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Oracle Database Agent Skills

Note

Currently in beta (pre-v1.0), and may see breaking changes until the first stable release (v1.0).

This repository provides a set of agent skills to interact with Oracle Database instances. These skills can be used with various AI agents, including Antigravity, Claude Code and Codex, to manage your databases, execute queries, explore schemas, and troubleshoot issues using natural language prompts.

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Table of Contents

Why Use Oracle Database Agent Skills?

  • Seamless Workflow: Integrates seamlessly into your AI agent's environment. No need to constantly switch contexts for common database tasks.
  • Natural Language Queries: Stop wrestling with complex commands. Explore schemas and query data by describing what you want in plain English.
  • Full Database Insights: Monitor active sessions, analyze query plans, and manage tablespace usage using natural language.
  • Code Generation: Accelerate development by asking your agent to generate data classes and other code snippets based on your table schemas.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have the following:

  • One of these AI agents installed:
  • Access to an Oracle Database instance.
  • Oracle Database permissions:
    • CREATE SESSION for basic connectivity.
    • SELECT privileges on V$ and DBA_ views for monitoring and diagnostics.

Getting Started

Configuration

Please keep these settings handy during the installation process:

  • ORACLE_CONNECTION_STRING: The connection string for your Oracle Database (e.g., host:port/service_name or TNS alias).
  • ORACLE_USERNAME: Your Oracle database username.
  • ORACLE_PASSWORD: Your Oracle database password.
  • ORACLE_WALLET: (Optional) Path to the directory containing your Oracle Wallet files.
  • ORACLE_USE_OCI: (Optional) Set to true to use the OCI (thick client) driver.

Installation & Usage

To start interacting with your database, install the skills for your preferred AI agent, then launch the agent and use natural language to ask questions or perform tasks.

For the latest version, check the releases page.

Antigravity

You can use either of these two agents for Antigravity:

💡 Tip — Migrating from Gemini CLI?
If you previously installed this extension with gemini extensions install, you can convert it to an Antigravity plugin instead of reinstalling from scratch:
  • On first launch of Antigravity CLI, accept the Migration Options prompt to automatically convert your installed Gemini CLI extensions to Antigravity plugins.
  • Or, from your terminal, run:
    agy plugin import gemini
See Migrating from Gemini CLI for details on plugins, context files (GEMINI.md / AGENTS.md), and MCP server config differences.

Antigravity 2.0 (IDE)

1. Clone the Repo:

git clone --branch 0.2.1 https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/oracledb.git

2. Install the skills:

Choose a location for the skills:

  • Global (all workspaces): ~/.gemini/antigravity/skills/
  • Workspace-specific: <workspace-root>/.agents/skills/

Copy the skill folders from the cloned repository's skills/ directory to your chosen location:

cp -R oracledb/skills/* ~/.gemini/antigravity/skills/

3. Set env vars: Set your environment vars as described in the configuration section.

(Tip: Antigravity 2.0 automatically discovers skills in these directories at the start of a session. You can verify they are active by running the /skills command in your active session.)

Antigravity CLI

1. Clone the Repo:

git clone --branch 0.2.1 https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/oracledb.git

2. Install the skills:

Choose a location for the skills:

  • Global (all workspaces): ~/.gemini/antigravity-cli/skills/
  • Workspace-specific: <workspace-root>/.agents/skills/

Copy the skill folders from the cloned repository's skills/ directory to your chosen location:

cp -R oracledb/skills/* ~/.gemini/antigravity-cli/skills/

3. Set env vars: Set your environment vars as described in the configuration section.

(Tip: Antigravity CLI automatically discovers skills in these directories at the start of a session. You can verify they are active by running the /skills command in your active session.)

Claude Code

1. Set env vars: In your terminal, set your environment vars as described in the configuration section.

2. Start the agent:

claude

3. Add the marketplace:

/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/oracledb.git#0.2.1

4. Install the plugin:

/plugin install oracledb@oracledb-marketplace

(Tip: Run /plugin list inside Claude Code to verify the plugin is active, or /reload-plugins if you just installed it.)

Codex

1. Clone the Repo:

git clone --branch 0.2.1 git@github.com:gemini-cli-extensions/oracledb.git

2. Install the plugin:

mkdir -p ~/.codex/plugins
cp -R /absolute/path/to/oracledb ~/.codex/plugins/oracledb

3. Set env vars: Enter your environment vars as described in the configuration section.

4. Create or update marketplace.json: ~/.agents/plugins/marketplace.json

{
  "name": "my-google-data-cloud-marketplace",
  "interface": {
    "displayName": "Google Data Cloud Skills"
  },
  "plugins": [
    {
      "name": "oracledb",
      "source": {
        "source": "local",
        "path": "./plugins/oracledb"
      },
      "policy": {
        "installation": "AVAILABLE",
        "authentication": "ON_INSTALL"
      },
      "category": "Database"
    }
  ]
}

(Tip: Run codex plugin list or use the /plugins interactive menu to verify your installed plugins.)

## Installing using [open agent skills tool](https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills)

You can install skills using the npx skills command.

Run the following command in your terminal to automatically download and register the skills:

npx skills add https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/oracledb/tree/0.2.1

For detailed info check out the Skills npm package.

2. Set env vars: Set your environment vars as described in the configuration section.

Usage Examples

Interact with Oracle Database using natural language:

  • Query Data:
    • "Show me the first 10 rows from the EMPLOYEES table."
    • "What is the total salary by department?"
  • Monitor and Analyze:
    • "List all active sessions."
    • "Explain the execution plan for this query: SELECT * FROM orders WHERE order_id = 100"
    • "What is the tablespace usage?"
  • Object Health:
    • "List all invalid objects in the schema."

Supported Skills

The following skills are available in this repository:

  • Oracle Database Skills - Use these skills to manage and monitor Oracle databases by executing SQL statements, exploring schema metadata, analyzing query performance, monitoring active sessions and resource consumption, and managing storage and object health.

Additional Agent Skills

Find additional skills to support your entire software development lifecycle at github.com/gemini-cli-extensions.

Troubleshooting

Use the debug mode of your agent (e.g., gemini --debug) to enable debugging.

Common issues:

  • "✖ Error during discovery for server: MCP error -32000: Connection closed": The database connection has not been established. Ensure your configuration is set correctly.
  • "✖ MCP ERROR: Error: spawn .../toolbox ENOENT": The Toolbox binary did not download correctly. Ensure you are using the latest version of your agent.
  • "cannot execute binary file": The Toolbox binary did not download correctly. Ensure the correct binary for your OS/Architecture has been downloaded.