Supabase Schema from Requirements

Overview

Translate business requirements into a production-ready Postgres schema inside Supabase. This skill covers the full path from specification document to applied migration: entity extraction, table creation with proper data types and constraints, Row Level Security policies, performance indexes, timestamp triggers, and TypeScript type generation. It is the highest-leverage activity in the early stages of any Supabase project because every downstream feature (auth, storage, realtime, edge functions) depends on well-designed tables.

Prerequisites

• Supabase CLI installed (npm install -g supabase) and project linked (supabase link)
• @supabase/supabase-js v2+ installed in the project
• Business requirements, PRD, or specification document identifying entities and access rules
• Local Supabase running (supabase start) or a linked remote project

Instructions

Step 1: Parse Requirements and Create Migration

Read the requirements document and extract entities, attributes, relationships, and access control rules. Map each entity to a Postgres table.

Entity extraction example (project management app):