# Scylladb Alternator

> Guide users building against ScyllaDB's DynamoDB-compatible API (Alternator). Use this skill when a user is porting a DynamoDB application to ScyllaDB, using boto3/AWS SDK clients against ScyllaDB, or asking about Alternator setup, write isolation, or load balancing. Triggers on "Alternator", "DynamoDB API", "DynamoDB compatible", "boto3 with ScyllaDB", "migrate from DynamoDB", "aws-sdk against ScyllaDB", "alternatorport", "alternatorwriteisolation".

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-scylladb-scylladb-alternator
- tashan id: skill:scylladb/scylladb-alternator
- Source: https://github.com/scylladb/agent-skills
- Type: skill
- Category: database
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 98.0
- Freshness: 95.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: Apache-2.0
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r scylladb-alternator ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-05 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.