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feat(docs): database documentation viewer and DBML export
* feat(docs): add SchemaSnapshot model

* feat(docs): infer relationship cardinality from foreign keys

* fix(docs): resolve foreign keys within the source schema

* feat(docs): convert group hue to sRGB hex for DBML

* feat(docs): add DBML lexical primitives

* feat(docs): render DBML table blocks

* feat(docs): render DBML refs, enums and table groups

* feat(docs): assemble complete DBML documents

* feat(docs): collect schema snapshots with bounded fan-out

* fix(docs): gate FK warning on engine capability and reference synthesized enums

* fix(docs): qualify synthesized enum references in multi-schema output

* test(docs): anchor the multi-schema enum reference assertion

* feat(docs): add snapshot collection route

* feat(docs): add collect_docs_snapshot to DbxBackend

* feat(docs): add dbx dbml command

* test(docs): add live snapshot and DBML verification

Runs collect_snapshot + to_dbml against a real PostgreSQL database
(organon, 47 tables) and asserts structural DBML validity: Project
header, every table present, balanced braces, trailing newline.

* refactor(docs): use sort_by_key for snapshot table ordering

* docs(docs): add database documentation design and implementation plan

Records the Part 1 design (SchemaSnapshot + DBML export) and the plan that
produced it. The plan carries an appendix listing the thirteen assumptions
that proved wrong during execution, so the corrected facts are not re-derived
from the surrounding prose.

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* fix(docs): use native enum names, canonical engine labels, and surface metadata failures

Final review fix wave covering four findings:

- PostgreSQL named enums (e.g. `ConversationStatus`) now keep their own
  type name and synthesized: false, instead of being renamed to
  `{table}_{column}` and losing identity. A type shared by several
  columns now dedupes to a single Enum block instead of colliding or
  duplicating. `synthesize_enum` and `render_type` route through one
  shared `enum_type_name` helper so the two can't drift apart again.
- `database_type` (and the CommentsUnsupported/NoForeignKeyMetadata
  warnings) now use the same canonical engine label already used
  throughout table_structure_sql's own warning prose, instead of a raw
  Rust Debug string (`Postgres`, `SqlServer`, `MongoDb`).
- An index-fetch failure during collection now surfaces as a
  TableSkipped warning instead of silently degrading to an empty index
  list, which relations.rs uses to infer relationship cardinality.
- A schema-enumeration failure now surfaces as a warning instead of
  silently proceeding against schema "".
- Removed the redundant Arc<Semaphore>; buffer_unordered already caps
  concurrency at MAX_CONCURRENT_TABLES.

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* feat(docs): add annotation file model

* test(docs): assert full round-trip fidelity for the annotation model

* feat(docs): add per-engine annotation key folding

* fix(docs): do not fold identifiers on case-sensitive engines

* feat(docs): load and validate the notes file

* fix(docs): report a version mismatch before unknown-field errors

* feat(docs): merge annotations into the schema snapshot

* feat(docs): detect orphaned annotations without deleting them

* feat(docs): add --notes to dbx dbml

* feat(docs): remember a notes file path per connection

Adds docs_notes_path to ConnectionConfig so the desktop app (Part 3)
can persist where a connection's documentation notes file lives. The
CLI is unaffected — it takes an explicit --notes path.

ConnectionConfig has a hand-written Deserialize impl that delegates to
a mirror struct, ConnectionConfigData, and converts via From. Adding
the field only to ConnectionConfig would compile but never populate
from stored JSON, since ConnectionConfigData's fields are what serde
actually reads. The field is threaded through all three places:
ConnectionConfig, ConnectionConfigData, and the From impl, mirroring
the existing `color` field.

* test(docs): verify annotations against a live database

* test(docs): assert exactly one orphaned annotation

* feat(docs): add snapshot types for the docs viewer

* fix(docs): correct snapshot type nullability and add missing column fields

* feat(docs): add a real-output fixture and drift conformance test

The fixture is generated by dump_docs_fixture.rs from a live collect_snapshot
run against the keycloak database in the shared local-infra stack, with
annotations applied so a LOCAL note, column note, group and orphanedNotes
warning are all present. fixtureConformance.spec.ts asserts against that real
JSON rather than a hand-written literal, so a change to the Rust snapshot
shape breaks the test instead of silently drifting from the hand-maintained
types.ts.

Keycloak is used because its schema is public open-source knowledge, so the
committed fixture carries no private schema. The kept tables are an explicit
allowlist rather than an alphabetical slice, because the conformance test
needs a connected foreign-key subgraph: protocol_mapper has two foreign keys
to different tables and composite_role has two to the same one.

* feat(docs): add index grouping for the docs viewer

* feat(docs): describe snapshot warnings for the viewer

* feat(docs): add client-side search for the docs viewer

* test(docs): make the search fixture able to fail

* feat(docs): expose group hue as a CSS custom property

* docs(plan): add annotations and viewer plans, correct Task 7

Parts 2 and 3a were planned after the first plan was committed and were never
tracked. docs/superpowers/ is gitignored, so both needed -f, matching how the
existing specs and plans in that directory were added.

