cloud-sql-mysql-lifecycle, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.