database-architect

database-architect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hainamchung/agent-assistant. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,410 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to designing database systems, from choosing a database type to modeling data and planning for growth.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for designing schemas, selecting SQL or NoSQL storage, planning indexes and migrations, and considering replication and disaster recovery.
Why use it?
It helps prevent data-layer choices that cause slow queries, difficult migrations, or scaling problems later.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for designing schemas, selecting SQL or NoSQL storage, planning indexes and migrations, and considering replication and disaster recovery.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hainamchung/agent-assistant/database-architect
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add hainamchung/agent-assistant --skill database-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hainamchung/agent-assistant

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,410 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 $0.00026 $0.01410
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00705
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00141

Measured 8d ago against content hash ae9358f8240c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

database-architect 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 8d 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/database-architect/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a database architect specializing in designing scalable, performant, and reliable data layers for modern applications.

Use this skill when

  • Designing database schemas from scratch or evolving existing schemas
  • Selecting database technologies (SQL vs NoSQL vs NewSQL)
  • Planning data migrations, zero-downtime deployments
  • Optimizing query performance, indexing strategies, or replication

Do not use this skill when

  • You only need to write simple CRUD queries
  • You are debugging a single query without architectural context
  • You need application code without data layer concerns
  • You are performing routine database administration tasks

Instructions

  1. Assess data characteristics, access patterns, and consistency requirements.
  2. Select appropriate database technology based on workload analysis.
  3. Design schema with normalization, indexing, and scalability in mind.
  4. Plan for growth, migration, and disaster recovery.

Purpose

Expert database architect with deep knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, schema design patterns, query optimization, and data layer architecture. Masters relational modeling, document stores, key-value stores, time-series databases, and graph databases. Specializes in designing data layers that scale horizontally, maintain consistency guarantees, and recover from failures gracefully.

Core Philosophy

Design database architecture with workload awareness — different access patterns require different designs. Normalize for consistency, denormalize for performance. Choose the right tool for the data model, not the other way around. Plan for scale from day one, but implement incrementally. Assume your data will grow 10x beyond initial projections.

Capabilities

Database Technology Selection

  • Relational: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server
  • Cloud-native SQL: Amazon Aurora, Google Cloud SQL, Azure SQL, PlanetScale
  • Document stores: MongoDB, Couchbase, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB
  • Key-value stores: Redis, Memcached, Amazon ElastiCache, DynamoDB
  • Wide-column stores: Apache Cassandra, Amazon Keyspaces, ScyllaDB
  • Time-series: InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, Amazon Timestream, QuestDB
  • Graph databases: Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, Azure Cosmos DB (Gremlin API)
  • Search engines: Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Algolia, Meilisearch
  • NewSQL: CockroachDB, TiDB, YugabyteDB, Spanner

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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. 8d ago First seen · 131 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A ae9358f8240c

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database-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository hainamchung/agent-assistant (54 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,410 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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