The viewer plan's Task 7 is corrected against the installed marked@18.0.4. Its
original text carried four defects, found by probing the library rather than by
review: an assertion that fails against a correct implementation, a pre-escaping
approach that double-escapes entities, a javascript: blocklist with live
bypasses (entity-encoded, vbscript:, data:text/html, and <img src>, which was
never covered at all), and a link renderer whose text property is raw markdown
source rather than parsed HTML — an XSS hole found while verifying the fix for
the previous defect.

The viewer plan also gains a corrections appendix grouping defects by failure
mode. The annotations plan is committed as written; its defects are recorded in
a follow-up.

* feat(docs): render note markdown with raw HTML escaped

* fix(docs): drop protocol-relative URLs in note markdown

The URL allowlist permitted anything starting with / so relative paths work,
and //evil.com qualifies. Over https that grants nothing a note author could
not do with an ordinary https link, but the Part 3b standalone export is
opened via file://, where //host/path is a UNC path. On Windows that opens an
SMB connection and leaks an NTLM hash, with no click required since images
auto-load, and it is plantable from a COMMENT ON value.

Found by an adversarial probe of the committed module rather than by review;
the backslash form was already dropped, only the slash form slipped through.

* docs(plan): add corrections appendix to the annotations plan

Groups the defects found executing Part 2 by failure mode, matching the form
of the viewer plan's appendix. The notable one is Mode A: docs_notes_path had
to be added in three places because ConnectionConfig has a serde mirror
struct, and adding it in one place compiles, passes a round-trip test written
against the same struct, and then reads None forever after every load.

Also records a controller hypothesis that turned out to be wrong, since
checking it cost one read.

* fix(docs): reject backslash protocol-relative URLs in notes

The // guard from the previous commit was itself a blocklist: /\evil.com
starts with a single slash, so it passed, and the WHATWG URL spec treats /\ identically to // for special schemes. Browsers normalise the backslash, so
it reaches the same file:// UNC path and the same no-click NTLM leak.

Rejecting both separator characters in both positions closes it. Found by
probing what String(raw).trim() leaves unnormalised before the prefix checks;
the third defect on this file found by probing rather than by reading.

* feat(docs): add docs viewer components

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* test(docs): pin each theme's legacy colour base independently

The ordering check indexOf(hsl) < indexOf(@supports) quantified over any
occurrence, so deleting the light .docs-group block left the dark block's hsl
satisfying it. The test passed while every table group rendered colourless on
light-theme WebViews without oklch.

Asserting each selector's own base block catches deleting either one. Found by
the task implementer, which deleted one block and then both to show the guard
pinned 'some base exists' rather than 'each selector has a base'.

* fix(docs): escape single quotes in note attribute values

escapeHtml covered & < > and double quotes but not single quotes. Not
exploitable today because every attribute in this file is double-quoted, but
that is a formatting convention enforced nowhere and living in a different
part of the file from the escaper. A future edit writing title='...' would
turn a formatting choice into an attribute breakout.

Raised by review as latent fragility rather than a defect; fixed because the
escaper should be correct on its own rather than correct-given-an-invariant.

* test(docs): match single-quoted v-html bindings in the contract guard

The guard matched /v-html\s*=\s*"([^"]*)"/ — double quotes only. A binding
written `v-html='table.note'` produced zero matches and passed, handing a
database COMMENT ON value straight to the DOM with the renderNote sanitiser
bypassed. Both quote styles are valid Vue and nothing in the repo enforces
one, so the guard had a hole exactly where it mattered most.

Verified by temporarily rewriting a real WikiIndex binding as
`v-html='table.note'`: the test now fails with "WikiIndex.vue: v-html must
render renderNote output: expected 'table.note' to contain 'renderNote'".

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* fix(docs): cap search results per kind instead of overall

DocsSearch sliced searchDocs output to 40 AFTER concatenation, and the
concatenation order is tables -> columns -> groups -> enums. Columns always
flooded the list, so the cap deleted the tail — every group and enum hit.
Against the real fixture, "e" produced 155 hits (9 table, 133 column, 1 group,
12 enum) and rendered 9 tables, 31 columns and nothing else; groups and enums
were structurally unreachable through search.

Cap each kind against its own limit inside docsSearch.ts, where the logic is
tested, and drop the slice from the template so exactly one place limits
results. Ranking is unchanged: tables still precede columns.

Verified by reverting to a single .slice(0, 40) over the concatenation: the
new tests fail with "enums must survive a column flood: expected false to be
true" and "expected 30 to be 20".

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* fix(docs): move the index card note out of its button

The card rendered renderNote output with v-html inside the <button>. A note
containing a markdown link — [spec](https://example.com) — put an <a> inside a
<button>: invalid nesting, and the anchor was not keyboard reachable because
the button swallows it in the tab order.

The <li> now carries the card's border, background and hover, the button holds
only the table name and kind, and the note is its sibling. Visually identical —
same padding, same 0.5 gap, previously mt-0.5 — and the name row still spans
the full width as the click target.

