connection-debug

A database troubleshooting guide for connection failures and stuck queries. It focuses on PostgreSQL connection activity, locks, idle transactions, and connection pools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect active connections, find blocking transactions, identify heavy connection users, and suggest fixes such as pooling or timeout settings.
Why use it?
It helps identify why a database is refusing connections, running out of connection slots, or waiting on locks.

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/irsyadjpp/postgres-mcp-server/connection-debug
Any agent
npx skills add irsyadjpp/postgres-mcp-server --skill connection-debug
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/irsyadjpp/postgres-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 161 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00041 $0.00161
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00081
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00016

Measured yesterday against content hash ae14620aebd1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

connection-debug 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to connection-debug — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/connection-debug/SKILL.md · 12 lines

What it actually says

Workflow:

  1. Run get_connections with include_queries=true to see all active connections
  2. Check warnings for idle-in-transaction connections. If any are > 10 minutes, suggest terminating with SELECT pg_terminate_backend(pid)
  3. If utilization > 80%, identify top consumers by application_name or user
  4. If any connections show wait_event_type = 'Lock', run diagnose_database to see blocking lock chains
  5. Suggest remediation: increase max_connections, configure connection pooling (PgBouncer), set idle_in_transaction_session_timeout, fix application connection leaks
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. yesterday First seen · 12 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A ae14620aebd1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

connection-debug is a skill published in the GitHub repository irsyadjpp/postgres-mcp-server (0 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed ISC. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 161 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to connection-debug, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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