ai-persistence/build-custom-adapter

A recipe for connecting TanStack AI chat history to a database that does not have a dedicated adapter, such as PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Supabase, or Redis. A chat-persistence adapter is code that saves and retrieves conversations through that database.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create the app's chat-persistence.ts file, add required database tables through existing migrations, and verify the four storage components and their idempotency rules.
Why use it?
It provides a defined implementation path without creating a second database client or migration system, while preserving the required storage rules.

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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/tanstack/ai/build-custom-adapter
Any agent
npx skills add TanStack/ai --skill build-custom-adapter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TanStack/ai

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Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01953
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00781
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00391

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3173bd8c784a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-persistence/build-custom-adapter 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.

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Nothing flagged

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packages/ai-persistence/skills/ai-persistence/build-custom-adapter/SKILL.md · 329 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 329 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Custom Chat Persistence

The deliverable is one file in the appsrc/lib/chat-persistence.ts — exporting a ChatPersistence built from the database client the app already has. Plus whatever DDL that database needs, added through the app's existing migration flow.

Do not create a package, a second client, or a migration runner.

Route first. If the app already runs one of these, stop and use that skill — it has the driver-specific code:

App runs Use
Drizzle ORM (any dialect) ai-persistence/build-drizzle-adapter
Prisma ai-persistence/build-prisma-adapter
Cloudflare Workers + D1 ai-persistence/build-cloudflare-adapter

Everything else lands here. The full contracts and their invariants are in ai-persistence/stores and docs/persistence/store-reference.md; the complete worked node:sqlite walkthrough is docs/persistence/build-your-own-chat-adapter.md and examples/ts-react-chat/src/lib/sqlite-persistence.ts.

1. Read the app before writing anything

Find Where to look What it decides
The client src/db.ts, src/lib/db.ts, src/server/db.ts What the file imports — never construct a second pool
Client lifetime module singleton vs per-request factory (getDb(), bindings) export const chatPersistence vs export function
Migration flow migrations/, drizzle/, supabase/migrations/, an ORM CLI How the DDL gets applied — use theirs, add nothing new
Naming conventions existing tables/collections Prefix (chat_*) so nothing collides
JSON support jsonb (Postgres), json (MySQL 5.7+), text (SQLite) Whether mappers stringify/parse
Import alias tsconfig.json paths @/db, ~/db, #/db, or a relative path

Read the full file on GitHub · 329 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 2d ago First seen · 329 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 3173bd8c784a

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ai-persistence/build-custom-adapter is a skill published in the GitHub repository TanStack/ai (3,056 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 3,906 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.