lh-data-modeling SKILL.md skillA

lh-data-modeling from jrodrigopuca/local-agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add jrodrigopuca/local-agents/lh-data-modeling@v1.1

Pins v1.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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SKILL.md skill
Repository
jrodrigopuca/local-agents
Path
dba/skills/lh-data-modeling/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
v1.1, committed Oct 14, 2026
Size
4,047 bytes
Repository stars
2
License
Apache-2.0

Designing schemas that survive real data: entities, keys, constraints, normalization and when to break it, and modelling access alongside structure. Trigger: load when designing a new schema, reviewing a proposed table or ORM model, or when an existing model keeps producing awkward queries.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

## Critical Patterns

### 1. Model the questions, not just the nouns

Entities tell you what exists; the queries tell you what the model has to make
cheap. Before drawing tables, write down the handful of questions the system
will ask constantly — "the last 20 orders for this user, newest first", "every
unpaid invoice past due" — because those determine keys, sort order, and which
columns need to live together. A model designed from the entity diagram alone
is a model whose access paths are an accident.

### 2. Constraints are documentation the database enforces

A foreign key says "this cannot point at nothing" in a way that survives a
migration script, a second service, and a manual fix at 2am. NOT NULL, UNIQUE
and CHECK say what is true about the domain — and unlike a comment or a
validation in one codebase, they stay true. Push every rule you can into the
schema: what you leave in application code only holds while that code is the
only writer, which is never permanently true.

### 3. Normalize until it hurts, denormalize until it works

Start normalized: one fact in one place, so an update is one write and cannot
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add jrodrigopuca/local-agents/lh-data-modeling@sha256:3e6dc97a33d21b70

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 14, 2026.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4047 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

jrodrigopuca/local-agents · 2 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7dhbz5xcvcasi7qs
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jrodrigopuca/local-agents/lh-data-modeling
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3e6dc97a33d21b70e9d45c5f3b42b22fb98fe73196df1854cb8ad9ff8c89e96d

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