Other internal tools

pkg/cmd/ contains roughly 70 distinct command directories. The major ones have their own pages; this page lists the rest with one-line descriptions and pointers.

Release engineering

Tool	What it does
pkg/cmd/release/	Cut releases, publish artifacts, update changelogs
pkg/cmd/publish-artifacts/	Push binaries to S3 / Docker Hub
pkg/cmd/run-pgo-build/	Profile-guided optimization build pipeline
pkg/cmd/protoc-gen-gogoroach/	CRDB-specific protobuf compiler plugin
pkg/cmd/protoc-gen-go-drpc/	DRPC plugin

Code generation

Tool	Output
pkg/cmd/sql-bootstrap-data/	Bootstrap data for new clusters (system table seeds)
pkg/cmd/generate-bazel-extra/	Extra Bazel rules generation
pkg/cmd/generate-spatial-ref-sys/	Spatial reference system tables
pkg/cmd/generate-import-fixtures/	IMPORT-test fixtures
pkg/cmd/generate-binary/	Stamp build metadata into binaries
pkg/cmd/generate-cgo/	Cgo helper generator
pkg/cmd/generate-distdir/	Distributable layout
pkg/cmd/generate-logictest/	Logic-test config files
pkg/cmd/generate-staticcheck/	Static-check config
pkg/cmd/generate-acceptance-tests/	Acceptance test wiring
pkg/cmd/generate-ash-inventory/	Active-session-history inventory
pkg/cmd/generate-metadata-tables/	pg_catalog metadata

CI and dev

Tool	What it does
pkg/cmd/bazci/	Adapter that runs Bazel tests in CI
pkg/cmd/ci-stress/	Stress-test runner for CI
pkg/cmd/github-post/, pkg/cmd/github-pull-request-make/	CI ↔ GitHub integration
pkg/cmd/flaky-test-notifier/	Identify and notify on flaky tests
pkg/cmd/whoownsit/	CODEOWNERS lookup
pkg/cmd/urlcheck/	Validate links in repo docs
pkg/cmd/skip-test/	Mark tests to skip
pkg/cmd/skiperrs/	Skip lint errors temporarily
pkg/cmd/skipped-tests/	Audit skipped tests
pkg/cmd/testfilter/	Filter test output
pkg/cmd/testowner/	Map tests to teams
pkg/cmd/uptodate/	Check if generated code is current
pkg/cmd/wraprules/	Wrap rules for OPS/Datadog
pkg/cmd/gen-metric-owners/	Generate metric-owners table

Performance

Tool	What it does
pkg/cmd/microbench-ci/	Microbench CI integration
pkg/cmd/roachprod-microbench/	Cross-revision benchmarks against roachprod clusters
pkg/cmd/roachprod-stress/	Stress harness using roachprod
pkg/cmd/zerosum/	Zero-sum data correctness probe
pkg/cmd/vecbench/	Vector-index benchmark

SQL fuzzing and comparison

Tool	What it does
pkg/cmd/smith/	sqlsmith driver
pkg/cmd/smithcmp/	Compare CRDB vs Postgres SQL output
pkg/cmd/smithtest/	smith integration tests
pkg/cmd/cmp-sql/	Compare two SQL implementations
pkg/cmd/cmp-protocol/	Compare two pgwire implementations
pkg/cmd/cmpconn/	Reusable connection-comparison harness
pkg/cmd/cr2pg/	Copy CRDB schemas/data to Postgres
pkg/cmd/reduce/	SQL test-case reducer

Cluster tooling

Tool	What it does
pkg/cmd/drt/, pkg/cmd/drt-run/, pkg/cmd/drtprod/	Deployment-replay tooling for long-running production-like clusters
pkg/cmd/allocsim/	Allocator simulator
pkg/cmd/gossipsim/	Gossip simulator
pkg/cmd/kv/	Old KV-only client (mostly historical)
pkg/cmd/tef/	Token expiration framework
pkg/cmd/tsdump2duck/	Convert tsdump to DuckDB for analysis

Misc

Tool	What it does
pkg/cmd/docgen/	Generate SQL grammar diagrams and docs
pkg/cmd/geoviz/	Visualize a geometry library result
pkg/cmd/fuzz/	Fuzz harness
pkg/cmd/mirror/	Mirror an upstream Go module
pkg/cmd/prereqs/	Bazel prerequisites checker
pkg/cmd/returncheck/	Check Go return-value usage
pkg/cmd/roachvet/	CRDB-specific Go vet plugin
pkg/cmd/rpc_node_shutdown.go (in cli)	Coordinated node shutdown helper

This list is intentionally non-exhaustive — see ls pkg/cmd for a full directory.