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20 Cloud SQL Basics alternatives

Cloud SQL Basics: Google's official Cloud SQL skill — create and connect MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server instances with the right gcloud commands, Auth Proxy setup, HA and backup model. 20 agent skills do similar work, most sharing Database, Google Cloud and PostgreSQL, ranked by how much they have in common with Cloud SQL Basics.

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  1. by PlanetScale

    The master skill in PlanetScale's official pack: runs a full read-only best-practices assessment of a database or org, then produces one evidence-backed report.

    Also: Database, MySQL, PostgreSQL

  2. by Google

    Google's official AlloyDB for PostgreSQL skill — cluster and instance lifecycle from gcloud, plus hard rules on private connectivity, IAM database auth and backup behaviour.

    Also: Database, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL

  3. by PlanetScale

    How to drive the PlanetScale CLI non-interactively: --format json everywhere, auth check before anything else, pscale sql instead of pscale shell, correct flag placement.

    Also: Database, MySQL

  4. by Netlify

    Netlify's official skill for zero-config managed Postgres — querying from Functions, Drizzle setup, migrations and per-preview database branches.

    Also: Database, PostgreSQL

  5. by Supabase

    Supabase's official skill covering Database, Auth, Edge Functions, Realtime, Storage, Vectors, Cron and Queues — with a hard rule to verify against the live changelog before writing code.

    Also: Database, PostgreSQL

  6. by Supabase

    Supabase's official Postgres skill — eight rule categories ranked by impact, each with wrong-vs-right SQL and EXPLAIN output, for schema, RLS, indexing and query work on Postgres anywhere.

    Also: Database, PostgreSQL

  7. by Neon

    Neon's official agent skill for serverless Postgres — connection strings and drivers, pooled vs direct connections, branching, autoscaling, scale-to-zero, read replicas and logical replication.

    Also: Database, PostgreSQL

  8. by Google Cloud

    Google's official Spanner skill: provision instances, design primary keys that do not hotspot, write SQL and client-library code, and diagnose slow queries — with DDL and DML gated behind your approval.

    Also: Database, Google Cloud

  9. by Google Cloud

    Google's official skill for driving the gcloud CLI safely from an agent: validate every command against its own help text, cap the output, and refuse the operations that should never run unattended.

    Also: Google Cloud

  10. by Google

    Google's official Well-Architected Framework skill for the security pillar — turns an architecture review into a structured interview, gap analysis and prioritised recommendations.

    Also: Google Cloud

  11. by Google

    Google's official GKE skill — when Autopilot beats Standard, Workload Identity instead of JSON keys, Autopilot's 250m CPU rounding, and private-cluster flags.

    Also: Google Cloud

  12. by Google

    Google's official Cloud Run skill — deploy services, jobs and worker pools correctly, with the IAM roles, port contract and gotchas that break first deployments.

    Also: Google Cloud

  13. by Google

    Google's official BigQuery skill — datasets, tables, jobs and SQL from the bq CLI, plus the reference set for IAM, Terraform, change history and continuous queries.

    Also: Google Cloud

  14. by Google Cloud

    Google's official skill for calling Gemini on Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI) with the Gen AI SDK — Python, JS/TS, Go, Java and C#, plus tools, multimodal input and the Live API.

    Also: Google Cloud

  15. by Google Cloud

    Google's official skill for getting Google Cloud authentication right — human identities, service accounts, Application Default Credentials, and the failure modes agents usually hit.

    Also: Google Cloud

  16. by Convex

    Convex's official top-level agent skill — routes an agent to the right convex-* skill for the task and to a served capability catalogue that stays current without a reinstall.

    Also: Database

  17. by Redis, Inc.

    Redis' own guidance for FT.CREATE schema design, FT.SEARCH / FT.AGGREGATE / FT.HYBRID, HNSW vector similarity and RAG retrieval pipelines.

    Also: Database

  18. by Better Auth

    The reference an agent needs to configure Better Auth correctly: adapters, session strategy, hooks, plugins, type safety and the gotchas that bite in production.

    Also: Database

  19. by Tinybird

    Tinybird's own datafile and SQL rules for coding agents — datasources, pipes, endpoints, materialized views, deduplication and query optimisation.

    Also: Database

  20. by PlanetScale

    PlanetScale's approval contract for agents: five operation classes that decide what a database agent may do freely, what needs a named approval, and what it must never do alone.

    Also: Database