| name | supabase |
| description | Run Supabase Management API SQL for persistent data tasks such as querying records, applying schema changes, managing policies, and handling storage metadata. Use when requests involve Supabase database CRUD, migrations, or production-like data inspection. |
| compatibility | Requires bash, curl, and jq, plus network access to the Supabase management API. |
| metadata | {"author":"jawwadfirdousi","version":"1.0","priority":"critical"} |
Supabase
Run SQL against a Supabase project through the management API: querying data,
schema changes (DDL), policies (RLS), storage metadata, and migrations. SQL runs
with management API privileges, so treat it as admin-level database access.
Everything goes through one script, scripts/supabase.sh, with three commands:
env — manage connection environments (stored in environments.json)
sql — run a SQL string
sql-file — run SQL from a file
Environments
Each environment is a named entry in environments.json (gitignored, chmod 600)
holding a url and an optional access_token. Manage them with the env
subcommands:
scripts/supabase.sh env list
scripts/supabase.sh env add dev --url https://<dev-ref>.supabase.co --access-token sbp_...
scripts/supabase.sh env add prod --url https://<prod-ref>.supabase.co --description "Production"
scripts/supabase.sh env update dev --url https://<new-ref>.supabase.co --access-token sbp_...
scripts/supabase.sh env get dev
scripts/supabase.sh env get dev --format json
scripts/supabase.sh env get dev --format export
scripts/supabase.sh env remove prod
scripts/supabase.sh env check
Rules the script enforces:
env add requires --url; the env name must be unique.
env remove is refused on the last remaining env.
- The access token is a secret. If an env has none stored, the shell
SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN is used instead.
environments.json is read from the skill root, or
~/.config/claude/supabase-environments.json if that is where it already exists.
If the script reports no environments configured or SUPABASE_URL not set, the
user has not finished setup: run env add to create the first env, or point them
at the README.
Selecting an environment
Pick the environment per command with --env <name>. Resolution order:
1) --env <name> set -> use that env from environments.json
2) SUPABASE_URL + TOKEN exported -> use those exported values
3) exactly one env configured -> use it (--env optional)
4) multiple envs, none named -> error: pass --env <name>
When the user names an environment ("in prod", "on dev"), pass --env <name>. If
multiple envs exist and the user did not name one, ask which to use before running.
Running SQL
scripts/supabase.sh sql --env dev "SELECT * FROM users LIMIT 5"
scripts/supabase.sh sql --env prod "SELECT count(*) FROM users"
scripts/supabase.sh sql --env dev "INSERT INTO users (name, email) VALUES ('Alice', 'alice@test.com')"
scripts/supabase.sh sql-file --env dev ./migrations/001_init.sql
- Quote the SQL. Escape inner double quotes (e.g. policy names:
\"items_read_own\").
sql sends the whole string as one query, so multiple ;-separated statements
run together.
- SQL that contains
$ — dollar-quoted function/trigger bodies ($$ … $$) or
positional params ($1) — must go through sql-file. In a double-quoted sql
argument the shell expands $$ (to its PID) and $1, corrupting the statement.
File contents are sent literally, so sql-file is safe.
Reading the output
Output is the raw management API JSON, piped through jq:
- A successful query returns its result as JSON (an array of row objects for
SELECT).
- A rejected query returns an object with a
message field, e.g.
{"message": "syntax error at or near ..."}. Detect failure by checking for a
lone message key — the HTTP call (and exit code) usually still succeeds even
when the SQL is rejected.
Safety
These commands run with management API (admin) privileges, so a bad statement can
drop data or break a live project. Before running:
- Confirm destructive statements with the user —
DROP, TRUNCATE, and any
DELETE/UPDATE without a WHERE clause — especially against a production env.
- Confirm the target env for writes. If multiple envs are configured and the
request is a write or DDL, verify which env (
--env <name>) before running; do
not let a write fall back to an auto-selected env.
- Explore read-only first. Prefer a
SELECT ... LIMIT to inspect data and
schema before mutating it.
- Make migrations atomic. Wrap multi-step changes in
BEGIN; ... COMMIT; (via
sql-file) so a mid-way failure rolls back. Note CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY
cannot run inside a transaction — run it as a standalone statement.
- Make migrations re-runnable. Prefer
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS,
CREATE OR REPLACE, ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS, and DROP ... IF EXISTS.
SQL reference
For ready-made examples covering DDL, indexes, enum types, views, functions/RPC,
triggers, RLS, data patterns (upsert, JSONB), pgvector similarity search, storage,
and schema introspection, see references/sql-cookbook.md.