database-scout

A codebase analysis tool that turns imports and dependencies in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, and Java projects into architecture diagrams, flowcharts, or file-structure charts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map module dependencies, follow file-level import paths, or show how folders and files are organized as Mermaid text or SVG images.
Why use it?
It makes relationships in an unfamiliar codebase easier to understand than reading files one by one.

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/zebbern/claude-code-guide/database-scout
Any agent
npx skills add zebbern/claude-code-guide --skill database-scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zebbern/claude-code-guide

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,174 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 $0.00076 $0.01174
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00587
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00235
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00117

Measured 2d ago against content hash ff89375aba18, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

database-scout 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/db_explorer.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/database-scout/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

database-scout

Read-only exploration tool for SQLite / PostgreSQL databases — inspect table schemas, preview data, generate ER diagrams, and run safe queries.

Feature Overview

Feature Description
List all tables Show tables and views in the database, with row counts
Inspect table schema Column names, types, constraints (PK/FK/NOT NULL), indexes, defaults
Data preview View the first N rows of a table
ER diagram generation Output Mermaid erDiagram syntax, ready to render
Safe read-only queries Only SELECT/WITH/EXPLAIN allowed; write operations are blocked

Security Mechanisms

  • Connection-level read-only: SQLite opens with ?mode=ro URI; PostgreSQL uses SET SESSION READ ONLY
  • SQL whitelist: Only statements starting with SELECT / WITH / EXPLAIN / PRAGMA / SHOW are allowed
  • Dangerous keyword blocking: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, DROP, ALTER, CREATE, and 30+ other keywords are blocked
  • Multi-statement blocking: Semicolon-separated multiple SQL statements are rejected (prevents injection)
  • Identifier escaping: Table names are double-quote escaped to prevent SQL injection

Quick Start

# List all tables in a SQLite database
python3 scripts/db_explorer.py --db-path data.db list-tables

# Inspect table schema
python3 scripts/db_explorer.py --db-path data.db describe users

# Preview data (default 20 rows)
python3 scripts/db_explorer.py --db-path data.db preview orders --limit 10

# Generate Mermaid ER diagram
python3 scripts/db_explorer.py --db-path data.db er-diagram

# Run a read-only query
python3 scripts/db_explorer.py --db-path data.db query "SELECT name, age FROM users WHERE age > 18 LIMIT 10"

PostgreSQL

# Connect to PostgreSQL
python3 scripts/db_explorer.py --db-type postgres --dsn "host=localhost dbname=mydb user=reader" list-tables

# Inspect table schema
python3 scripts/db_explorer.py --db-type postgres --dsn "host=localhost dbname=mydb user=reader" describe orders

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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 · 133 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A ff89375aba18

Subscribe to this mod's changes

database-scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository zebbern/claude-code-guide (4,597 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,174 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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