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* test(docs): pin every fixture struct's key set in both directions

The guard pinned ColumnInfo and IndexInfo plus three DocTable keys, and only
in the "no missing key" direction. Relationship, FieldRef, DocEnum,
ProjectMeta, ColumnNote, ForeignKeyInfo, TableGroup and 10 of 13 DocTable keys
were unchecked. Renaming Relationship::to to `target` in Rust kept the suite at
67/67 and vue-tsc at exit 0 while RelationshipList read `field.table` on
undefined and every table page rendered blank.

Every struct in the fixture is now pinned both ways — no missing key, no
unexpected key — over every instance rather than element [0]. Each direction
catches a different half of a rename. Object.hasOwn throughout, so a key that
is present and null stays distinguishable from one skip_serializing_if omitted.

ForeignKeyInfo, TableGroup and the SchemaSnapshot root are included beyond the
list the review gave: they are equally present in the fixture and equally
unpinned.

Verified against a modified copy of the fixture outside the repo with
Relationship::to renamed: "Relationship[0] must always carry to: expected
false to be true".

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* fix(cli): error when an explicit --notes path does not exist

load_annotations returns Ok(None) for a missing file, which is right for the
implicit per-connection notes path — it may legitimately not exist yet. It is
wrong for --notes, where the user named a specific file: a mistyped path
produced DBML with every note silently absent and no diagnostic at all,
indistinguishable from a database that has no documentation.

Both final reviewers independently ruled this must-fix-before-merge.

* fix(docs): treat an explicit FK ref_schema as authoritative

find_target tried the explicit ref_schema, then fell through to the source
table's own schema on failure. When the referenced schema was not collected —
routine, since users select schemas — an FK from sales.orders to
archive.customers resolved to sales.customers instead: a different table, and
a diagram that is confidently wrong rather than visibly incomplete.

The function's own doc comment already promised that keys pointing outside the
collected set are dropped. Now it does that.

This is a regression of the defect found in Part 1: the three-tier lookup was
added then, but tier one was written to fall through rather than to decide.

* fix(docs): corroborate engine capability warnings against what was collected

supports_comments and supports_foreign_keys delegate to the structure
editor's DDL-generation capabilities, not to introspection support. IRIS is
the proven divergence: it reports %DESCRIPTION on introspection but DBX
cannot ALTER an existing one, so the flag is false while the collector reads
and includes those comments — producing a snapshot that warned comments were
unsupported alongside the comments themselves.

Each warning now fires only when the flag says the engine cannot AND
collection found nothing of the kind to contradict it. ClickHouse and Doris,
which genuinely report no foreign keys, still warn. The doc comments now say
what the functions actually measure.

Found by final review, which traced every other caller to establish the
flag's real semantics.

* docs(fixture): finish repointing the fixture source to keycloak

Follows the rebase that replaced the fixture at its origin commit. Repoints
the live annotation test's project identity and both plans, and records the
one capability keycloak costs us.

Keycloak declares no PostgreSQL enum types, so the fixture cannot exercise
DocEnum — a Rust-side rename of a DocEnum field would pass every test here
and break the viewer's enum rendering silently. Rather than delete the test,
it now asserts the gap, so it fails the day the fixture source gains an enum
and prompts restoring the pin.

* docs(spec): design for in-app database documentation (Part 3b)

Mounts the Part 3a viewer in DBX and makes it editable: table/column notes,
table groups, and per-group colour, autosaved to a notes file that can live
in the user's repository.

Two findings shaped the scope. DBX already ships SchemaDiagramDialog, so the
viewer links to it rather than building a second ER diagram — only the Part 3c
export needs its own minimal renderer, because that dialog reaches into stores
and cannot be inlined. And nothing currently reads docs_notes_path or writes
annotations at all, so 'in-app editing' needs new Rust rather than frontend
wiring alone.

The standalone export, dbx docs verb and hash routing are deferred to 3c.

* docs(plan): implementation plan for in-app database documentation

Ten tasks: atomic annotation save and path resolution, Tauri commands, web
route parity, the frontend facade, pure edit transforms, the i18n namespace
with a parity guard, editing components, the enum page, edit plumbing through
the viewer, and the dialog with debounced autosave.

Self-review caught three defects before dispatch, all the same class that cost
Part 3a ten fix rounds: a return type named DescribedWarning that does not
exist (it is WarningNotice), a test calling emptySnapshot() which does not
exist, and a table() helper invoked with columns when its real signature takes
a groupId. Every identifier the plan names is a claim about the codebase.

* docs(plan): resolve the data directory without a dbx-mcp dependency

Tasks 2 and 3 called dbx_mcp::paths::app_data_dir(), but neither src-tauri nor
dbx-web depends on dbx-mcp, so neither would have compiled. Both already have
a better source: AppState.storage.data_dir() honours a custom data dir, and
WebState already carries data_dir.

Found by the pre-flight scan before any implementer saw it.

* docs(plan): fix Task 1 against the real crate (no Default, no tempfile)

ConnectionConfig has no Default derive and ~60 fields, so resolve_notes_path
now takes the connection id and the optional override directly — the two
fields it actually reads. The test pain was pointing at the signature.

dbx-core has no dev-dependencies, so the tests use the temp_dir + uuid idiom
already present in annotations.rs rather than tempfile.

