diff --git a/src/db/migration-column-extraction.ts b/src/db/migration-column-extraction.ts
index 930c4a705a..5d52e56774 100644
--- a/src/db/migration-column-extraction.ts
+++ b/src/db/migration-column-extraction.ts
@@ -163,7 +163,10 @@ export function extractSchemaEvents(rawStatement: string): SchemaEvent[] {
   const dropTableMatch = /^\s*DROP\s+TABLE\s+(?:IF\s+EXISTS\s+)?(\w+)/i.exec(statement);
   if (dropTableMatch) return [{ type: "drop_table", table: dropTableMatch[1]!.toLowerCase() }];
 
-  const renameColumnMatch = /\bALTER\s+TABLE\s+(\w+)\s+RENAME\s+COLUMN\s+(\w+)\s+TO\s+(\w+)/i.exec(statement);
+  // SQLite's ALTER TABLE grammar makes COLUMN optional for RENAME/DROP/ADD (#8368) -- `ALTER TABLE t ADD x
+  // INTEGER`, `DROP x`, and `RENAME x TO y` are all valid without it, so each regex tolerates the absent
+  // keyword instead of silently producing zero SchemaEvents for the terser (equally valid) form.
+  const renameColumnMatch = /\bALTER\s+TABLE\s+(\w+)\s+RENAME\s+(?:COLUMN\s+)?(\w+)\s+TO\s+(\w+)/i.exec(statement);
   if (renameColumnMatch) {
     const table = renameColumnMatch[1]!.toLowerCase();
     return [
@@ -172,10 +175,10 @@ export function extractSchemaEvents(rawStatement: string): SchemaEvent[] {
     ];
   }
 
-  const dropColumnMatch = /\bALTER\s+TABLE\s+(\w+)\s+DROP\s+COLUMN\s+(\w+)/i.exec(statement);
+  const dropColumnMatch = /\bALTER\s+TABLE\s+(\w+)\s+DROP\s+(?:COLUMN\s+)?(\w+)/i.exec(statement);
   if (dropColumnMatch) return [{ type: "remove_column", table: dropColumnMatch[1]!.toLowerCase(), column: dropColumnMatch[2]!.toLowerCase() }];
 
-  const addColumnMatch = /\bALTER\s+TABLE\s+(\w+)\s+ADD\s+COLUMN\s+(\w+)/i.exec(statement);
+  const addColumnMatch = /\bALTER\s+TABLE\s+(\w+)\s+ADD\s+(?:COLUMN\s+)?(\w+)/i.exec(statement);
   if (addColumnMatch) return [{ type: "define_column", table: addColumnMatch[1]!.toLowerCase(), column: addColumnMatch[2]!.toLowerCase() }];
 
   const createTableMatch = /\bCREATE\s+TABLE\s+(?:IF\s+NOT\s+EXISTS\s+)?(\w+)\s*\(([\s\S]*)\)[^)]*$/i.exec(statement);
diff --git a/test/unit/migration-column-extraction.test.ts b/test/unit/migration-column-extraction.test.ts
index 1ba9dc867e..57c7a68cd3 100644
--- a/test/unit/migration-column-extraction.test.ts
+++ b/test/unit/migration-column-extraction.test.ts
@@ -107,6 +107,21 @@ describe("extractSchemaEvents (#2551)", () => {
     ]);
   });
 
+  it("extracts ADD without the optional COLUMN keyword (#8368: valid terser SQLite syntax)", () => {
+    expect(extractSchemaEvents("ALTER TABLE widgets ADD color TEXT;")).toEqual([{ type: "define_column", table: "widgets", column: "color" }]);
+  });
+
+  it("extracts DROP without the optional COLUMN keyword (#8368: valid terser SQLite syntax)", () => {
+    expect(extractSchemaEvents("ALTER TABLE widgets DROP color;")).toEqual([{ type: "remove_column", table: "widgets", column: "color" }]);
+  });
+
+  it("extracts RENAME without the optional COLUMN keyword (#8368: valid terser SQLite syntax)", () => {
+    expect(extractSchemaEvents("ALTER TABLE widgets RENAME color TO hue;")).toEqual([
+      { type: "remove_column", table: "widgets", column: "color" },
+      { type: "define_column", table: "widgets", column: "hue" },
+    ]);
+  });
+
   it("returns [] for a statement with no schema-shape effect (CREATE INDEX, INSERT)", () => {
     expect(extractSchemaEvents("CREATE INDEX widgets_name_idx ON widgets (name);")).toEqual([]);
     expect(extractSchemaEvents("INSERT INTO widgets (name) VALUES ('x');")).toEqual([]);