Backend Queries Agent Skill
Write secure, optimized database queries using parameterized statements, eager loading, proper indexing, and transaction management. Use this skill when writing database queries, implementing data fetching logic, optimizing query performance, preventing SQL injection, handling N+1 query problems, using ORMs or query builders, implementing caching strategies, or managing database transactions. Apply when working with SQL queries, ORM query methods, database repository patterns, or any code that retrieves or manipulates data from databases.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/ComeOnOliver/skillshub --skill backend-queriesOther skills for the same job
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How to use it
Take comeonoliver/skillshub-backend-queries from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.