* feat(docs): add atomic annotation save and notes path resolution

* docs(plan): guard the autosave against concurrent writes

flush() cleared the debounce timer but not an in-flight write, so closing the
dialog while a debounced save was awaiting the backend started a second one.
Two concurrent saves of the same file waste a round trip, race to land stale,
and are the exact concurrency that corrupts the notes file when the temp path
is not unique per writer.

Found while adjudicating the Task 1 review, which demonstrated the Rust half
of the same problem.

* fix(docs): make temp paths unique to prevent concurrent save corruption

* fix(docs): replace vacuous atomicity test with inode-based verification

* docs(plan): correct the apply_annotations import path

dbx_core::docs re-exports collector, color, dbml, keys, relations and snapshot
but NOT annotations, so apply_annotations and friends are only reachable at
dbx_core::docs::annotations. Tasks 2 and 3 both used the shorter path and
would not have compiled.

Verified against crates/dbx-core/src/docs/mod.rs before either was dispatched.

* fix(docs): truncate temp filename to stay within 255-byte filesystem limit

* feat(docs): add Tauri commands for docs snapshot and annotations

* docs(plan): propagate the resolve_notes_path signature to its callers

Pre-flight changed resolve_notes_path to take (connection_id, docs_notes_path,
data_dir) instead of a ConnectionConfig, but only Task 1 was updated. Tasks 2
and 3 still called it with the old signature and would not have compiled.

The Task 2 implementer caught it and used the correct form from its dispatch
note. Task 3 had the identical stale call and had not been dispatched yet.

The plan's self-review checks signature consistency across tasks; this changed
AFTER that review, during pre-flight, and nothing re-ran the check.

* docs(plan): pin Task 4's http.ts idiom and the Tauri argument names

http.ts uses a post<T>(url, body) helper at line 222; the plan said only
'match the existing idiom', which is delegating verification to someone with
less context. Written out concretely now.

Also records what Task 2's review flagged as unverifiable from its own diff:
Tauri serialises command arguments by name, so the invoke object keys must
match the Rust parameter names. That mismatch compiles cleanly on both sides
and fails only when a user clicks — and it falls in the gap between two
task-scoped reviews, since neither diff contains both halves.

* feat(docs): add web routes for annotation load, apply and save

Mirrors the Tauri commands (docs_load_annotations, docs_apply_annotations,
docs_save_annotations) added in the previous task: collect returns the raw
snapshot, apply is separate so the shadowedNote rule stays in one place.

* docs(plan): make the i18n parity guard actually observable

Every non-English locale is export default withEnglishFallback({...}) — the
fallback is applied at module level, inside the locale file. Only en.ts is a
bare object. So importing a locale's default export yields the ALREADY-MERGED
object, and the parity test would have found every key present in every locale
and passed while translations were missing.

The test written to catch silent English fallback would have been silently
defeated by that fallback.

Task 6 now puts the new namespace in per-locale modules under locales/docs/,
which the test imports directly and unwrapped. Scoped entirely to the new
namespace; the existing 315 KB of keys are untouched. Step 6 also asks the
implementer to demonstrate the trap: point the imports back at the merged
modules and watch a missing key pass.

* feat(docs): expose docs snapshot and annotations to the frontend

* docs(plan): locate the duplicated table-key rule correctly in Task 8

The plan said docsIndex.ts builds the qualified table key inline. It does not
— it groups by table.schema, a section key. The table key rule lives in a
private qualified() in docsSearch.ts and in a hand-rolled tableKey() in
DocsApp.vue, DocsSidebar.vue and WikiIndex.vue.

Part 3a's final review flagged that duplication as a Minor and it was
deferred. Task 8 was about to add a fifth copy, so it now extracts
docsKeys.ts first and replaces the existing ones. This is the key annotations
are stored under, so two call sites disagreeing attaches a note to the wrong
table.

* feat(docs): add pure annotation edit transforms

* docs(plan): ground the group hue picker in DBX's existing swatch idiom

ConnectionDialog.vue already has a swatch row — h-6 w-6 rounded-full buttons,
ring-2 selected state, i18n titles. Task 7 now points at it so the new picker
looks native.

With an explicit warning not to copy the fill mechanism: connection colours
are hex painted via Tailwind classes, group colours are hues rendered through
docs.css. A naive copy introduces hex literals and fails the contract test —
correctly, since a hardcoded hex cannot stay legible on both grounds, which is
why groups store a hue at all.

* docs(plan): make Task 10's dialog wiring concrete

Five exact locations, all verified: the store ref and its export, the
useDialogSources watcher, the AppDialogs import and render, and the
ObjectBrowser trigger plus its context-menu entry.

Records the non-obvious part: the watcher clears the source back to null
after firing, and that clearing is what makes the dialog re-openable —
without it, setting the same value twice does not re-trigger the watch.

ObjectBrowser is the entry point rather than the connection tree, because the
tree has no diagram entry either and ObjectBrowser already supplies exactly
the prefills the docs dialog needs.

