data-model

A workflow that designs a database structure and produces forward and rollback SQL migrations, which are scripts for applying and undoing database changes. It stages those migrations until the feature is ready to be implemented.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps define tables and persistence choices, create shippable migration files, support new or existing databases, and check for differences between the design and the current database setup.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of applying an unfinished database design to a live project and checks the design against the project’s existing architecture and schema.

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/genkovich/sdd/data-model
Any agent
npx skills add genkovich/sdd --skill data-model
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/genkovich/sdd

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 233 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,925 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 $0.00233 $0.03925
Opus 5 $0.00117 $0.01962
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.00785
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00392

Measured 2d ago against content hash 372dee7350bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

data-model 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/data-model/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: data-model

End-to-end runner for the persistence cut: data model + migrations + drift check in one pass. Greenfield-first by default; brownfield delta as --mode brownfield. Output is shippable — full .up.sql + .down.sql, not a plan — but staged under docs/features/<slug>/migrations/, never written into the live migrations/ tree. implement promotes the staged pair into migrations/ (with the real sequence number / timestamp) only when the feature is actually being built. This is deliberate: data-model is a design stage four steps before implement, so a stray migrate up (a teammate's loop, CI, a deploy) must not be able to apply a half-designed schema to a real database. (Same staging discipline the drift fixes already use under _drift/.)

Stack-agnostic by design — it imposes no DB philosophy and writes no rules file. data-model derives the DB + migration conventions from the architecturearchitecture-map.md (the migration tool/naming survey recorded) + the sad.md persistence decisions (§4 strategy / §5 building blocks / §8 crosscutting) + the Accepted ADRs — and follows them; the live migrations/ + schema corroborate and fill anything the architecture left implicit. On a greenfield repo with no architecture signal, it confirms each schema choice with the user (Socratic) instead of defaulting to a house style. What it applies regardless of stack is migration safety (staging, reversibility, FK indexes, zero-downtime decomposition, no-PII) — never a stance on updated_at vs not, hard vs soft delete, UUID vs sequence, or whether CHECK constraints are allowed. The size matrix (→ ../_shared/size-matrix.md) governs how much you produce; the aggregate-roots dialogue uses ../_shared/ask-style.md.

data-model.md prose follows artifact_language — SQL, table/column identifiers, headings and frontmatter stay English → ../_shared/artifact-language.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 105 lines · 233 tokens per session scan A 372dee7350bc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

data-model is a skill published in the GitHub repository genkovich/sdd (118 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 233 tokens to every session and 3,925 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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