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Airtable Utils

Schema export, schema diffing, standards checking, and access auditing for Airtable bases, plus an agent skill for writing correct Airtable scripts

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JavaScript Airtable Claude Code

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AI Agents Operations Software Development
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Many small organisations run on Airtable, but Airtable has no built-in tools that you need once your bases start to grow. Airtable Utils provides these:

  • Schema export: dump a base’s full structure (tables, fields, views) to JSON for ingestion by AI agents, documentation and version control.
  • Schema diff: compare two schema exports to see what was added, removed, renamed, or retyped.
  • Standards check: validate a base against a written set of naming and structure conventions.
  • Access audit: list collaborators and permissions across bases to see who can touch what.

It also includes an agent skill for writing Airtable scripts (both scripting-extension and automation scripts) that encodes the API’s quirks and limits to reduce the otherwise slow and manual iteration process.

These grew out of my CRM and database work for AI Safety organisations, where the Airtable base often is most of the institutional memory and heavily used and updated.