Database Scout

Database Scout is a Data skill for Claude Code, published by zebbern in claude-code-guide.

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Install Database Scout

Copy Database Scout 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/zebbern/claude-code-guide/tree/main/skills/database-scout ~/.claude/skills/database-scout

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/zebbern/claude-code-guide.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/database-scout/SKILL.md in zebbern/claude-code-guide
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/database-scout
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Data — 668 skills

What Database Scout does

Database Scout explores SQLite and PostgreSQL databases read-only: lists tables, inspects schemas, previews data, generates Mermaid ER diagrams, and runs safe SELECT queries. Use it when asked to inspect a database structure or query data without modifying it.

Database Scout is cataloged under Data on DirSkills. Database Scout comes from a repository tagged ai, ai-agent, ai-agent-tools, anthropic-claude and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

database-scout

Read-only exploration tool for SQLite / PostgreSQL databases — inspect table schemas, preview data, generate ER diagrams, and run safe queries.

Feature Overview

Feature	Description
List all tables	Show tables and views in the database, with row counts
Inspect table schema	Column names, types, constraints (PK/FK/NOT NULL), indexes, defaults
Data preview	View the first N rows of a table
ER diagram generation	Output Mermaid erDiagram syntax, ready to render
Safe read-only queries	Only SELECT/WITH/EXPLAIN allowed; write operations are blocked

Security Mechanisms

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

Frequently asked about Database Scout

What else does zebbern publish alongside Database Scout?
Database Scout is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from zebbern/claude-code-guide, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Fuzzing for Bug Bounty, API Shape Explorer and AWS Penetration Testing. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Database Scout does, and is maintained by zebbern in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the zebbern/claude-code-guide page.
How does Database Scout compare to other Data skills?
Database Scout ranks #189 by stars among the 668 Data skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark Methodology, Jupyter Notebook and Solana. 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 Scout against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.