planetscale-pscale-cli-automation

planetscale-pscale-cli-automation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from planetscale/claude-plugin. It costs 77 tokens per session (919 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of planetscale-pscale-cli-automation, Apache-2.0.

Instructions for running the PlanetScale command-line tool, called pscale, from automated coding agents. It covers machine-readable output, authentication checks, SQL commands, and required confirmation flags.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an agent must verify pscale access, run PlanetScale SQL or other commands without prompts, or return command results as JSON.
Why use it?
It makes command-line database work predictable for automation and helps agents detect authentication problems before running commands. PlanetScale is a hosted database service, and a command-line tool is a program operated from a terminal.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the planetscale plugin — 19 skills shipped together

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/planetscale/claude-plugin/14-pscale-cli-automation
Any agent
npx skills add planetscale/claude-plugin --skill 14-pscale-cli-automation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/planetscale/claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install planetscale, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 919 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 86% 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 $0.00077 $0.00919
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00460
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00092

Measured 5d ago against content hash 704202e8406d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

planetscale-pscale-cli-automation 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 5d 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

This is a copy

86% identical to planetscale-pscale-cli-automation — 6 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.

planetscale-skills/14-pscale-cli-automation/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PlanetScale CLI automation

Purpose

Teach agents how to invoke pscale non-interactively. This skill covers CLI conventions only. Operational workflows (inventory, safety review, schema recommendations) use the other skills in this repo — start with ../00-safe-orchestrator/SKILL.md for a full assessment.

Two AGENTS.md files (do not confuse them)

Document Where Purpose
CLI agent guide Shipped with pscale (AGENTS.md in the CLI repo, or pscale agent-guide) How to call pscale: auth, --format json, flag placement, pscale sql
Project agent guide Your application repository's AGENTS.md Which org, database, branch, engine, prod branch, MCP scope, approval rules

Do not edit project AGENTS.md without operator approval (see ../09-mcp-agent-operating-model/SKILL.md).

Bootstrap (always start here)

pscale agent-guide --format json
pscale auth check --format json

If auth check returns "status": "action_required", follow issues and next_steps in the JSON. For login, the human may need to approve in the browser; use pscale auth login --format json.

Conventions

  • Always pass --format json for automation.
  • Put --org <org> on resource subcommands (database, branch, sql, api, …) — not on root pscale.
  • Put positional arguments before flags (pscale sql mydb main --org bb …).
  • Use pscale sql, not pscale shell (shell requires a TTY).
  • Default SQL role is reader; pass --role admin (or writer/readwriter) for writes. Match pscale shell semantics for --role and --replica.
  • --force is per subcommand only (e.g. database delete … --force, pscale sql … --force). There is no global --force or PSCALE_FORCE.
  • --format json alone never skips confirmations — add --force on the destructive subcommand after explicit user approval.

Typical workflow

pscale auth check --format json
pscale org list --format json
pscale database list --org <org> --format json
pscale branch list <database> --org <org> --format json
pscale sql <database> <branch> --org <org> --format json --query "SELECT 1"

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 5d ago First seen · 95 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 704202e8406d

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planetscale-pscale-cli-automation is a skill published in the GitHub repository planetscale/claude-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 919 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to planetscale-pscale-cli-automation, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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