database-schema-migration-with-liquibase-and-flyway

database-schema-migration-with-liquibase-and-flyway is a skill for Claude Code from selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills. It costs 124 tokens per session (4,499 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to changing database structure safely with Liquibase and Flyway. These tools track changes such as tables and columns in version-controlled migration files.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps design migrations, choose between Liquibase and Flyway, support rolling deployments, handle rollback decisions, and test changes in CI.
Why use it?
A change that works on a small local database can lock or break a busy production database, especially while older application code is still running.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI.

Part of the database-operations-skills plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps design migrations, choose between Liquibase and Flyway, support rolling deployments, handle rollback decisions, and test changes in CI.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills/database-schema-migration-with-liquibase-and-flyway
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills --skill database-schema-migration-with-liquibase-and-flyway
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install database-operations-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,499 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
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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 $0.00124 $0.04499
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.02250
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00900
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00450

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1decb0deb8d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

database-schema-migration-with-liquibase-and-flyway 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 12d 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.

plugins/database-operations/skills/database-schema-migration-with-liquibase-and-flyway/SKILL.md · 388 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 388 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Database Schema Migration with Liquibase and Flyway

Purpose

Schema migrations are the one place where "it worked in my local database" and "it's safe to run against production" are routinely two very different claims — a migration that runs cleanly against an empty or small test database can lock a large production table for minutes, and a migration applied without considering the currently-running (old-version) application code can break it mid-rollout. This skill covers the two dominant version-controlled migration tools — Liquibase (XML/YAML/SQL changesets tracked in a changelog, with built-in rollback support) and Flyway (plain versioned SQL/Java migrations, forward-only by convention) — the forward-only-vs- reversible design decision itself, backward-compatible migration patterns for zero-downtime rolling deploys, and testing migrations in CI before they ever reach a real environment. It complements the database-specific operational skills in this repo (postgresql-operations-and-performance-tuning, mongodb-operations-and-scaling) by covering the tooling and process layer that should sit in front of any hand-run DDL change against those systems.

When to use

  • Introducing version-controlled migration tooling (Liquibase or Flyway) to a project that currently applies schema changes by hand or via untracked scripts.
  • Writing a new migration and deciding whether it needs (or can have) a rollback, and if forward-only, what the recovery plan is instead.
  • A migration failed partway through and left the schema (and the tool's tracking table) in an inconsistent state.
  • Designing a schema change (column rename, type change, NOT NULL addition, table split) that must not break the currently-running application during a rolling deploy where old and new code run simultaneously.
  • Setting up CI to actually run migrations against a real (or realistic) database before merge, rather than only reviewing the SQL by eye.
  • Migrating from one tool to another, or reconciling a migration history that's drifted from actual schema state.

Read the full file on GitHub · 388 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. 12d ago First seen · 388 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A 1decb0deb8d5

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database-schema-migration-with-liquibase-and-flyway is a skill published in the GitHub repository selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills (39 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 4,499 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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