Dev Supabase

Supabase (pointer)

Supabase publishes the canonical agent skills at supabase/agent-skills — maintained by the Supabase team, in sync with current API (Auth, DB, Edge Functions, Realtime, Storage). The repo ships two skills that stay current with every API release; the prior foundation skill (224 lines) drifted on each Supabase version.

Delegate to the vendor skills

# Vendor publishes via marketplace (verify on their README):
claude plugin install supabase@supabase

# Fallback — clone and symlink both skills:
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/supabase/agent-skills ~/dev/vendor-skills/supabase
ln -s ~/dev/vendor-skills/supabase/skills/supabase ./.claude/skills/supabase
ln -s ~/dev/vendor-skills/supabase/skills/supabase-postgres-best-practices \
      ./.claude/skills/supabase-postgres-best-practices

• supabase — Auth, DB, Edge Functions, Realtime, Storage with current API patterns.
• supabase-postgres-best-practices — 30 rules across 8 categories (indexing, RLS perf, schema design, pg_* extensions).

Recipe entry: [docs/recipes/recommended-vendor-skills.md](../../../docs/recipes/recommended-vendor-skills.md) §"Supabase — supabase/agent-skills". Reduction rationale: [specs/foundation-positioning-review/spec.md](../../../specs/foundation-positioning-review/spec.md) Wave 1.

Foundation-unique angle preserved: cross-cutting discipline

The vendor covers the Supabase API surface. The foundation enforces version-agnostic conventions that survive across releases:

• Auth: Supabase Auth is one option among many — cross-ref the dev-auth skill for framework-agnostic patterns (sessions, OAuth, magic links) before deciding on Supabase-specific flows.
• ORM interop: Prisma operates against the same Postgres, and Supabase RLS coexists with Prisma queries — cross-ref the dev-prisma skill.
• General Postgres: the vendor's supabase-postgres-best-practices skill is useful for any Postgres project, not just Supabase-managed — cross-ref the ops-database skill.
• Security: RLS on every public table; never disable it to "make a query work" — cross-ref .claude/rules/security.md.

Foundation rules preserved

• YOU MUST enable Row Level Security on every public-schema table before exposing it via PostgREST. No exceptions.
• YOU MUST use the Supavisor pooler (port 6543) for serverless / edge runtimes. Direct connections (5432) exhaust limits.
• NEVER SELECT * in production queries — specify columns (security + perf + payload size).
• YOU MUST store monetary amounts as INTEGER cents, never FLOAT / NUMERIC rounded — avoids drift footgun.
• YOU MUST index every foreign key and every column in frequent WHERE clauses.
• YOU MUST use cursor-based pagination (gt('created_at', ...)) for large tables, never range() / OFFSET (slow scan).
• NEVER commit .env with SUPABASE_URL / service-role key. Always .env.example with placeholders.
• NEVER expose the service_role key client-side — it bypasses RLS. Use it only in server-side code (Edge Functions, API routes).

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: christopherlouet
• Source: christopherlouet/claude-base
• License: MIT
• Homepage: https://christopherlouet.github.io/claude-base/

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.