nova-schema

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides a comprehensive, safety-first reference and workflow for creating, reading, updating, and deleting NovaDB meta/schema objects (typeRef < 8192). It addresses the risk of accidental infrastructure or UI breakage by prescribing discovery, impact analysis, confirmation, and verification steps before any write or delete operation.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Meta-type catalog: Enumerates all schema meta-types (typeRef < 8192) and their protection levels so consultants and engineers can identify editable targets.
• Discovery & inspection: Step-by-step patterns to list typed instances, inspect objects, find forms that reference attributes, and discover which types use a form.
• Impact analysis: Pre-change checks using index searches, counts, and XML reference checks to list dependent forms, types, and data object counts.
• Safe CRUD workflows: Detailed create, update, and delete procedures that require numeric branch IDs, prohibit editing core objects (ID < 500), handle multi-value attribute merging, and require explicit user confirmation for each write or deletion.
• Use case: Prepare and safely apply an attribute definition update while reporting every dependent form and counting affected data objects before execution.

Quick Start

Use this skill to prepare and execute a careful update to an attribute definition on a named numeric branch with full impact analysis and explicit confirmation.