schema-evolution-planner

schema-evolution-planner is a skill for Claude Code from wyattowalsh/agents. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,825 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning tool for changing a live database safely in stages while old and new application code continue to work. It covers expand-contract migrations, where new structures are added before old ones are removed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or review staged schema migrations, backfill plans, compatibility windows, and the final switch to the new database structure.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of downtime or data loss during database schema changes. It helps coordinate code changes, data backfills, temporary dual reads or writes, cutovers, and rollback points.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the agents plugin — 71 skills, 20 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan or review staged schema migrations, backfill plans, compatibility windows, and the final switch to the new database structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wyattowalsh/agents/schema-evolution-planner
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add wyattowalsh/agents --skill schema-evolution-planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wyattowalsh/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 71 skills, 20 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,825 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.
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 $0.00040 $0.01825
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00730
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00365
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00183

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d30b44a2c677, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

schema-evolution-planner 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 8 executable files (scripts/asset_toolkit/__init__.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/_shared.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/common.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/schema-evolution-planner/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Schema Evolution Planner

Plan safe, staged database schema changes across application code, backfills, and cutovers.

Scope: Expand-contract and compatibility planning for live systems. NOT for greenfield schema design (database-architect) or DBA operations.

Canonical Vocabulary

Term Definition
expand Additive schema change compatible with existing code
backfill Data migration that populates new structures from old data
dual-write Temporarily writing old and new representations
dual-read Temporarily reading from both old and new representations
cutover The point where traffic or logic switches to the new path
contract Removal of deprecated schema after compatibility window closes
compatibility window Period where old and new code must both work
invariant Condition that must remain true during migration
shadow column New field added beside the old field during migration
rollback point Last safe state that can be restored without data loss

Dispatch

$ARGUMENTS Mode
plan <change> Build the full migration sequence
review <migration or rollout> Audit an existing evolution plan
backfill <change> Design the data backfill strategy
cutover <change> Plan read or write switchover
deprecate <change> Plan the contract and removal stage
Natural language about zero-downtime schema changes Auto-detect the closest mode
Empty Show the mode menu with examples

Mode Menu

# Mode Example
1 Plan plan rename users.username to handle
2 Review review migration plan for orders status enum change
3 Backfill backfill new account_id on invoices
4 Cutover cutover reads to new customer_profile table
5 Deprecate deprecate legacy address columns

When to Use

  • Renaming columns or tables in a live system
  • Splitting or merging tables without downtime
  • Adding required fields to existing tables
  • Introducing new identifiers or foreign keys gradually
  • Coordinating schema changes with multiple application deploys

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 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. 1mo ago First seen · 167 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A d30b44a2c677

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schema-evolution-planner is a skill published in the GitHub repository wyattowalsh/agents (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,825 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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