firebird-database

A guide to using Firebird, a relational database, from Delphi applications through FireDAC, Delphi's database-access library.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when configuring Firebird connections, designing database objects, writing repositories, managing transactions, creating migrations or improving queries and indexes.
Why use it?
It helps avoid connection, SQL, transaction, migration and query mistakes that can cause database code to fail or behave unexpectedly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/secondlifes/delphi-expert/firebird-database
Any agent
npx skills add SecondLifes/delphi-expert --skill firebird-database
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SecondLifes/delphi-expert

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 516 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 $0.00025 $0.00516
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00258
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00052

Measured 2d ago against content hash 92392b40a1de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

firebird-database 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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/firebird-database/SKILL.md · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Firebird Database — Skill

Use this skill when working with Firebird database in Delphi projects via FireDAC.

When to Use

  • When configuring FireDAC connection with Firebird
  • When creating tables, generators, stored procedures, triggers, domains and views
  • When implementing Repositories with FireDAC + Firebird
  • When working with transactions, isolation levels and concurrency
  • When planning schema migrations (versioned scripts)
  • When optimizing queries and indexes for Firebird

Quick Reference

Minimum connection:

FConnection.DriverName := 'FB';
FConnection.Params.Values['CharacterSet'] := 'UTF8';    //ALWAYS UTF8
FConnection.Params.Values['SQLDialect'] := '3';          //NEVER Dialect 1
FConnection.Params.Values['Protocol'] := 'TCPIP';        //Or 'Local' for embedded
FConnection.Params.Values['PageSize'] := '16384';         // 16KB recomendado
FConnection.TxOptions.Isolation := xiReadCommitted;       //Standard isolation

Golden rules: Dialect 3 always (never 1), RETURNING always needs Open (never ExecSQL), CharacterSet UTF8 always, parameterized queries only, CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS does not exist (check RDB$RELATIONS instead). Full details and code for each are in the reference files below — read the one that matches the task at hand rather than guessing.

references/

Read only the file(s) relevant to the current task — this skill file is intentionally short; the depth lives in these files.

  • connection-and-types.md — supported versions, FireDAC connection setup (driver link, pooling), dialect 1 vs 3, Firebird ↔ Delphi data type mapping.
  • schema-and-migrations.md — generators/sequences, IDENTITY columns, RETURNING in Delphi, domains, triggers, migration scripts, runtime schema-existence checks, and gbak backup/restore.
  • querying.md — selectable vs executable stored procedures, EXECUTE BLOCK, and Packages (Firebird 3+).
  • transactions-and-ops.md — transactions/isolation levels, event alerter (POST_EVENT), anti-patterns, Firebird Embedded integration testing, and the pre-flight checklist.

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 2d ago First seen · 42 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 92392b40a1de

Subscribe to this mod's changes

firebird-database is a skill published in the GitHub repository SecondLifes/delphi-expert (3 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 516 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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