Airtable Utils
Schema export, schema diffing, standards checking, and access auditing for Airtable bases — plus an agent skill for writing correct Airtable scripts
Technologies
Airtable is the operational backbone of many small organisations, and it has no native tooling for the questions a responsible admin asks: what changed in this base since last month? Does our structure follow our own conventions? Who has access to what?
Airtable Utils answers those:
- Schema export — dump a base’s full structure (tables, fields, views) to JSON for documentation and version control.
- Schema diff — compare two exports to see exactly what was added, removed, renamed, or retyped between snapshots.
- Standards check — validate a base against a written set of naming and structure conventions, producing a compliance report.
- Access audit — scrape collaborator and permission data across bases to see who can touch what.
It also includes a comprehensive agent skill for writing Airtable scripts — both scripting-extension and automation scripts — encoding the API’s quirks and limits (like its 50-fetch ceiling) so generated scripts are correct the first time.
These grew directly out of my CRM and database work for AI Safety organisations, where the base is the institutional memory and silent schema drift is a real operational risk.