# planetscale-traffic-control-recommendations

This skill drafts a recommendation plan for PlanetScale Postgres Traffic Control budgets and rules, and applies nothing without approval.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1700 installs · ★ 136
- Author: planetscale
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/planetscale/skills/tree/HEAD/planetscale-traffic-control-recommendations/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/planetscale-traffic-control-recommendations

## What it does

The skill runs against PlanetScale Postgres. It inspects current budgets and rules, query patterns in Insights, query tags, application routes and jobs, plus known critical and known expensive paths. From that it proposes which traffic slices to bound: exports, reports, search endpoints, admin dashboards, backfills, workers and queues, third-party webhooks, BI tools, agent-generated reads, and high-frequency polling.

Rollout order is fixed. Start in `warn`, watch the warnings and false positives, tune tags and thresholds, and move to `enforce` only with explicit approval and an emergency rollback path. If query tags are missing, the skill recommends tagging first, unless a fingerprint rule is clearly needed for an immediate known offender. One budget per materially different traffic class — combining unrelated traffic hides who is consuming the budget.

Each proposal spells out the budget name, target branch, mode, matched slice, rule type, limit rationale, the Insights queries behind it, safety risk, and a test and rollback plan. The skill also states the limits plainly: Traffic Control does not replace query tuning, is not a web application firewall, and does not replace application-level rate limits. Bad tags create bad rules, and `enforce` can reject queries and change how your app behaves — worth checking your tags before you flip it on.

## Requirements
- Works with: PostgreSQL

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add planetscale/skills --skill planetscale-traffic-control-recommendations -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add planetscale/skills --skill planetscale-traffic-control-recommendations -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add planetscale/skills --skill planetscale-traffic-control-recommendations -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install planetscale/skills planetscale-traffic-control-recommendations
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/planetscale-traffic-control-recommendations/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add planetscale/skills --skill planetscale-traffic-control-recommendations -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/planetscale/skills --path planetscale-traffic-control-recommendations
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add planetscale/skills --skill planetscale-traffic-control-recommendations -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/planetscale/skills/tree/HEAD/planetscale-traffic-control-recommendations/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- shield critical traffic from runaway queries
- carve out budgets for agent and MCP queries
- keep backfills and retries from starving interactive traffic
- isolate unpredictable third-party integration behavior
- write an observe-and-rollback plan before switching to enforce

## Example prompts
- Draft a Traffic Control budget plan for PlanetScale Postgres, don't apply anything
- Propose rules for traffic tagged source=agent and feature=export
- Which fingerprint rules do we need for the expensive queries in Insights?

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: planetscale-traffic-control-recommendations
description: Build a safe recommendation plan for PlanetScale Postgres Database Traffic Control budgets and rules without applying them.
---

# Database Traffic Control recommendations

## Purpose

For PlanetScale Postgres, recommend Traffic Control budgets and rules that protect critical traffic from runaway queries, traffic spikes, batch jobs, agents, and third-party integrations. Do not create or change budgets without approval.

## Preconditions

Run this skill only for PlanetScale Postgres.

Before recommending rules, inspect:

- Current budgets and rules.
- Insights query patterns.
- Current query tags.
- Application routes and jobs.
- Known critical paths.
- Known expensive non-critical paths.
- Active incidents or recent anomalies.

If query tags are missing, recommend tagging first unless a fingerprint-specific rule is clearly needed for an immediate known offender.

## Candidate traffic slices

Look for:

- Exports.
- Reports.
- Search endpoints.
- Admin dashboards.
- Backfills.
- Workers and queues.
- Webhooks from third-party systems.
- BI tools.
- Agent-generated read queries.
- High-frequency polling.
- Known expensive query fingerprints.
- Customer-triggered endpoints with high variance.

## Budget modes

Recommend in this order:

1. `warn` mode first for normal rollout.
2. Observe warnings and false positives.
3. Tune tags, fingerprints, and thresholds.
4. Move to `enforce` only with explicit approval and an emergency rollback path.

Do not recommend starting directly in `enforce` unless there is an active incident and the operator explicitly asks for emergency mitigation.

## Rule strategy

Prefer tag-based rules when tags are stable and bounded:

- `source=agent`
- `source=bi`
- `feature=export`
- `feature=report`
- `route=/admin/reports`
- `job=DailyBackfill`
```
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