Cockroach Labs

Virag Tripathi

Sr. Principal AI & Ecosystem Engineer

I make CockroachDB a natural fit wherever people already build, from AI coding tools and agent frameworks to change data capture, orchestration, and the mainframe. Most of my work ships as open source in the projects developers actually use.

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AI developer tooling

CockroachDB, built into the tools developers use

CockroachDB now shows up as a first class option inside the major AI coding tools. I built and maintain the official plugins, all sharing one skills library and MCP backend, so an AI agent can stand up a local cluster and build an app that follows CockroachDB best practices by default.

Cursor plugin

Official CockroachDB plugin for the Cursor editor.

cockroachdb/cursor-plugin

Claude plugin

Official CockroachDB plugin for Claude and Claude Code.

cockroachdb/claude-plugin

GitHub Copilot plugin

Schema aware assistance and query generation in Copilot.

cockroachdb/copilot-plugin

OpenAI Codex plugin

CockroachDB development plugin for OpenAI Codex.

cockroachdb/codex-plugin

CockroachDB Skills

33+ agent skills across 9 operational domains, shared by every plugin. Install once, use across 40+ agents.

cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills

MCP server

Model Context Protocol backend that connects agents to CockroachDB.

cockroachdb/cockroachdb-mcp-server
Open source contributions

In the projects developers already run

The highest leverage way to grow an ecosystem is to meet developers where they are. These landed upstream, in the tools teams already depend on.

Google MCP Toolbox
CockroachDB added as an officially supported database, alongside Postgres, Spanner, and AlloyDB. Docs.
Debezium
CockroachDB as both a source, through a native changefeed connector, and a JDBC sink merged into Debezium core. Docs.
PeerDB
Native CockroachDB source connector for streaming changes into ClickHouse, built with the PeerDB and ClickHouse team.
Apache Airflow
Core Postgres compatibility work plus the SQLAlchemy dialect, so Airflow can run on CockroachDB.
LangChain
Official SDK with vector store, hybrid search, chat history, and a LangGraph checkpointer. Docs.
VectorDBBench
CockroachDB and C-SPANN vector support added to the standard vector database benchmark.
CockroachDB core
IBM Z (s390x) and Power (ppc64le) platform work, done with engineering, plus a cross architecture hybrid cluster investigation.
Tools I maintain

Things I built to make the work easier

crdb-dump

Export and import schema and data in SQL, JSON, YAML, or CSV.

viragtripathi/crdb-dump

cockroachdb-jdbc-wrapper

Automatic retry for transient errors, with no application code changes.

viragtripathi/cockroachdb-jdbc-wrapper

cockroachdb-analyzer

Modular diagnostic and performance analysis.

viragtripathi/cockroachdb-analyzer

cockroach-chaos-demo

Multi-region resilience demo you can run yourself.

viragtripathi/cockroach-chaos-demo

cockroachdb-airflow-poc

Reference for running Apache Airflow on CockroachDB.

viragtripathi/cockroachdb-airflow-poc

debezium-cockroachdb-examples

Runnable change data capture configurations.

viragtripathi/debezium-cockroachdb-examples
Distributed SQL AI agents & MCP Vector search Change data capture Orchestration Mainframe modernization Open source
Writing

I write about the work as it ships

Recent pieces cover agentic AI on watsonx with CockroachDB, running CockroachDB on IBM LinuxONE, multi source reasoning with the MCP Toolbox, hybrid vector search, and durable agents with LangChain and LangGraph.

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