review-migration

review-migration is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from igmarin/rails-agent-skills. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,043 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for reviewing Rails database migrations, which change tables, columns, indexes, or constraints in a deployed application.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or review column changes, indexes, constraints, backfills, zero-downtime deployments, and safe removal of database fields.
Why use it?
It helps avoid long locks, unsafe schema changes, incomplete backfills, and deployment or rollback problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan or review column changes, indexes, constraints, backfills, zero-downtime deployments, and safe removal of database fields.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/igmarin/rails-agent-skills/review-migration
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 igmarin/rails-agent-skills --skill review-migration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/igmarin/rails-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,043 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 $0.00040 $0.01043
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00522
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00209
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00104

Measured 11d ago against content hash a7bbed189a64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-migration 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 11d 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/review-migration/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review Migration

Use this skill when schema changes must be safe in real environments.

HARD-GATE

DO NOT combine schema change and data backfill in one migration.
DO NOT add NOT NULL on a column that hasn't been fully backfilled.
DO NOT drop columns before all code references are removed.

Core Process

  1. Identify the database and table-size risk.
  2. Separate schema changes from data backfills.
  3. Check lock behavior for indexes, constraints, defaults, and rewrites.
  4. Plan deployment order between app code and migration code.
  5. Plan rollback or forward-fix strategy.

If the project uses strong_migrations, follow it. If it does not, apply the same safety rules manually.

Safe Patterns and Common Mistakes

Operation Safe Pattern Common Mistake Why It Fails
Add column Nullable first, backfill later, enforce NOT NULL last add_column :t, :col, :string, null: false, default: "x" on large table Table rewrite + lock (PG < 11)
Add index (large table) algorithm: :concurrently (PG) / :inplace (MySQL) + disable_ddl_transaction! add_index :users, :email without algorithm: :concurrently Share lock blocks writes
Backfill data Batch job outside migration transaction, throttle to reduce replication lag User.update_all(...) inside migration Transaction lock held for full duration
Rename column Add new, copy data, migrate callers, drop old Rename column directly Breaks running app during deploy
Add NOT NULL After backfill confirms all rows have values Enforce NOT NULL before backfill completes Fails or locks on rows missing values
Add foreign key After cleaning orphaned records Add FK without cleaning orphans Constraint violation at migration time
Remove column Remove code references first, deploy, then drop column Drop column while code still reads it unknown attribute errors at runtime

For every step, state the expected lock or table-rewrite risk explicitly; if negligible, say why.

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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. 11d ago First seen · 115 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A a7bbed189a64

Subscribe to this mod's changes

review-migration is a skill published in the GitHub repository igmarin/rails-agent-skills (25 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,043 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 2026-08-30.

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