* feat(docs): add the docs i18n namespace with a parity guard

* fix(docs): ban vue-i18n from standalone-exportable docs components

WarningBanner.vue used useI18n() directly, which throws with no Vue app
instance -- exactly the standalone HTML export case describeWarning's
translator parameter exists to avoid. Thread translate as a prop from
DocsApp instead, and add vue-i18n/useI18n( to the component contract's
forbidden list so the constraint is enforced, not just documented.

* docs(plan): note that DocsApp already has snapshot and translate

Task 6's fix added translate to DocsApp when describeWarning started taking a
translator. Task 9 said to add it, which would have been a duplicate prop.
It now says to add only annotations and readonly to the existing defineProps.

* feat(docs): add note editor, group editor and group picker

* docs(plan): give Task 10 the dialog shell from SchemaDiagramDialog

Exact Dialog primitives, the get/set computed every dialog here uses to bridge
the open prop, and the sizing class copied verbatim from
SchemaDiagramDialog.vue:827 — the docs viewer is the same kind of full-window
workspace, not a form, so it should not invent dimensions.

Also states explicitly that this component lives outside src/docs/ and so may
and must use useI18n(): it is what supplies the translate prop the viewer
components need, since they are banned from importing vue-i18n themselves.

* test(docs): guard the light-ground group tokens too

* feat(docs): add the enum page and a shared table-key helper

EnumPage renders an enum's values and every column declared with that type.
It is read-only on purpose: AnnotationFile has no `enums` key, so an edited
note would have nowhere to be saved.

qualifiedTableKey moves the `schema.name` rule — bare name on schema-less
engines like SQLite and MySQL — into docsKeys, where the call sites that had
each copied it can share one definition. It is the key annotations are stored
under, so two call sites disagreeing would attach a note to the wrong table.

columnsUsingEnum matches data_type exactly rather than by substring: an enum
named `state` would otherwise claim every `estado` and `statement` column.

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* refactor(docs): share one qualified table key across the viewer

Six call sites had each copied the `schema.name` rule; they now import
qualifiedTableKey from docsKeys instead. Two were not in the plan's list:
TablePage.vue and RelationshipList.vue. RelationshipList passes a remapped
FieldRef rather than a DocTable, which is why the helper takes
Pick<DocTable, "schema" | "name"> — that widening is what let every call site
be adapted directly instead of keeping a thin delegating wrapper.

Also strengthens the columnsUsingEnum substring guard, which was not guarding
anything. Its only column had type `integer`, and "integer".includes("state")
is false, so replacing the exact match with includes() left all 8 tests
green. Adds a `statement` column — the only type here that really contains
`state` — and drops `estado` from the doc comment, since it does not.

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* feat(docs): thread editing through the viewer as emitted events

DocsApp gains `annotations` and `readonly` and re-emits a DocsEdit for every
change its children request. Nothing under src/docs/ persists anything, which
is what keeps the directory bundleable into the standalone HTML export; a new
contract guard now pins that by rejecting any component that names
save/load/applyDocsAnnotations.

NoteEditor is fed the MERGED snapshot note, not the local annotation layer. It
renders and edits one value, so seeding it locally would show nothing for a
note that came from a database comment. Writing over one shadows it, which is
what noteSource and shadowedNote already exist to disclose.

`annotations` is threaded for what the merge erases: `groups` carries the
editable GroupAnnotation records, while snapshot.groups carries resolved
TableGroups that GroupPicker and GroupEditor cannot write back to.

Also makes enums reachable. EnumPage rendered nowhere and search returned enum
hits that DocsSearch deliberately disabled, since enums carry no table key;
they now navigate by bare name, which is how columnsUsingEnum resolves them
too. Groups remain unclickable — they still have no page.

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* feat(docs): mount the documentation viewer in DBX with autosaved editing

DatabaseDocsDialog hosts DocsApp outside src/docs/, which is what lets it use
useI18n() and supply the `translate` prop the viewer components are banned from
importing for themselves. It collects the snapshot, loads the notes file
(falling back to emptyAnnotations), and holds the raw snapshot so every edit can
re-derive the merged view through applyDocsAnnotations.

createAutosave debounces writes and, above all, makes a failure visible: a
silently swallowed write is the worst outcome here, because the user keeps
typing and believes their notes are saved. It also refuses to run two writes at
once — flush() clearing the timer does not stop a write already awaiting save,
and two concurrent writes of the same file is the exact race that corrupted the
notes file before the Rust side used a unique temp path. Both properties are
pinned by tests I confirmed fail when the guard is removed.

Loads and re-derivations carry a generation number so a slow response cannot
overwrite a newer one, and closing flushes the debounce rather than dropping a
note typed a moment earlier.

Trigger mirrors the schema diagram's wiring: docsSource on connectionStore, a
watch in useDialogSources that clears the source so the dialog is re-openable,
an async component in AppDialogs, and openDocs in ObjectBrowser. The context
entry is added at BOTH object menus — the plan named only the table one, but
views offer diagram.open too and documentation is no less relevant there.

