# planetscale-vitess-safety-review

> Claude/Codex skill by [@planetscale](https://omgskills.com/library/planetscale/index.md) · 134 stars · Updated 2026-10-16

Review a PlanetScale Vitess database for safe migrations, deploy requests, schema recommendations, Insights, webhooks, and operational safety.

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/planetscale/skills /tmp/skills && ln -s /tmp/skills/planetscale-vitess-safety-review ~/.claude/skills/planetscale-vitess-safety-review
```

## From README

Vitess safety review Purpose Recommend best practices for a PlanetScale Vitess database. Focus on production safety, deployability, observability, and agent-safe automation. Do not apply any changes. Primary safety features to evaluate Safe migrations Check whether safe migrations are enabled on production and staging branches. Recommend enabling safe migrations when: The branch receives production traffic. The team runs DDL outside deploy requests. There is no protected branch workflow. The application is expected to evolve schema frequently. Explain the tradeoff: safe migrations reject direct DDL on protected branches and force schema changes through deploy requests. That is a feature, but it can break teams relying on direct production DDL. Treat enablement as a behavior-changing change requiring approval. Deploy requests Check: Whether deploy requests are used for schema changes. Whether administrator approval is required.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/planetscale/skills/planetscale-vitess-safety-review/
- GitHub: https://github.com/planetscale/skills
- Author: [@planetscale](https://omgskills.com/library/planetscale/index.md)

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