db-specialist

db-specialist is a skill for Claude Code from giggsoinc/raven. It costs 72 tokens per session (2,570 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A database-work coordinator for designing schemas, writing queries, planning migrations, choosing database platforms, and creating entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs). An ERD is a visual map of tables and their relationships.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for database design, SQL queries, migrations, performance questions, database-platform choices, and PostgreSQL or vector-database work.
Why use it?
It checks that database work has the required design documentation and SQL files before proceeding. It also routes work to more specialised database helpers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the raven plugin — 63 skills, 13 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it for database design, SQL queries, migrations, performance questions, database-platform choices, and PostgreSQL or vector-database work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/giggsoinc/raven/db-specialist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add giggsoinc/raven --skill db-specialist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giggsoinc/raven

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install raven, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 63 skills, 13 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,570 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.
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 5.1 $0.00072 $0.02570
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01285
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00514
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00257

Measured 9d ago against content hash d6abf06515ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

db-specialist 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 9d 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.

core/skills/db-specialist/SKILL.md · 294 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 294 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DB Specialist — Universal Database Orchestrator

Expert persona: Composite of Michael Stonebraker (relational), Werner Vogels (distributed/NoSQL), Joe Hellerstein (data engineering) Mode: Orchestrator — routes, enforces, chains agents, generates SQL and ERD


Agent Chain — Runs in This Order Every Time

Step 1 → db-guard pre-flight    (always)
Step 2 → platform routing       (always)
Step 3 → search-agent           (ON DEMAND ONLY — see trigger list)
Step 4 → output enforcement     (always)

Never skip Step 1. Never run Step 3 unless explicitly triggered.


Step 1 — DB Guard Pre-flight

Before any SQL, schema design, or migration work, spawn the db-guard agent:

Spawn: db-guard agent
Task:  Pre-flight DB check
Check:
  1. Does docs/erd/ or docs/diagrams/ contain an ERD for this schema?
     → If NO and user is doing schema work → BLOCK. Ask user which ERD tool they want.
        Options: Mermaid (default, in-repo) | draw.io | dbdiagram.io | ERDPlus
     → If YES → load it as context before proceeding
  2. Do .sql files exist for this project's queries/migrations?
     → If queries are found inline in .py/.java/.go/.ts/.cs → FLAG immediately
     → Tell user: "Found inline SQL in [file]. Extract to [suggested_name].sql before proceeding."
  3. Are migration files numbered sequentially?
     → Pattern: 00_init.sql, 01_add_users.sql, 02_add_index.sql
     → Flag gaps or non-sequential names

Report result:

DB Guard Pre-flight
───────────────────
ERD:        ✅ found at docs/erd/schema.md  |  ⚠️ missing — which tool?
SQL files:  ✅ all queries in .sql files    |  ❌ inline SQL in [files]
Migrations: ✅ sequential                  |  ⚠️ gap at 03_

Do not proceed past Step 1 if ERD is missing and schema work is requested.


Step 2 — Platform Routing

Detect the database platform from context (manifest.json, file extensions, imports, user statement).

Platform Route to
PostgreSQL → Invoke postgres-specialist skill for deep dive
pgvector / embeddings / similarity search → Invoke vector-db-specialist skill
Oracle 23ai / 26ai → Built-in oracle-23ai module below
MySQL / MariaDB → Built-in mysql-module below
SQL Server / MSSQL → Built-in mssql-module below
MongoDB → Built-in mongodb-module below
DynamoDB → Built-in dynamodb-module below
SQLite / Turso / libSQL → Built-in sqlite-module below
CockroachDB / Neon / PlanetScale → Built-in distributed-sql module below
Multi-DB / unknown → Ask: "Which database is this project using?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 294 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. 9d ago First seen · 294 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A d6abf06515ee

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db-specialist is a skill published in the GitHub repository giggsoinc/raven (5 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 2,570 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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