Database Discovery

by rand

Database Discovery is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by rand in cc-polymath.

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Install Database Discovery

Copy Database Discovery into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/rand/cc-polymath/tree/main/skills/discover-database ~/.claude/skills/discover-database

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/rand/cc-polymath.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/discover-database/SKILL.md in rand/cc-polymath
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/discover-database
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3475 skills

What Database Discovery does

Database Discovery activates when working on SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, schema design, migrations, query tuning, pooling, or ORM patterns. It routes you to the right database skill for design, optimization, selection, or implementation tasks.

Database Discovery is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Database Discovery comes from a repository tagged ai, claude-code and skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Database Skills Discovery

Provides automatic access to comprehensive database design, optimization, and implementation skills.

When This Skill Activates

This skill auto-activates when you're working with:

SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis)
Database schema design and modeling
Query optimization and performance tuning
Database migrations and schema evolution
Connection pooling configuration
ORM usage and patterns
Database selection and architecture decisions
caching
cache
Redis
CDN
HTTP caching
cache invalidation
performance
Service Workers

Available Skills

Quick Reference

The Database category contains 19 skills across 2 subcategories:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Database Discovery

What else does rand publish alongside Database Discovery?
Database Discovery is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rand/cc-polymath, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Discovery, Agentic Workflow Discovery and Anti-Slop. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Database Discovery does, and is maintained by rand in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rand/cc-polymath page.
How does Database Discovery compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Database Discovery ranks #3174 by stars among the 3475 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Database Discovery against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.