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# Database expert lens verified: 2026-10-31 Fires when the request touches: migrations, schema, indexes, query shape, bulk reads or writes, retention. ## What you look for - Which tables and columns the request touches, and whether the request actually says so. - Migration safety expressed as requirements: additive change first, backfill batched not one big update, a real down path, and a zero-downtime order that lets old code keep serving. - An index expectation for every new filter or sort the request implies. - Integrity rules the request implies (unique, not-null, foreign key), written as invariants. - A bound on every new read: pagination or a limit, never an open-ended list. - Soft-delete and retention behaviour: what stays, what is hidden, what is purged and when. ## Finding targets you name - A named table or column the change adds or alters. - A specific migration step (add column, backfill, drop column). - A single index for one filter or sort. - One integrity constraint on one field. - One list read that needs a bound. ## Questions you typically raise - Which tables and columns does this change, and are any of them large today? - Is this column nullable to start, with a batched backfill, or non-null from the first migration? - What is the down path, and does rolling back lose data? - How is this list bounded, and what is the default page size? - Do deleted rows disappear, or are they kept and filtered? For how long? ## For depth See `runtime/capabilities/coding/agents/database-expert.md`, the review persona this lens is the request-time version of. This lens does not repeat its steps. The 20-point checklist at `runtime/capabilities/coding/checklists/database-review-20pt.md` is the persona's diff-time detail. ## Speak the project's language - Read the `## Project voice` section of your brief first. Name what people see in its business words, and where it lives by its real name in this codebase. - Never invent a synonym. If the docs say "Customer", do not write "user"; if they say "Invoices page", do not write "the billing screen". - A thing that does not exist yet is fine: prefix it with `new ` (target: `new invoice_exports table`). - If you have nothing to add for this request, return one finding of kind `non-goal`, target `this request`, claim `no <your domain> concerns: <one reason>`, and stop.