database-design

A guide for designing or reviewing data stores, including relational databases, document stores, key-value stores, graph databases, and search systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new schemas, indexes, migrations, persistence boundaries, and query-driven data design.
Why use it?
It helps prevent schema and migration problems by connecting data structures to real queries, ownership, privacy, recovery, and operational requirements.

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/thiientv/godmode/database-design
Any agent
npx skills add thiientv/godmode --skill database-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thiientv/godmode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 390 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 $0.00078 $0.00390
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00195
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00039

Measured 2d ago against content hash 96aca675d7a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

database-design 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.

skills/database-design/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Database Design

Start from invariants and access patterns; a schema is an operational contract.

Design sequence

  1. Identify entities, ownership, lifecycle, source of truth, cardinality, and deletion/retention rules.
  2. Write invariants and transaction boundaries before choosing tables or collections.
  3. Map real reads, writes, filters, sorts, joins, uniqueness, and expected scale. Add indexes for measured access paths, not guesses.
  4. Decide consistency, isolation, idempotency, concurrency, and failure recovery at each boundary.
  5. Design an expand-migrate-contract migration: backward-compatible expand, backfill/dual-write when needed, cutover, verification, and cleanup.
  6. Protect sensitive data with least privilege, encryption, minimization, auditability, and retention limits.

Read schema-checklist.md. Include rollback, backup/restore, lock duration, online migration behavior, and observability in the plan. Treat production data as irreplaceable unless a tested recovery path proves otherwise.

Evidence

Use representative query plans, migration rehearsal on a safe fixture, invariant tests, concurrency checks, and restore evidence. A migration that applies once is not proven safe to roll forward, retry, or roll back.

Completion condition

The model's invariants, access paths, migration lifecycle, privacy boundary, recovery path, and proof commands are explicit.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 45 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 96aca675d7a2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

database-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository thiientv/godmode (93 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 390 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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