Improves the repo's agent guidance: distills the always-required `studio-best-practices` skill into `apps/studio/CLAUDE.md`, tunes every skill description for reliable triggering, and mechanically enforces the generated-files rule. Grounded in Anthropic's official CLAUDE.md guidance (see justifications below). ## The main change: Studio CLAUDE.md gets a Code style section **Why:** `studio-best-practices` was a skill that instructed agents to *always* load it before any Studio code work. Anthropic's guidance draws the line as: sometimes-relevant guidance → skill (loaded on demand); always-relevant guidance → CLAUDE.md. A skill that must always load has failed the test for being a skill — it costs a tool-call round trip and, worse, silently does nothing in sessions that forget to load it. Since `apps/studio/CLAUDE.md` is lazy-loaded only when an agent touches Studio files, inlining is properly scoped: non-Studio sessions never pay for it. **Why not verbatim:** the skill was 175 lines, mostly ❌/✅ worked examples teaching practices models already know. Inlining it whole would push the file past the ~200-line point where Anthropic warns rules start getting lost. Instead each section was distilled to the rule it exists to enforce — e.g. the loading/error/success section kept its code block because the *shape* (early returns at top level, flat `&&` chains inline) is the prescription, and prose loses it. **The framing that makes the generic rules earn their place:** models default to matching surrounding code, and not all existing Studio code follows these practices. The section opens with "older Studio code predates some of these conventions — follow them rather than mirroring nearby legacy patterns," which converts otherwise-redundant React advice into an explicit instruction to break from local precedent. One rule was added that the old skill lacked: `useEffect` is for external-system sync only (~364 Studio files contain effects, many in patterns we don't want copied). **Changed:** - `apps/studio/CLAUDE.md` — new Code style section (84 lines total, within budget); skills table no longer mandates a pre-load - `.claude/CLAUDE.md` — dropped `pnpm install` from commands (guessable; Anthropic's test: "would removing this cause mistakes?") **Removed:** - `.claude/skills/studio-best-practices/` — fully absorbed; its cross-references to other skills were already covered by the skills routing table ## Skill description tuning Descriptions are the only signal an agent sees before deciding to load a skill, and the observed failure mode is under-triggering on tasks that don't name the skill. Nine descriptions reworded: front-loaded matchable keywords, added incidental-trigger cases (e.g. a new feature that adds copy is a `copywriting` moment), and disambiguated overlaps (`vitest` is now the API reference deferring to `studio-testing` for strategy). The `safe-sql-execution` rewrite was additionally validated with skill-creator's trigger-eval loop against 20 realistic queries: held-out test accuracy 54% → 71%, with zero false triggers across all iterations. (`vitest` shows under `.agents/` because `.claude/skills/vitest` symlinks there.) ## Generated-files enforcement **Added:** `permissions.deny` rules in `.claude/settings.json` for the six generated-file globs the root CLAUDE.md already lists. CLAUDE.md prose is advisory; permission rules are mechanical and also gate sandboxed Bash writes. (Verified live: the rule blocked an unintended regeneration of `database-types.ts` during testing.) ## To test - CI: prettier + typos checks pass (docs-only + settings change, no app code) - In a fresh Claude Code session in the repo: ask it to edit `apps/studio/routeTree.gen.ts` — should be denied by the new permission rule - Ask it to do any Studio UI task — it should pick up the Code style rules from `apps/studio/CLAUDE.md` without loading a best-practices skill <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Documentation** * Updated development guidance for testing, copywriting, SQL safety, telemetry, queries, error handling, and toolbar reviews. * Restructured Vitest references into clearer tables and improved formatting across several guides. * Added Studio code-style conventions and clarified when task-specific guidance should be applied. * Removed outdated Studio best-practices guidance. * **Chores** * Added safeguards preventing edits to generated and protected files. * Simplified the documented development command sequence. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Co-authored-by: Alaister Young <10985857+alaister@users.noreply.github.com>
Supabase Studio
A dashboard for managing your self-hosted Supabase project, and used on our hosted platform. Built with:
What's included
Studio is designed to work with existing deployments - either the local hosted, docker setup, or our CLI. It is not intended for managing the deployment and administration of projects - that's out of scope.
As such, the features exposed on Studio for existing deployments are limited to those which manage your database:
- Table & SQL editors
- Saved queries are unavailable
- Database management
- Policies, roles, extensions, replication
- API documentation
Managing Project Settings
Project settings are managed outside of the Dashboard. If you use docker compose, you should manage the settings in your docker-compose file. If you're deploying Supabase to your own cloud, you should store your secrets and env vars in a vault or secrets manager.
How to contribute?
- Branch from
masterand name your branches with the following structure{type}/{branch_name}- Type:
chore | fix | feature - The branch name is arbitrary — just make sure it summarizes the work.
- Type:
- When you send a PR to
master, it will automatically tag members of the frontend team for review. - Review the contributing checklists to help test your feature before sending a PR.
- The Dashboard is under active development. You should run
git pullfrequently to make sure you're up to date.
Developer Quickstart
Note
Supabase internal use: To develop on Studio locally with the backend services, see the instructions in the internal
infrastructurerepo.
# You'll need to be on Node v20
# in /studio
## For external contributors
pnpm install # install dependencies
pnpm run dev # start dev server
## For internal contributors
## First clone the private supabase/platform repo and follow instructions for setting up mise
mise studio # Run from supabase/platform alongside `mise infra`
## For all
pnpm run test # run tests
pnpm run test -- --watch # run tests in watch mode
Running within a self-hosted environment
Follow the self-hosting guide to get started.
cd ..
cd docker
docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f ./dev/docker-compose.dev.yml up
Once you've got that set up, update .env in the studio folder with the corresponding values.
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=
SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=
SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY=
Then run the following commands to install dependencies and start the dashboard.
npm install
npm run dev
If you would like to configure different defaults for "Default Organization" and "Default Project", you will need to update the .env in the studio folder with the corresponding values.
DEFAULT_ORGANIZATION_NAME=
DEFAULT_PROJECT_NAME=