database-migration

Guidance for changing a database's structure through safe, reversible migration files. A database stores an application's users, content, and other information.

In plain words
What is it for?
It covers rollback steps, safe column changes, gradual renaming, low-lock index creation, batched data updates, and local migration testing.
Why use it?
It helps avoid downtime, broken deployments, and data loss when adding, changing, or indexing database fields and tables.

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/wojcikmm/spec-development-protocol/database-migration
Any agent
npx skills add WojcikMM/spec-development-protocol --skill database-migration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WojcikMM/spec-development-protocol

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 270 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 $0.00015 $0.00270
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00135
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00027

Measured 2d ago against content hash ee08b1d29a10, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

database-migration 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.

.apm/skills/database-migration/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Skill: Write Database Migration

Purpose

Produce a safe, reviewable, and reversible database schema change that can be deployed without downtime or data loss.

Prerequisites

  • Data model change is defined in the technical design.
  • ORM/migration tool is specified in TECH.md.

Checklist

  1. One change per migration: Don't bundle unrelated schema changes. Name it clearly.
  2. Always provide a rollback: The change must be reversible.
  3. Non-nullable columns: Must have a DEFAULT value or a backfill step.
  4. Renaming: Use a multi-step expand-migrate-contract pattern. Do not rename and deploy in a single step.
  5. Index creation: Use CONCURRENTLY (PostgreSQL) or equivalent to avoid table locks.
  6. Backfills: Run in batches. Separate data migrations from schema migrations.
  7. Testing: Run the migration and its rollback locally before committing. Verify the schema diff and check for data loss.

Quality Bar

  • Migration and rollback apply cleanly.
  • No data loss occurs.
  • CI runs the migration during the test pipeline.
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 · 32 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A ee08b1d29a10

Subscribe to this mod's changes

database-migration is a skill published in the GitHub repository WojcikMM/spec-development-protocol (2 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 270 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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