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* docs(plan): record Tasks 1-10 as done

The plan carried 58 unticked boxes after ten completed tasks, so progress had
to be reconstructed from the commit trail instead of read off the document.

Tasks 1-7 are ticked from that commit evidence rather than from step-by-step
observation — they landed in earlier sessions. Tasks 8-10 were executed and
verified directly.

Task 8 Step 2 stays open on purpose. `columnsUsingEnum` was already implemented
and committed before that step was reached, so its failure was never observed;
the exact-match guard was verified by Step 5 instead, which is what exposed
that the test could not detect a substring match at all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VTBWnT4goXLA9iqDrfTPqk

* feat(docs): print snapshot warnings as prose from the CLI

`dbx dbml` printed `{warning:?}`, so a skipped table surfaced as
`TableSkipped { table: "public.orders", reason: "permission denied" }` —
the struct shape, reading like a panic rather than like advice.

The prose lives in Rust rather than in the `docs.warnings` i18n namespace
because the CLI has no i18n runtime. That is the same constraint that made
`describeWarning` take a translator instead of importing vue-i18n: the
viewer translates, the CLI cannot, so each needs its own source for the
same text.

A second test asserts the rendering is not the Debug form, because
reverting the CLI to `{warning:?}` is a one-character edit that still
compiles and still prints something.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ro4mfGEmsbbH32WYsvxsfH

* feat(docs): let a connection point its notes file at a repository

`docs_notes_path` has existed on `ConnectionConfig` since Part 2 and has
been read by `resolve_notes_path` since Part 3b, but nothing ever set it —
so every connection silently used the app data directory default and the
override was unreachable.

The field is what makes schema documentation reviewable: pointing it at a
file inside a repository puts notes in the same diff as the migration that
changed the schema.

Gated on `isSchemaAware`, matching the row above it, since documentation is
a relational-only feature. A cleared field is normalised to absent rather
than "" — `resolve_notes_path` treats blank as unset, but an empty string
would still be persisted as though a path had been chosen.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ro4mfGEmsbbH32WYsvxsfH

* docs: document database documentation and DBML export

Covers opening the viewer, notes and groups, the LOCAL/database-comment
rule, the notes file format and where it lives, every warning the viewer
can raise, and the `dbx dbml` verb including the CI drift check.

States the boundaries explicitly — relational engines only, no triggers or
procedures, and DBML export is one-way — because each of those is a
question the feature invites and would otherwise be answered by trying it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ro4mfGEmsbbH32WYsvxsfH

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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README.md

70+ databases in 20 MB. Desktop, Docker, CLI, built-in AI assistant, and MCP Server.

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Why DBX?

🪶 20 MB, zero runtime bloat

No Java JRE. No Python venv. No bundled Chromium. DBX ships as a single small binary — download, install, connect. DBeaver needs Java; TablePlus is macOS-only. DBX runs everywhere with nothing extra.

🤖 AI that lives in your editor

Highlight a table, describe what you want, get SQL back — no copy-paste between tools. Works with Claude, OpenAI, or local models via Ollama. Built-in safety checks review AI-generated SQL before it runs.

🔌 MCP: your databases, AI-ready

DBX speaks the Model Context Protocol. Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and other AI coding agents can query your databases through connections you already set up. One config, everywhere.

🌐 Desktop + Docker + Web

Native app on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Self-host via Docker for team access. Web version for browser-only environments. Same feature set. Same connections.

Features

70+ Databases, One Tool

MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Cloudflare D1, Redis, MongoDB, DuckDB, ClickHouse, SQL Server, Oracle, Elasticsearch, Easysearch, Qdrant, Milvus, Weaviate, MariaDB, TiDB, OceanBase, openGauss, GaussDB, KWDB, KingBase, Vastbase, GoldenDB, Doris, SelectDB, StarRocks, Manticore Search, Redshift, DM, TDengine, XuguDB, CockroachDB, Access, HighGo, UXDB, and more. Agent/JDBC-oriented profiles extend DBX to H2, Snowflake, Trino, PrestoSQL, Hive, DB2, Informix, Neo4j, Cassandra, BigQuery, Kylin, SunDB, JDBCX, and custom JDBC connections. New native and agent-driven drivers also cover Databricks, SAP HANA, Teradata, Vertica, Firebird, Exasol, YashanDB, GBase 8a/8s, Databend, RQLite, Turso, InfluxDB, QuestDB, IoTDB, etcd, ZooKeeper, Nacos, IRIS, and more. Message queue admin is also available for Pulsar, Kafka, and RocketMQ. All in a single ~20 MB app. No bundled Chromium.

Query Editor

CodeMirror 6 with SQL syntax highlighting, metadata-aware autocomplete, Cmd+Enter execution, selected SQL execution, SQL formatting, diagnostics, and 9 editor themes. Persistent query history, saved SQL snippets, tab restore, and SQL file execution keep repeat work close at hand.

