MariaDB Skills

MariaDB’s own team maintains this set of eight focused SKILL.md briefings, built specifically to close the gap between what a coding agent assumes about MySQL and what’s actually true of MariaDB. mysql-to-mariadb and oracle-to-mariadb handle migration-specific pitfalls, mariadb-features covers capabilities without a MySQL equivalent (system versioning, Galera clustering), and mariadb-query-optimization and mariadb-replication-and-ha go deep on diagnosis and high-availability setup respectively.

Two entries stand out for less common use cases: mariadb-system-versioned-tables documents the automatic row-history functionality, and mariadb-vector covers native vector support for AI-adjacent workloads — a feature an agent trained mostly on MySQL patterns would have no reason to know exists. An eighth skill, mariadb-mcp, bridges into Model Context Protocol database connections for agents that want live query access alongside the static guidance.

Installation is a one-liner (npx skills add mariadb/skills) or a manual copy of individual SKILL.md files into ~/.claude/skills/<skill-name>/; skills then activate automatically whenever a relevant MariaDB topic comes up, with no explicit invocation required.