live-data-surgery

live-data-surgery is a skill for Claude Code from randommonicle/claude-skills. It costs 136 tokens per session (718 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A safety procedure for making destructive, one-off changes to a shared or production-adjacent database. It requires checking the data first and testing the operation inside a transaction that can be rolled back.

In plain words
What is it for?
Bulk deletes, cleanup operations, and database re-baselining outside automated tests.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of deleting or changing the wrong records. It also requires checks that help reveal mistakes before changes are committed.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ash plugin — 43 skills, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Bulk deletes, cleanup operations, and database re-baselining outside automated tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/randommonicle/claude-skills/live-data-surgery
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.

Any agent
npx skills add randommonicle/claude-skills --skill live-data-surgery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/randommonicle/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ash, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills, 3 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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agentmods badge for live-data-surgery

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for live-data-surgery

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 136 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 718 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 $0.00136 $0.00718
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.00359
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00072

Measured 11d ago against content hash ae582bd8dfd8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

live-data-surgery 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 11d 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.

live-data-surgery/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Live-data surgery

Six incidents around ad-hoc destructive operations: a sweep whose self-check under-claimed, a committed cleanup that would have deleted the demo data because "Smoke" was its name, over a thousand leaked rows from an earlier partial pass, and a bulk delete rolled back wholesale by one surviving RESTRICT child. safe-smokes governs tests; this skill governs the one-off surgery — same danger, different trigger surface. A warn-and-log hook (hooks/sql-surgery-warn.mjs) backstops this skill by logging destructive SQL it sees.

The protocol, in order

  1. Read-only inventory first. Count, sample, and walk the FK graph of what the predicate matches — as a result grid you read, not NOTICEs that scroll away.
  2. Check the markers sit on disposable rows. A name is not a disposability proof: "Smoke" turned out to be the demo dataset. Verify by content, not label.
  3. BEGIN … ROLLBACK dry run. The transaction still returns the report rows, so you see exactly what would happen at zero risk. Script version: dry-run by default, mutate only under an explicit --apply.
  4. Complement-count proof with NULL-collapsed predicates. Three-valued SQL makes NOT (x = y) lie on NULLs; prove kept + deleted = total with predicates that collapse NULL explicitly.
  5. Self-check re-runs EVERY predicate. A sweep's final assertion must re-run each seed predicate individually — a combined check once under-claimed and left residue attributed to success.
  6. FK order and atomicity. Delete children before parents; know that one surviving RESTRICT child rolls back an entire atomic bulk delete — which is a feature, if you watch for it.
  7. Gate tamper-evidence resets. Anything that resets audit trails, sequence baselines, or tamper-evidence gets its own explicit confirmation, never rides along.

What this skill does not do

It does not apply inside test harnesses — safe-smokes owns test hygiene, including flip-and-restore and teardown assertions. It does not authorise the surgery; it assumes the decision is made and makes the execution provable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 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. 11d ago First seen · 48 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A ae582bd8dfd8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

live-data-surgery is a skill published in the GitHub repository randommonicle/claude-skills (23 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 136 tokens to every session and 718 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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