AI SQL Assistant

Describe what you want in plain language — get SQL back. DBX can explain queries, optimize SQL, fix errors, and run AI-generated SQL through built-in safety checks. Works with Claude, OpenAI, local models, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Data Grid

Virtual-scrolled table that handles large result sets. Inline editing, SQL preview before save, WHERE / ORDER BY controls, DataGrip-style filters, LIKE / NOT LIKE context filters, sorting, full-text search, pagination, column resize, auto-fit, row numbers, zebra stripes, and full cell details. Export or copy as CSV, JSON, Markdown, XLSX, or INSERT statements.

Schema Tools

  • Schema browser — databases, schemas, tables, columns, indexes, foreign keys, triggers, with sidebar search & pin
  • Object browser — grouped procedures, functions, views, and source editing where supported
  • Table structure editor — reviewable column and index changes for supported engines
  • ER diagram — visualize table relationships
  • Schema diff — compare structures across connections
  • Explain plan — visual query execution plan
  • Field lineage — column-level lineage analysis
  • Database search — find objects across large schemas

Data Operations

  • Table import — CSV, Excel
  • Data transfer — migrate between databases
  • Database export — full database dump
  • Data compare — compare table data and review synchronization output
  • SQL file execution — run .sql files directly
  • File preview — drag & drop Parquet, CSV, JSON to preview instantly (powered by DuckDB)
  • Connection import — bring connection profiles from DBeaver or Navicat

Specialized Browsers

  • Redis — key pattern search, batch key operations, command runner, TTL editing, and all data types (String, Hash, List, Set, ZSet, Stream)
  • MongoDB — document CRUD with pagination, Atlas & replica set URL connection

Safety & Connectivity

SSH tunnel (key & password) · database and AI proxy settings · auto-reconnect on connection loss · confirmation dialogs for destructive operations · encrypted config export/import · color-coded connections · driver store and optional JDBC plugin

Polished UI

Dark mode with native title bar sync · 9 editor themes · English, 简体中文 & Español · layout preferences · built-in auto-update

AI Agent Integration (MCP)

DBX provides a separate Rust-powered MCP server that lets AI coding agents query databases using connections configured in DBX. The MCP server is distributed independently from the desktop application, so installing DBX does not automatically install the MCP executable.

npx @dbx-app/mcp-server

Add to your .mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dbx": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@dbx-app/mcp-server"] }
  }
}

Manage the connection allowlist and the Read only, Data read/write, and Full access modes in DBX Settings → MCP. The machine-readable values remain read_only, safe_write, and high_risk_write; client configs do not need permission or connection-scope environment variables.

For upgrade compatibility, an existing DBX_MCP_ALLOW_WRITES=0 (or false) remains a read-only restriction only until a central MCP policy is saved for the first time; it can never enable writes or override a saved policy.

Windows portable builds need DBX_DATA_DIR in the MCP config, pointing to the data directory next to DBX.exe (the folder that contains dbx.db).

For DBX Web or Docker deployments, point the MCP server at the Web backend API. If the Web login page requires a password, set DBX_WEB_PASSWORD to the same password used there:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dbx": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@dbx-app/mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "DBX_WEB_URL": "http://localhost:4224",
        "DBX_WEB_PASSWORD": "your-web-login-password"
      }
    }
  }
}

Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and any MCP-compatible agent. Supports listing connections, browsing tables, executing SQL, and opening tables directly in DBX's UI.

Precompiled native binaries are also published for macOS, Linux, and Windows in package releases. They run without Node.js and are suitable for offline or server environments. The npm installation uses the same Rust binary through a small Node.js launcher.

DBX also provides a dedicated CLI package for terminal, script, and Codex workflows:

npm install -g @dbx-app/cli
# or via Homebrew
brew tap t8y2/dbx && brew install dbx-cli
dbx connections list --json
dbx query local "select 1" --json

See the MCP server README and CLI README for details.

Install

Download the latest release from the Releases page.

Homebrew (macOS):

brew install --cask dbx

Scoop (Windows):

scoop bucket add dbx https://github.com/t8y2/scoop-bucket
scoop install dbx

WinGet (Windows):

winget install t8y2.dbx

Flatpak (Linux):

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flatpark https://dl.flatpark.org/flatpark.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flatpark com.dbxio.dbx

Updates then arrive through the regular flatpak update. See the DBX page on FlatPark for details.

Self-Hosted (Docker)

DBX provides a web version that can be deployed via Docker. The examples use the latest tag to pull the current release.

docker run -d --pull=always --name dbx -p 4224:4224 -v dbx-data:/app/data t8y2/dbx:latest

This uses the cross-platform dbx-data named volume. Users in China can use the CNB image, docker.cnb.cool/dbxio.com/dbx:latest, for faster pulls.

For Docker Compose, deploy/docker-compose.yml remains the source-build configuration. To deploy a published image, use deploy/docker-compose.release.yml:

docker compose -f deploy/docker-compose.release.yml up -d
services:
  dbx:
    image: t8y2/dbx:latest
    # For faster pulls in China, use the CNB image instead:
    # image: docker.cnb.cool/dbxio.com/dbx:latest
    pull_policy: always
    ports:
      - "4224:4224"
    volumes:
      - dbx-data:/app/data
    restart: unless-stopped

volumes:
  dbx-data:

Open http://localhost:4224 in your browser. Multi-arch images (amd64 / arm64) are available.

