database-query-performance

database-query-performance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard. It costs 42 tokens per session (321 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to diagnosing slow database queries using their actual query shape and execution plan. An execution plan shows how the database intends to find and sort the requested data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect query plans, design indexes for filters and joins, investigate ORM-generated SQL, and fix deep scans, pagination issues, or N+1 queries.
Why use it?
It helps replace guesswork with evidence and avoids adding indexes that do not fix the real bottleneck.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to inspect query plans, design indexes for filters and joins, investigate ORM-generated SQL, and fix deep scans, pagination issues, or N+1 queries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hoangnguyen0403/agent-skills-standard/database-query-performance
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.

Any agent
npx skills add HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard --skill database-query-performance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 321 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00042 $0.00321
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00161
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00032

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2b036001cef9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

database-query-performance 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/database-query-performance/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

Database Query Performance

Priority: P0 (CRITICAL)

Slow query work starts with the query shape and evidence, not with random index creation.

Rules

  • Capture the exact query, parameters, and access path.
  • Run explain or equivalent plan inspection before adding indexes.
  • Match indexes to filter, join, sort, and coverage needs.
  • Fix N+1 at the query pattern or loading strategy, not by caching first.

Verify

  • Explain plan was reviewed.
  • Proposed index maps to a named query path.
  • Write cost of the index is acceptable.
  • Pagination or batch loading avoids deep scans or N+1 loops.

Anti-Patterns

  • No blind indexes: every index needs a query owner.
  • No cache-first latency fix: fix query shape before hiding it.
  • No ORM opacity: inspect generated SQL when the ORM is involved.

References

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 8d ago First seen · 47 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 2b036001cef9

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database-query-performance is a skill published in the GitHub repository HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard (565 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 321 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.