Litescope

Let AI agents touch production SQLite — safely. Diagnose before the write, rewind after it. For Cloudflare D1, Turso, and local files.

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Ask Claude to change your D1 database — and undo it if it's wrong. Every write is dry-run by default with the exact blast radius, and one call away from revert.

Free and open source (AGPL-3.0) — every command, every fleet operation, self-hostable, no license key. The only paid thing is the hosted dashboard we run for you.

Why a tool for SQLite?

"It's just a file — what's there to operate?"

That was true when SQLite was a local dev toy. It isn't anymore. D1, Turso, LiteFS, and Litestream put SQLite in production at fleet scale — thousands of databases, one per tenant. But the tooling never caught up:

• sqlite3 assumes one database. Production assumes thousands. There's no pg_stat, no APM, no standard way to see from the outside why a database is locked, why WAL is bloating, or which tenant went silent.

• Embedded means unobservable. The very thing that makes SQLite great — no server — is what leaves you blind in production.

• Agents now write to your data. No SQLite tool was built assuming an AI would run the migration. Litescope was.

Postgres has a mature tool for every problem. SQLite has none — so Litescope is one binary for the whole job: fleet observability, file-level superpowers (bisect / rewind / salvage), lock & WAL diagnostics, and a safe interface for agents. Things a generic DB client structurally can't do.

Related MCP server: sqlite-mcp

MCP — Give Claude direct access to your D1

Claude Code — install the plugin, which brings the MCP server plus five skills (lock doctor, safe writes, migration review, fleet sweep, corruption recovery) that teach the agent how to use it when something is wrong:

/plugin marketplace add croc100/Litescope
/plugin install litescope@litescope

Or just the MCP server, one line (read-only):

claude mcp add litescope -- litescope mcp

With writes + D1 (Litescope still dry-runs every write and captures a rewind point before applying):

claude mcp add litescope \
  -e CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN=your-token \
  -e CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID=your-account-id \
  -- litescope mcp --allow-writes

Cursor — one-click: ➕ Add litescope to Cursor (installs read-only; add --allow-writes and the Cloudflare env vars in mcp.json to enable writes).

Claude Desktop / Windsurf / any MCP client — add to the config file directly:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "litescope": {
      "command": "litescope",
      "args": ["mcp", "--allow-writes"],
      "env": {
        "CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN": "your-token",
        "CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID": "your-account-id"
      }
    }
  }
}

Also listed in the MCP Registry as io.github.croc100/litescope.

Then ask Claude things like:

"List my D1 databases"
"Show me the schema of the users table in d1://abc-123"
"Delete every inactive user from d1://prod-db-id"     ← dry-run first: shows the
                                                        exact blast radius before
                                                        you approve the write
"Undo that — put it back the way it was"              ← one-call revert via the
                                                        rewind_token from the write
"The deploy at 2pm broke something — rewind prod to 1:45pm"
"Diff my local dev.db against d1://prod-db-id and show me the migration SQL"

Read-only tools (always available)

litescope_query enforces token budgeting — max_rows cap + columns projection + truncation reporting — so a large table never blows the agent's context window.

Write tools (--allow-writes)

Write tools are off unless you start the server with --allow-writes, every write is dry-run by default, and no write commits without an auto-captured undo point. See the security model for the full boundary — what each layer protects against, and what it doesn't.

Prompts & Resources

Beyond tools, the MCP server exposes prompts — canned workflows like diagnose_locked_database, review_migration, safe_optimize, and health_checkup that chain the tools above into a safe plan — and resources: a database's schema, data dictionary, live health, and live lock diagnosis — readable by the agent without spending a tool call, and subscribable for push updates whenever the underlying file changes. Bind one with litescope mcp ./app.db, or address any source via litescope://schema/{source}, litescope://dictionary/{source}, litescope://health/{source}, and litescope://locks/{source}.

The server implements MCP 2026-07-28, the stateless revision: server/discover, per-request protocol metadata, resultType, caching hints (ttlMs / cacheScope), and subscriptions/listen streams — alongside tool annotations (read-only / destructive hints), structured output (structuredContent + outputSchema) and argument completion. It is dual-era: a client that still opens with the initialize handshake is served MCP 2025-06-18 unchanged, so older MCP clients keep working.