To publish DBX under a reverse-proxy context path such as /dbx, set the runtime base path and proxy the same prefix to the container:

environment:
  - DBX_PUBLIC_BASE_PATH=/dbx

When building the frontend yourself with an absolute asset base, set VITE_DBX_BASE_PATH=/dbx/ before pnpm build.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

System Dependencies

macOS:

No additional dependencies required.

Linux (Ubuntu/Debian):

sudo apt-get install -y libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libgtk-3-dev libappindicator3-dev librsvg2-dev patchelf libssl-dev

NIXOS/NIX :

See README-NIX.md

Windows:

No additional dependencies required.

Development

make

make installs root dependencies when needed and starts the local Tauri desktop development environment.

Development builds can run alongside an installed DBX instance and share its local data, including connections and history. Avoid changing the same connection or global setting in both windows at once.

[!TIP] DuckDB compilation takes a while. If you're not working on DuckDB features, skip it to speed up local builds:

# Fast checks (skip DuckDB)
make cargo-check-fast
make cargo-test-fast

# Tauri dev without DuckDB
make dev-fast

The --no-default-features flag only affects local development. Release builds (pnpm tauri build) always include DuckDB.

Web version:

make dev-web       # frontend
make dev-backend   # backend

Documentation site:

make docs

The official DBX documentation site lives in docs/. If you want to improve the website content or documentation pages, edit the files under docs/ and run make docs to preview the site locally.

For clean, reproducible local database instances, use the versioned Docker Compose recipes under deploy/database/:

make db-list
make db-verify DB=mysql@8.4

JDBC agent driver development projects live in agents/:

cd agents
./gradlew test

Build artifacts from agents/drivers/<db-type>/build/libs/ are picked up by local driver install flows when available.

Build

make package

The installer will be in src-tauri/target/release/bundle/.

Tech Stack

Layer Technology
Framework Tauri 2
Frontend Vue 3 + TypeScript
UI shadcn-vue + Tailwind CSS
Editor CodeMirror 6
Backend Rust + sqlx / tiberius / redis-rs / mongodb

Documentation

Community

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Support DBX

DBX is free and open source, but ongoing maintenance, database compatibility testing, infrastructure, and release work require sustained time and resources.

Sponsors & Partners

RainYun RainYun is a cloud service provider offering cloud servers, physical servers, game hosting, and developer-friendly infrastructure services. Visit RainYun
Qiniu Cloud Qiniu Cloud provides DBX with object storage, CDN, and other cloud infrastructure resources. Visit Qiniu Cloud
Easysearch Easysearch is an enterprise-grade distributed search engine compatible with Elasticsearch APIs, combining full-text, vector, geospatial search, real-time analytics, and AI capabilities in one platform. Visit Easysearch
Atlas Cloud Atlas Cloud gives developers one unified API for 400+ AI models across chat, image, video, and audio. Visit Atlas Cloud

FAQ

Is DBX free? Yes. DBX is open source under Apache-2.0. All features are free.
Does DBX phone home? No. DBX does not collect telemetry. The auto-update feature checks GitHub Releases for new versions — you can disable it in settings.
Can I use DBX without an internet connection? Yes. The desktop app works fully offline. For air-gapped driver installs, download offline driver packages from the [Offline Drivers page](https://dbxio.com/en/drivers) on an internet-connected machine, transfer them to the offline machine, then import them in DBX from Settings > Driver Manager. AI features need network access to the model endpoint (or a local model via Ollama).
How is DBX different from DBeaver / TablePlus / Beekeeper Studio? DBX is 20 MB with no runtime dependencies for its native database features (no system Java or Python required). AI is built into the application, while MCP is provided as a separately installed Rust companion package or native binary. It supports 70+ databases across desktop, Docker, and web from a shared Rust core.
What databases are supported? MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Cloudflare D1, Redis, MongoDB, DuckDB, ClickHouse, SQL Server, Oracle, Elasticsearch, Easysearch, Qdrant, Milvus, Weaviate, MariaDB, TiDB, OceanBase, openGauss, GaussDB, KWDB, KingBase, Vastbase, GoldenDB, Doris, SelectDB, StarRocks, Manticore Search, Redshift, DM, TDengine, XuguDB, CockroachDB, Access, HighGo, UXDB, and more. Agent/JDBC-oriented profiles extend support to H2, Snowflake, Trino, PrestoSQL, Hive, DB2, Informix, Neo4j, Cassandra, BigQuery, Kylin, SunDB, JDBCX, Databricks, SAP HANA, Teradata, Vertica, Firebird, Exasol, YashanDB, GBase 8a/8s, Databend, RQLite, Turso, InfluxDB, QuestDB, IoTDB, etcd, ZooKeeper, Nacos, IRIS, and custom JDBC connections. Message queue admin (Pulsar, Kafka, RocketMQ) is also supported.
How do I report a bug or request a feature? Open an issue on GitHub Issues.

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License

Apache-2.0