Use when reasoning about horizontal partitioning of data across nodes for storage capacity and write throughput beyond a single node: the three foundational partitioning schemes (range, hash, directory/lookup), the shard-key choice that determines whether the system scales or hotspots, the resharding problem and how consistent hashing addresses it, cross-shard queries and the joins-and-transactions trade-off, the relationship to replication (sharding partitions data; replication copies each shard), and the failure modes (hot shard, skewed distribution, cross-shard transactions, range-end overload). Do NOT use for replicating the same data across nodes (use replication-patterns), the CAP/PACELC frame (use cap-theorem-tradeoffs), single-node performance tuning (use query-optimization), or indexing within a shard (use indexing-strategy).
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Claude CodeCodexCursorGitHub CopilotGemini CLI
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Use when reasoning about horizontal partitioning of data across nodes for storage capacity and write throughput beyond a single node: the three foundational partitioning schemes (range, hash, directory/lookup), the shard-key choice that determines whether the system scales or hotspots, the resharding problem and how consistent hashing addresses it, cross-shard queries and the joins-and-transactions trade-off, the relationship to replication (sharding partitions data; replication copies each shard), and the failure modes (hot shard, skewed distribution, cross-shard transactions, range-end overload). Do NOT use for replicating the same data across nodes (use replication-patterns), the CAP/PACELC frame (use cap-theorem-tradeoffs), single-node performance tuning (use query-optimization), or indexing within a shard (use indexing-strategy).
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Use when reasoning about horizontal partitioning of data across nodes for storage capacity and write throughput beyond a single node: the three foundational partitioning schemes (range, hash, directory/lookup), the shard-key choice that determines whether the system scales or hotspots, the resharding problem and how consistent hashing addresses it, cross-shard queries and the joins-and-transactions trade-off, the relationship to replication (sharding partitions data; replication copies each shard), and the failure modes (hot shard, skewed distribution, cross-shard transactions, range-end overload). Do NOT use for replicating the same data across nodes (use replication-patterns), the CAP/PACELC frame (use cap-theorem-tradeoffs), single-node performance tuning (use query-optimization), or indexing within a shard (use indexing-strategy).
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General
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English
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Agent compatibility
Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.
Claude Code
Codex
Cursor
GitHub Copilot
Gemini CLI