generating-database-documentation

## Overview This skill empowers Claude to create detailed database documentation from existing database schemas. It leverages the database-documentation-gen plugin to automate the process, saving time and ensuring consistency. The generated documentation includes ERD diagrams, table relationships, and detailed information about database objects. ## How It Works 1. **Activation**: Claude recognizes the user's request for database documentation, ERD diagrams, or a data dictionary, triggering the database-documentation-gen plugin. 2. **Schema Analysis**: The plugin connects to the specified database and analyzes its schema, extracting information about tables, columns, relationships, indexes, triggers, and stored procedures. 3. **Documentation Generation**: The plugin generates comprehensive documentation in various formats, including ERD diagrams, data dictionaries, and interactive HTML documentation. ## When to Use This Skill This skill activates when you need to: - Generate documentation for a new or existing database. - Create ERD diagrams for architectural reviews. - Produce a data dictionary for data governance purposes. - Onboard new team members to a database project. ## Examples ### Example 1: Documenting an Existing Database User request: "Generate database documentation for the 'users' database." The skill will: 1. Activate the database-documentation-gen plugin. 2. Connect to the 'users' database and analyze its schema. 3. Generate comprehensive documentation...