database-migration-helper

database-migration-helper is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from khalilbenaz/claude-skills-collection. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,897 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to changing a database structure and updating existing data safely. It explains migrations, which are versioned database changes, including zero-downtime and rollback strategies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan expand-contract changes, backfill existing rows in batches, add indexes online, and coordinate database changes with application deployments.
Why use it?
It reduces service interruptions and protects data when adding, renaming, changing, or removing columns, tables, and indexes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan expand-contract changes, backfill existing rows in batches, add indexes online, and coordinate database changes with application deployments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/khalilbenaz/claude-skills-collection/database-migration-helper
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add khalilbenaz/claude-skills-collection --skill database-migration-helper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/khalilbenaz/claude-skills-collection

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,897 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 $0.00081 $0.01897
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00949
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00379
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00190

Measured 9d ago against content hash b69e40622407, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

database-migration-helper 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 9d 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.

dev-skills/database-migration-helper/SKILL.md · 222 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 222 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Database Migration Helper

1. Qualifier le changement

Avant tout, caractériser l'opération :

Type Risque Stratégie recommandée
Ajout colonne nullable Faible Migration directe
Ajout colonne NOT NULL sans default Élevé Expand-contract obligatoire
Renommage colonne/table Élevé Alias + expand-contract
Suppression colonne/table Élevé Phase contract après code nettoyé
Changement de type Élevé Colonne intermédiaire + backfill
Ajout index (grande table) Moyen Index CONCURRENTLY / online
Data migration (backfill) Variable Batches, jamais full-table en une passe

2. Choisir la stratégie

Expand-Contract (zero-downtime, recommandé pour prod)

Trois phases déployées séparément :

  1. Expand — ajouter la nouvelle colonne/table, sans toucher à l'ancienne.
  2. Migrate — double-écriture dans le code, backfill des données existantes.
  3. Contract — supprimer l'ancienne colonne/table une fois le code nettoyé déployé.

Migration avec fenêtre de maintenance

Acceptable uniquement si : trafic < 100 rps OU table < 100k lignes OU downtime explicitement accepté par le métier.

Blue-Green

Maintenir deux environnements avec bascule DNS/load-balancer. Adapté aux changements majeurs de schéma impossibles à rendre backward-compatible.


3. Écrire la migration selon l'outil

EF Core (C#)

dotnet ef migrations add AddUserEmailIndex --project src/Infrastructure
dotnet ef database update --connection "Server=...;Database=...;"
# Rollback vers migration précédente
dotnet ef database update NomMigrationPrecedente
// Migration générée — toujours vérifier le SQL produit
protected override void Up(MigrationBuilder mb)
{
    mb.AddColumn<string>("email_verified", "users", nullable: true);
    mb.CreateIndex("IX_users_email", "users", "email", unique: true);
}
protected override void Down(MigrationBuilder mb)
{
    mb.DropIndex("IX_users_email", "users");
    mb.DropColumn("email_verified", "users");
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 222 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. 9d ago First seen · 222 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A b69e40622407

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database-migration-helper is a skill published in the GitHub repository khalilbenaz/claude-skills-collection (22 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,897 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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