/sota-databases
State-of-the-art database engineering rules (2026) for designing, building, and auditing data layers. Covers engine selection, schema modeling, migrations, query and index craft, transactions and concurrency, reliability and scale, security, and vector/AI workloads. Use when
$ npx -y skills add martinholovsky/SOTA-skills --skill sota-databases --agent claude-codeHow it fires
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/sota-databases
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State-of-the-art database engineering rules (2026) for designing, building, and auditing data layers. Covers engine selection, schema modeling, migrations, query and index craft, transactions and concurrency, reliability and scale, security, and vector/AI workloads. Use when
Make your AI coding assistant build and audit like your most senior engineer. Your assistant is brilliant — it just doesn't know your standards, and it forgets the ones it does know as the task grows long.
Repo: martinholovsky/SOTA-skills
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