Interactive views (MCP Apps)

Four tools answer with an interactive panel rendered inside the conversation, via the MCP Apps extension (io.modelcontextprotocol/ui):

The views are single self-contained documents compiled into the binary. They load nothing from the network, so the host's strictest CSP applies and a database's contents cannot leave the iframe. They never write, either: a button that would apply or undo a write hands the request back to the conversation, because a click inside an embedded panel is not the user approving a production write. A host without the extension gets the same results as text.

Remote / hosted (Streamable HTTP)

By default litescope mcp speaks stdio. For a hosted, remote, or multi-client setup, serve over the Streamable HTTP transport instead:

litescope mcp --http :7577 --http-token "$LITESCOPE_MCP_TOKEN"

POST a JSON-RPC message to the endpoint (/mcp by default). Modern clients are served statelessly — no session — with each request carrying its own protocol metadata and the standard MCP-Protocol-Version / Mcp-Method / Mcp-Name headers, and change notifications arriving on a subscriptions/listen response stream. Handshake-era clients still get a session via the Mcp-Session-Id header and a GET SSE stream.

Before exposing it publicly, lock it down: --http-token (or the LITESCOPE_MCP_TOKEN env var) requires Authorization: Bearer <token> on every request, and --http-origin allowlists browser Origins (localhost is always allowed) for DNS-rebinding protection. Without a token the endpoint is open and the server prints a warning.

D1 — CLI operations

Rewind — D1 Time Travel

# Restore to a previous point in time
litescope rewind d1://DB_ID --to "2h ago"
litescope rewind d1://DB_ID --to "yesterday"
litescope rewind d1://DB_ID --to "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z"

# List available restore points (30-day window + migration timestamps)
litescope rewind list d1://DB_ID

Pull / Push — sync between D1 and local SQLite

# Download D1 → local (for inspection, backup, or diffing)
litescope d1 pull d1://DB_ID ./snapshot.db

# Upload local → D1 (seed a fresh database or restore from snapshot)
litescope d1 push ./seed.db d1://DB_ID
litescope d1 push ./seed.db d1://DB_ID --drop-existing

Migrate — schema changes on D1

# Diff local dev schema against live D1 — generate migration SQL
litescope migrate local.db d1://DB_ID

# Apply a migration directly to D1
litescope migrate apply d1://DB_ID migration.sql

Bisect — find which commit broke a D1 database

Binary-search D1 Time Travel to pinpoint the exact snapshot where a query started returning wrong results:

litescope bisect d1://DB_ID \
  --good "3d ago" \
  --bad now \
  --check "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM orders WHERE status = 'paid'" \
  --expect "gt:0"

Checks gt:0 (greater-than), lt:N, eq:N, or a literal value. Narrows to the snapshot window where the condition first failed, then lets you inspect or rewind.

Local SQLite

doctor — one-shot checkup

litescope doctor app.db
litescope doctor app.db --deep            # exhaustive integrity_check
litescope doctor app.db --format html -o report.html

Combines integrity check, WAL/fragmentation health, index advisor, and schema lint in one command. Exits 1 when attention is needed — use it as a CI quality gate.

snapshot / restore — point-in-time backups

litescope snapshot app.db                     # consistent VACUUM INTO copy
litescope snapshot app.db --label before-migration
litescope snapshot app.db --keep 7            # retain only the 7 newest
litescope snapshot list app.db
litescope restore app.db                      # restore the newest snapshot
litescope restore app.db --from <snapshot.db>

Snapshots live in a sibling .litescope-snapshots/ directory. Restore is integrity-checked and takes a pre-restore safety snapshot first — the same "did you back up?" safety net that D1 gets from Time Travel, for local and Turso.

autopilot — self-driving optimization

litescope autopilot app.db                    # dry-run: show the plan
litescope autopilot app.db --apply            # apply the safe actions
litescope autopilot app.db --apply --aggressive
litescope autopilot --fleet litescope.fleet.yaml --apply

Runs ANALYZE + PRAGMA optimize, adds missing foreign-key indexes, and (with --aggressive) VACUUMs and drops redundant indexes — each explained in plain language. Dry-run by default; every real change is preceded by an automatic snapshot.

locks — diagnose "database is locked"

litescope locks app.db                        # static config diagnosis
litescope locks app.db --live                 # is a writer holding the lock now?
litescope locks app.db --watch                # stream lock-state changes
litescope locks app.db --timeline             # recorded contention history
litescope locks app.db --timeline --since 24h

