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database-admin

Expert database administrator specializing in modern cloud databases, automation, and reliability engineering.

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The canonical home for this skill is database-admin in administrakt0r/AI-Agents-Safe-Coding-Skills

SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

31%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The content is a broad capabilities catalog with reasonable section structure and a coherent high-level workflow, but it is padded with redundant restatements, lacks executable/code-level guidance, has no validation checkpoints for destructive DB operations, and references a non-existent playbook file. It reads more like a persona profile than an actionable skill.

Suggestions

Collapse the redundant 'Purpose', 'Knowledge Base', and 'Behavioral Traits' sections into the capabilities list to remove padding and reclaim context budget.

Add concrete, executable guidance — example Terraform/Flyway snippets or specific backup/restore commands — instead of abstract instructions like 'Apply relevant best practices'.

Insert explicit validation/feedback checkpoints into the Response Approach (e.g., 'Verify replica lag after failover; if RPO breached, re-run from last good backup') and fix or remove the broken 'resources/implementation-playbook.md' reference.

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Conciseness

The body is noticeably padded: 'Purpose', 'Knowledge Base', 'Behavioral Traits', and 'Response Approach' largely restate the capabilities catalog, and phrases like 'Masters multi-cloud database platforms' add fluff, fitting 'Noticeably verbose; several unnecessary explanations or padded sections'; not a 3 because the redundancy is substantial rather than occasional, not a 1 because it avoids explaining basic concepts Claude already knows.

2 / 5

Actionability

Guidance is high-level and abstract ('Clarify goals...', 'Apply relevant best practices and validate outcomes') with no executable code, commands, or concrete steps; named tools (Terraform, Flyway, PgBouncer) provide minimal concrete direction, matching 'Minimal concrete guidance; high-level hints but missing the specific steps'; not a 3 because nothing is directly executable, not a 1 because tool names and a step list are present.

2 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The 'Response Approach' gives a clear 9-step sequence (Assess -> Design -> Implement -> Monitor -> Backup -> Secure -> DR -> Optimize -> Document) but lacks explicit validation checkpoints or feedback loops; database ops involve destructive/batch operations, so per the guidelines workflow_clarity is capped at 3; not a 4 because validation is only implicit ('regular testing'), not a 2 because the sequence is coherent.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Most capability detail is inlined as a monolithic catalog that belongs in separate reference files, and the single signaled reference ('open resources/implementation-playbook.md') points to a file that does not exist in any bundle directory, fitting 'Minimal structure; content that clearly belongs in separate files is inlined'; not a 3 because section headers exist, but the broken reference and inlined bulk keep it at 2.

2 / 5

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Description

48%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description clearly identifies the domain and specialization in third person, but it is a role statement rather than an action-oriented trigger: it lacks concrete actions and any 'Use when...' guidance. Adding explicit trigger phrases and concrete actions would lift specificity and completeness.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause naming concrete trigger situations (e.g., 'Use when designing multi-region database HA/DR, automating schema migrations, or optimizing cloud database costs').

Replace the role-flavored specialization list with concrete actions (e.g., 'Provision, migrate, back up, and monitor cloud databases across AWS/Azure/GCP').

Include natural synonyms and tool/extension triggers users actually say (e.g., 'DBA', 'PostgreSQL', 'RDS', 'Terraform') to improve trigger-term coverage.

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Specificity

The description names the domain ('database administrator') and specialization areas ('modern cloud databases, automation, and reliability engineering') but lists no concrete actions, matching the anchor 'Names the domain but actions are minimal or generic'; not a 1 because it does specify areas of focus, not a 3 because no actionable verbs are present.

2 / 5

Completeness

It gives a clear 'what' (database admin specializing in cloud DBs, automation, reliability) but entirely omits a 'when'/'Use when...' trigger clause, which per the guidelines caps completeness at 3; not a 2 because the 'what' is clear rather than vague, not a 4 because no explicit trigger guidance exists.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Terms like 'database administrator', 'cloud databases', and 'automation' are reasonably natural, but common variations (e.g., 'DBA', 'database ops') and concrete trigger phrases are missing, fitting 'Some relevant keywords but missing common variations or synonyms'; not a 4 because coverage is thin and no file/tool triggers appear.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

'Database administrator' is a fairly distinct niche with clear triggers, with only minor overlap risk against adjacent SRE/DevOps skills; not a 3 because 'database admin' is more specific than generic document/code skills, not a 5 because 'automation' and 'reliability engineering' invite some overlap with broader cloud-ops skills.

4 / 5

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Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

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