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Guide for using Netlify Database — the GA managed Postgres product built into Netlify. Use when a project needs any kind of dynamic, structured, or relational data. Covers provisioning via @netlify/database, Drizzle ORM (@beta) setup, migrations, preview branching, and safe production data handling. Blobs is only for file/asset storage — any dynamic data belongs in the database.

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2.70x
Quality

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

100%

2.70x

Average score across 1 eval scenario

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

SKILL.md
Quality
Evals
Security

Quality

Content

85%

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

The body is highly actionable with executable code, well-sequenced workflows and validation checkpoints, and clean one-level reference splitting. Its only weakness is length and some safety-rule repetition that could be tightened.

Suggestions

Consolidate the repeated 'never apply migrations to a hosted DB / never run DDL through a direct connection' guidance into one authoritative section and have other sections link back to it rather than restating it.

Consider moving the full legacy-extension comparison table and the first-deploy-provisioning failure playbook into references, keeping SKILL.md focused on the recommended GA path.

Trim explanatory phrasing around guardrails (e.g. 'Wandering off the documented surface is how agents end up…') to reduce token cost without losing the safety signal.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is information-dense and assumes Claude's competence, but at ~360 lines it restates the 'never run DDL / never apply migrations to a hosted DB' rule across several sections (CRITICAL blocks, Common mistakes, CLI commands, local dev), which is justified by safety but adds verbosity.

2 / 3

Actionability

Provides fully executable, copy-paste-ready code (schema, Drizzle client, config, query patterns, native driver, transactions) plus exact CLI commands with version pins and concrete install lines.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The schema-change and preview-first provisioning workflows are numbered with explicit validation checkpoints ('Verify the deploy log shows…', 'Only proceed when…') and dedicated failure playbooks, satisfying the feedback-loop requirement for destructive database operations.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

SKILL.md acts as an overview that offloads deep material to one-level-deep, clearly signaled references (migrations.md, cli-commands.md, local-dev.md, legacy-extension.md, migration-from-extension.md), all of which are real bundle files.

3 / 3

Total

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12

Passed

Description

100%

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 is specific, well-triggered, and complete, naming concrete capabilities and an explicit 'Use when' clause while distinguishing the skill from Netlify Blobs. It is a strong, concise trigger description.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'provisioning via @netlify/database, Drizzle ORM (@beta) setup, migrations, preview branching, and safe production data handling' — matching the multi-action anchor.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Guide for using Netlify Database… Covers provisioning… migrations, preview branching…') and when ('Use when a project needs any kind of dynamic, structured, or relational data.').

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Covers natural user-facing terms ('dynamic, structured, or relational data', 'managed Postgres product', 'database', 'migrations') alongside product-specific ones, giving good coverage of phrasing a user would actually say.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Carves a clear niche and explicitly disambiguates from the closest competitor ('Blobs is only for file/asset storage — any dynamic data belongs in the database'), making wrong-skill triggering unlikely.

3 / 3

Total

12

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12

Passed

Validation

100%

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

Validation16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository
netlify/context-and-tools
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