Inspects journal mode, busy_timeout, locking mode, and WAL bloat, and prescribes the exact PRAGMA/DSN fix. --live identifies the process holding the lock right now. --watch records every observation to a local history store; --timeline then aggregates it into a per-database contention view — when the database was jammed, for how long, which processes held it, wait-time percentiles, and whether the WAL checkpoint kept up.

diff — schema and data diff

litescope diff old.db new.db
litescope diff old.db new.db --format json
litescope diff local.db d1://DB_ID        # local vs live D1
litescope diff local.db turso://TOKEN@ORG/prod

migrate — generate and apply migrations

litescope migrate before.db after.db --output migration.sql
litescope migrate apply prod.db migration.sql --dry-run
litescope migrate apply prod.db migration.sql --verify after.db

migrate apply safety sequence: pre-flight integrity check → VACUUM INTO backup → single transaction → FK verification → auto-rollback on failure.

lint — schema anti-patterns

litescope lint app.db
litescope lint app.db --strict   # exit 1 on info findings too

Rules: no-primary-key, untyped-column, not-strict, autoincrement-overhead, non-integer-pk.

schema — inspect schema + ERD

litescope schema app.db
litescope schema app.db --erd    # Mermaid ER diagram

dump — portable SQL export

litescope dump app.db -o backup.sql
litescope dump app.db --schema-only
litescope dump app.db --table users

import / export — spreadsheets and SQLite

litescope import sales.csv              # → sales.db, table "sales"
litescope import budget.xlsx            # first sheet → budget.db
litescope export shop.db --table orders -o orders.xlsx
litescope export shop.db --query "SELECT city, COUNT(*) FROM users GROUP BY city"

Formats: CSV, TSV, JSON, Excel (.xlsx). No external dependencies.

monitor — schema drift detection

litescope monitor snapshot prod.db --output baseline.json
litescope monitor check prod.db --baseline baseline.json     # exits 1 on drift
litescope monitor watch prod.db --baseline baseline.json --interval 1h --webhook https://hooks.slack.com/...

serve — local web dashboard

litescope serve                   # opens http://127.0.0.1:7575
litescope serve --config litescope.fleet.yaml

Fleet topology map, health triage, schema fingerprinting, interactive ERD, a paginated data browser with a visual query builder, drag-drop import, and a visual diff panel — pick any two databases to review schema and row-count changes before applying. Entirely local, no account required.

Fleet

Manage hundreds of databases at once. Built for multi-tenant apps on Turso and D1.

# Discover all databases
litescope fleet discover turso --org my-org --token $TURSO_API_TOKEN
litescope fleet discover d1 --account $CF_ACCOUNT_ID --token $CF_API_TOKEN

# Triage the whole fleet
litescope fleet health
litescope fleet locks         # roll up "database is locked" contention, worst-first
litescope fleet fingerprint   # cluster by schema — find drift before it bites

# Stage a migration across the fleet
litescope fleet migrate migration.sql --dry-run
litescope fleet migrate migration.sql --canary 5
litescope fleet migrate migration.sql

CI — GitHub Action

Run Litescope on every pull request — lint the schema, diff against the base branch, and comment the blast radius so a risky migration can't merge unreviewed.

- uses: croc100/Litescope@v1
  with:
    args: "lint app.db --strict"
    comment: "true"          # post the result as a sticky PR comment

args is any Litescope command; the job exits non-zero when Litescope flags something, failing the check. See examples/github-actions/migration-ci.yml for a full lint + diff workflow.

Install

Homebrew

brew install croc100/tap/litescope

npm / npx — for JS and wrangler users, no separate install:

npx litescope doctor app.db
npm install -g litescope

Go install

go install github.com/croc100/litescope/cmd/litescope@latest

Binary download

macOS, Linux, Windows — Releases.

Remote sources

Pricing — what's free

The tool is free. We only charge to run the dashboard for you.

The line is simple: the software and every feature is free and self-hostable forever. You pay only if you want us to host and operate the dashboard so you don't have to. No feature is locked behind a license key.

See litescope-site.pages.dev/pricing for the hosted plans.

License

Litescope is AGPL-3.0. Free to use, modify, and self-host. If you offer it as a network service the AGPL requires you to share your modifications. A commercial license (AGPL exception + support SLA) is available for organizations — see COMMERCIAL.md or email dl_litescope@crode.net.