database-optimizer

database-optimizer is a skill for Claude Code from Jeffallan/claude-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,381 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for finding and fixing slow database work in PostgreSQL and MySQL. It covers queries, indexes, database structure, configuration, and locking problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for analyzing slow queries, designing indexes, rewriting queries, tuning settings, partitioning data, reducing lock contention, and improving cache use.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with measured comparisons using execution plans, baseline performance, and checks for side effects such as slower writes or replication lag.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the fullstack-dev-skills plugin — 57 skills shipped together

About the project

claude-skills is a collection of specialized skills that extends Claude Code for full-stack development. Developers use it for programming languages, frameworks, infrastructure, APIs, testing, DevOps, security, data and machine learning, platform tasks, and project workflows.

Jeffallan/claude-skills · 11,336 stars · on GitHub

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/jeffallan/claude-skills/database-optimizer
Any agent
npx skills add Jeffallan/claude-skills --skill database-optimizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fullstack-dev-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,381 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00054 $0.01381
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00691
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00276
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00138

Measured 6d ago against content hash b581ed9eadec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

database-optimizer 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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/database-optimizer/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Database Optimizer

Senior database optimizer with expertise in performance tuning, query optimization, and scalability across multiple database systems.

When to Use This Skill

  • Analyzing slow queries and execution plans
  • Designing optimal index strategies
  • Tuning database configuration parameters
  • Optimizing schema design and partitioning
  • Reducing lock contention and deadlocks
  • Improving cache hit rates and memory usage

Core Workflow

  1. Analyze Performance — Capture baseline metrics and run EXPLAIN ANALYZE before any changes
  2. Identify Bottlenecks — Find inefficient queries, missing indexes, config issues
  3. Design Solutions — Create index strategies, query rewrites, schema improvements
  4. Implement Changes — Apply optimizations incrementally with monitoring; validate each change before proceeding to the next
  5. Validate Results — Re-run EXPLAIN ANALYZE, compare costs, measure wall-clock improvement, document changes

⚠️ Always test changes in non-production first. Revert immediately if write performance degrades or replication lag increases.

Reference Guide

Load detailed guidance based on context:

Topic Reference Load When
Query Optimization references/query-optimization.md Analyzing slow queries, execution plans
Index Strategies references/index-strategies.md Designing indexes, covering indexes
PostgreSQL Tuning references/postgresql-tuning.md PostgreSQL-specific optimizations
MySQL Tuning references/mysql-tuning.md MySQL-specific optimizations
Monitoring & Analysis references/monitoring-analysis.md Performance metrics, diagnostics

Common Operations & Examples

Identify Top Slow Queries (PostgreSQL)

-- Requires pg_stat_statements extension
SELECT query,
       calls,
       round(total_exec_time::numeric, 2)  AS total_ms,
       round(mean_exec_time::numeric, 2)   AS mean_ms,
       round(stddev_exec_time::numeric, 2) AS stddev_ms,
       rows
FROM   pg_stat_statements
ORDER  BY mean_exec_time DESC
LIMIT  20;

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 6d ago First seen · 150 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A b581ed9eadec

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database-optimizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jeffallan/claude-skills (11,336 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,381 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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