database-review-patterns

database-review-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills. It costs 41 tokens per session (2,634 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review guide for database queries, object-relational mapping (ORM) code, schema changes, and other data-access code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing database-related pull requests or investigating slow queries, data-integrity errors, and connection problems.
Why use it?
It helps spot problems that may pass small tests but cause slow queries, broken data, unsafe changes, or production failures.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it when reviewing database-related pull requests or investigating slow queries, data-integrity errors, and connection problems.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills --skill database-review-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,634 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.
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 $0.00041 $0.02634
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01317
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00527
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00263

Measured 8d ago against content hash ae2094725fbf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

database-review-patterns 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-review-patterns/SKILL.md · 296 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 296 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Database Patterns for Code Review

Overview

Database anti-patterns are among the most damaging production defects: invisible in unit tests, appearing only under realistic data volumes, degrading performance non-linearly. This catalog covers patterns identifiable from code alone.

Use alongside performance-anti-patterns (N+1 and unbounded fetching) and security-patterns-code-review (SQL injection).

Quick Reference

Area Red Flag Severity Fix
N+1 Query ORM call inside a loop HIGH Eager load / JOIN / DataLoader
Missing Index WHERE/ORDER on non-indexed column HIGH Add targeted index
SELECT * findAll() without projection MEDIUM Select specific columns
Unbounded Query No LIMIT/pagination HIGH Cursor or offset pagination
SQL Injection String interpolation in query CRITICAL Parameterized queries
Missing Transaction Multi-step write without BEGIN/COMMIT HIGH Wrap in transaction
Schema Design Missing FK, wrong type, excessive NULLs HIGH Normalize, add constraints
Migration Safety NOT NULL without default, column drop in use CRITICAL Expand-contract migration
Connection Pool New connection per request HIGH Module-scoped pool
ORM Misuse Lazy load in loop, .save() on partial entity MEDIUM Explicit eager load / .update()
Data Integrity No constraints, orphaned rows HIGH FK constraints, cascades
Query Optimization Leading LIKE wildcard, correlated subquery MEDIUM Profile and index

Area 1: N+1 Query Problem

Red Flags: ORM call inside for/forEach/map; Promise.all(ids.map(id => repo.findOne(id))); relationship accessed in loop without eager loading.

// BEFORE — N+1: one query per order
const orders = await Order.findAll();
for (const order of orders) {
  order.customer = await Customer.findByPk(order.customerId);
}

// AFTER — single JOIN
const orders = await Order.findAll({
  include: [{ model: Customer, as: 'customer' }],
});

Read the full file on GitHub · 296 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. 8d ago First seen · 296 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A ae2094725fbf

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database-review-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 2,634 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 2026-08-31.

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