Database Migration

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Use when changing schema, repositories, migrations, or PostgreSQL integration behavior.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
DevelopmentIntermediate
7/22/2026
Claude CodeCursorCodex
#database-migrations#postgresql#schema#repositories#integration-testing

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Automated summary

Governs changes to the schema, migrations, and PostgreSQL repositories of the re-RAG review project, requiring bootstrap schema and migrations to stay in sync.

Strengths

  • Requires idempotent migrations kept consistent with the bootstrap schema (review_schema.sql)
  • Keeps SQL mapping logic inside repositories and mappers rather than API or MCP layers
  • Mandates unit tests for schema text, migration ordering, and repository edge cases
  • Adds PostgreSQL integration coverage when database semantics cannot be proven by unit tests alone
  • Finishes with focused database tests and make ci-local before handoff

Limitations

  • Tightly coupled to one repository layout (pubtator_link, make ci-local, AGENTS.md) and not directly reusable elsewhere
  • Does not cover rollback/downgrade migrations, zero-downtime strategies, or data backfills
When to use it

Use it whenever a task touches the database schema, a migration, or PostgreSQL repository behavior in this project.

When not to use it

Skip it for purely application-level or front-end changes that do not affect schema, migrations, or data access.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score85/100

The skill provides guidance for database migration tasks without instructing any destructive, exfiltrating, or obfuscated actions. It only references inspecting files, running tests, and using make ci-local, which are standard development practices.

No concerns found

How this analysis is made

Examples

Add an idempotent migration
Add a migration that introduces a new `review_run` table to the re-RAG schema, make it idempotent, keep it consistent with review_schema.sql, and add unit tests for schema text and migration ordering.
Fix repository mapping behavior
The review repository mapper returns wrong field values for nullable columns — move the SQL mapping into the repository/mapper layer and add edge-case unit tests plus PostgreSQL integration coverage.
Pre-handoff database check
Run the focused database tests for the migration changes I just made, then run make ci-local and report any failures.

name: database-migration description: Use when changing review re-RAG schema, repositories, migrations, or PostgreSQL integration behavior.

Database Migration

Follow AGENTS.md first.

Workflow

  1. Inspect pubtator_link/db/review_schema.sql, existing migrations, and repository tests before editing schema code.
  2. Make migrations idempotent and keep bootstrap schema and migrations consistent.
  3. Keep SQL mapping logic in repository/mappers, not API or MCP layers.
  4. Add or update unit tests for schema text, migration ordering, mapper behavior, and repository edge cases.
  5. Add PostgreSQL integration coverage when the behavior depends on database semantics that unit tests cannot prove.
  6. Run focused database tests, then make ci-local before handoff.

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Claude Code
test -f '.skill-downloads/database-migration-mrwak9zu/SKILL.md' && test -s '.skill-downloads/database-migration-mrwak9zu/SKILL.md' && mkdir -p '.claude/skills' && test ! -e '.claude/skills/database-migration' && cp -R '.skill-downloads/database-migration-mrwak9zu' '.claude/skills/database-migration'

Cursor
test -f '.skill-downloads/database-migration-mrwak9zu/SKILL.md' && test -s '.skill-downloads/database-migration-mrwak9zu/SKILL.md' && mkdir -p '.cursor/skills' && test ! -e '.cursor/skills/database-migration' && cp -R '.skill-downloads/database-migration-mrwak9zu' '.cursor/skills/database-migration'

Codex
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