# convex-advisor

Reads a Convex deployment's 72h insights, root-causes each event in code, and reports fixes ranked by severity.

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- Author: convex
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/convex/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/convex-advisor/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-13
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## What it does

The skill talks to the official Convex MCP server and pulls typed 72h health events: read limit hits (`documentsReadLimit`, `bytesReadLimit`), threshold warnings, and write contention (`occFailedPermanently`, `occRetried`). Every event carries evidence — table name, bytes read, document id, retry count.

From there it opens the flagged function and looks for the mechanism. Read limits usually trace back to `.collect()`, an unindexed `.filter()`, or missing pagination; the repair is an index with `.withIndex`, `.take(n)`, or `.paginate`. Write contention points at read-modify-write hotspots on a shared document, where `@convex-dev/sharded-counter` or a narrower read set helps. Findings go onto the findings bus via `specs/finding.schema.json` so fixers can pick them up.

The `insights` tool only works on cloud dev and prod deployments when you are logged in as a user, and it needs roughly 72 hours of traffic. Previews and deploy-key-scoped contexts get nothing. When there are no events, the skill says so and offers `convex-reviewer` instead of inventing findings. An advisory pass never mutates a deployment and never enables prod mutation flags — that is the whole point.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-advisor -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/convex-advisor/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/convex-advisor/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-advisor -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/convex-advisor/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-advisor -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/convex-advisor/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install convex/agent-skills convex-advisor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/convex-advisor/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-advisor -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/convex/agent-skills --path skills/convex-advisor
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/convex-advisor/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-advisor -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/convex/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/convex-advisor/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- explain why a function keeps hitting read limits
- find a write hotspot on a shared counter
- tell a threshold warning apart from a real limit hit
- tie an insight event to a specific line of code
- hand a finding to a fixer in a shared format

## Example prompts
- read the deployment's 72h insights and root-cause each event in code
- why does messages:list read so much — find the cause and propose a fix
- check write contention in the deployment and tell me what to change

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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# Live-deployment advisor

Static review guesses; the deployment KNOWS. The official Convex MCP ships an `insights` tool with typed 72h health events per function — documentsReadLimit / bytesReadLimit (hard limit hits), documentsReadThreshold / bytesReadThreshold (approaching), occFailedPermanently / occRetried (write contention) — each carrying evidence (table_name, bytes_read, documents_read, occ document id + retry count). The advisor turns each event into a root-caused finding by reading the flagged function's actual code, and emits findings on the findings bus (specs/finding.schema.json) so fixers can be dispatched and launch-readiness can score.

## Workflow

1. GUARD: run deploy-guard step 0-1 — identify + announce the deployment being read. Reading insights/logs on prod is allowed read-only; never enable mutating prod access for an advisory pass.
2. GATHER (deterministic, via the official Convex MCP): `status` → deployment selector; `insights` → the typed 72h events; `tables` → schema + row counts; `functionSpec` → the public/internal surface. The `insights` tool is only available on cloud dev/prod deployments when logged in as a user (not on previews or deploy-key-scoped contexts) and needs ~72h of traffic; if it returns nothing or is unavailable, say so and fall back to offering convex-reviewer — do NOT invent findings.
3. ROOT-CAUSE each insight event by reading the flagged function's code:
   - bytesReadThreshold/Limit or documentsReadThreshold/Limit → look for `.collect()` / unindexed `.filter()` / missing pagination on the named table; the fix is an index + `.withIndex`, `.take(n)`, or `.paginate` (convex-expert patterns), or an aggregate component for counting shapes.
   - occRetried / occFailedPermanently → look for read-modify-write hotspots on the named document (shared counters, status toggles); the fix is @convex-dev/sharded-counter, narrowing the read set, or moving contention to a workpool.
   - repeated failures in `logs` (status: failure) → classify: crash loop in a cron, validator rejections, unhandled error shapes.
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