schema-exploration
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Explore an existing PostgreSQL database before answering questions about its data or writing SQL. Use this skill whenever a user asks for a query or a data-backed answer against an unfamiliar schema (counts, missing or failed records, recent changes), asks where a business concept lives, or asks how tables, joins, views, routines, triggers, RLS, or extensions work. Find the relevant objects with read-only pg_catalog queries, then request approval before inspecting data-derived statistics or rows. Not a schema-design or migration guide.
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