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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.

81

2.22x
Quality

92%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

100%

2.22x

Average score across 1 eval scenario

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No findings from the security scan

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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 content is highly actionable with clear, validated workflows and a clean one-level-deep reference structure. The main weakness is conciseness: several safety rules are restated verbatim across multiple sections and could be consolidated to a single source of truth with brief cross-references.

Suggestions

Consolidate the repeated no-DDL / never-apply-hosted-migrations / @beta rules into one canonical statement and reference it from the other sections instead of restating them each time.

The "CRITICAL: Use the Netlify CLI" and "When something fails, surface and stop" sections overlap on the "never go around the CLI" guidance; merge or cross-link to remove the duplication.

Trim the provisioning section's repeated restatement of the migration-application rule, since it is already covered in the dedicated "CRITICAL: Never apply migrations" section.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient and Netlify-specific, but several rules are repeated multiple times (the no-DDL-through-connect rule, the @beta install requirement, and the never-apply-hosted-migrations rule each appear 3+ times across CRITICAL sections, CLI guidance, and Common mistakes), which is verbosity the rubric penalizes even when accurate.

2 / 3

Actionability

It provides fully executable, copy-paste-ready code (schema.ts, drizzle client, drizzle.config.ts, package scripts, query patterns, native driver, transactions) and concrete CLI commands throughout, matching the executable-code anchor.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The preview-first provisioning workflow is an explicitly sequenced numbered list with a validation checkpoint ("Verify the deploy log shows Netlify Database setup completed"), plus a 401 failure playbook, a schema-change workflow with a review step, and a Common mistakes checklist — clear sequences with feedback loops for the database operations the scoring notes flag.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The body keeps core workflows and critical rules inline while pushing deep detail (full migration workflow, full CLI reference, footguns, legacy coexistence, provider-switch import) into six well-signaled, one-level-deep reference files that all exist under references/, with a described References section at the end.

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 well-crafted: third-person voice, an explicit "Use when" trigger, a concrete list of capabilities, and an explicit distinction from Blobs. It satisfies every dimension at the top anchor.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

"Covers provisioning via @netlify/database, Drizzle ORM (@beta) setup, migrations, preview branching, and safe production data handling" lists multiple concrete, distinct capabilities rather than vague language, matching the anchor for listing several specific actions.

3 / 3

Completeness

It answers what ("Guide for using Netlify Database... Covers provisioning...") and when with an explicit "Use when a project needs any kind of dynamic, structured, or relational data" trigger, satisfying the both-what-and-when anchor.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

"Use when a project needs any kind of dynamic, structured, or relational data" plus "managed Postgres" and "database" give good coverage of natural phrasings a user would actually say when they need this skill.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

"Netlify Database — the GA managed Postgres product" is a clear niche, and "Blobs is only for file/asset storage — any dynamic data belongs in the database" explicitly disambiguates it from the sibling Blobs skill, 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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