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database tooling for ai agents
SHOW HN2026
13points
7comments
#2,589of 4,366 in 2026
Top 60%of 2026 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
2 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Design: 2 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Read-only by design is the right constraint for agent tooling
From 3 comments
Read-only by design is a smart constraint for agent tooling — eliminates a whole class of "oops the LLM dropped my table" failure modes. Curious about a couple things: how do you…
saltpath on HNThis is really nicely, read only is the right way to start
petervandijck on HNFocusing on read-only tools as the default is the right architectural move for LLMs. I noticed you're using quote_ident() for escaping identifiers, are you planning to add…
nadav_tal on HN
column_values tool addresses agents guessing enum and value casing
From 1 comment
The column_values tool solves a surprisingly annoying problem. Agents confidently writing WHERE status = 'active' when the real value is 'ACTIVE' or 'enabled' causes a lot of…
kiyeonjeon on HN
Requests
Schema whitelisting to hide internal or system tables from the agent
From 1 comment
Focusing on read-only tools as the default is the right architectural move for LLMs. I noticed you're using quote_ident() for escaping identifiers, are you planning to add…
nadav_tal on HN
Cost guardrails against expensive full scans on large tables
From 1 comment
Read-only by design is a smart constraint for agent tooling — eliminates a whole class of "oops the LLM dropped my table" failure modes. Curious about a couple things: how do you…
saltpath on HN
Questions
How schema introspection works and whether a config step is needed
From 1 comment
Read-only by design is a smart constraint for agent tooling — eliminates a whole class of "oops the LLM dropped my table" failure modes. Curious about a couple things: how do you…
saltpath on HN