Databases·v2.0.0

DB Migrate Agent Skill

Creates, checks the status of, and validates database migrations by auto-detecting the project's migration framework (Alembic, Prisma…

Context cost
3.9k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
2 files · 15.5 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
MITthe author’s own terms
Last change
—v2.0.0
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Creates, checks the status of, and validates database migrations by auto-detecting the project's migration framework (Alembic, Prisma, Knex, Django, Rails/ActiveRecord, Flyway, Atlas, TypeORM, Sequelize, SQLx, golang-migrate, Liquibase) from marker files, then driving that framework's own CLI. Use when the user wants to create a new migration, check pending vs. applied migration status, or validate a migration for a missing rollback script, a missing foreign-key index, or a destructive operation like DROP TABLE / TRUNCATE / DELETE FROM.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

databaseprisma
Filed under

Databases

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md8.6 kB · preview
--- name: db-migrate metadata: summary: "Create and validate database migrations, then manage them across any framework" author: mgiovani version: 2.0.0 argument-hint: '[create|status|validate] [--name migration_name] [--dry-run]' ---
11# DB Migrate
12
13Create, check the status of, and validate database migrations across any framework. Auto-detects the migration tool from project marker files and drives its native CLI: this skill never invents a migration command.
14
15## Ground rules
16
17- **Detect before acting.** Scan for marker files (Phase 1) before running anything.
18- **Never invent commands.** Only run commands from the detection table in [references/framework-commands.md](references/framework-commands.md) or found in the project's own docs/scripts.
19- **Flag destructive operations and never auto-fix them.** DROP TABLE, DROP COLUMN, TRUNCATE, DELETE FROM get a warning and require the user's explicit go-ahead: this skill reports, it does not silently rewrite or apply a migration containing one.
20- **Report only what a command actually produced.** File paths, migration names, and status output in the final summary must come from ls/cat/the framework CLI's own output, never guessed or reconstructed from memory.
21
22## Workflow
23
24### Phase 1: Detect framework
25
26```bash
27ls alembic.ini prisma/schema.prisma knexfile.* flyway.conf flyway.toml \
28 db/migrate/ manage.py atlas.hcl typeorm.config.* ormconfig.* \
29 liquibase.properties 2>/dev/null
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md1,181 words
Files2
LicenceMIT
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈290
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
3,585
on trigger
The instruction body and 1 supporting file, read only when the skill fires.
1.9%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 19% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

3.9k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Middling. Fine to keep on in a project where you use it weekly, worth unloading in one where you never do.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

2 files, 15.5 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md8.6 kB
  • references/framework-commands.md6.9 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 2 files you can review in full before installing. The MIT licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# DB Migrate · 3.9k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/db-migrate/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/db-migrate" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/db-migrate ] || { mv .claude/skills/db-migrate "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/db-migrate" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/db-migrate"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add mgiovani/db-migrate

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/db-migrate/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/db-migrate/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/db-migrate" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/db-migrate ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/db-migrate "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/db-migrate" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/db-migrate" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/db-migrate/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Version2.0.0
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencemgiovani/db-migrate

Versions

v2.0.0 is what is on the shelf; no release here carries a date. Instructions change more often than APIs do — a skill can be rewritten entirely without anything it depends on moving.

v2.0.0
  • No earlier releases have been published to the marketplace.
Pinning

The install command always fetches the release that is current the day you run it — v2.0.0 today — and cannot ask for an earlier one. The copy on your disk does not change until you run it again.

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