data-engineer

A specialist for applications that collect, transform, store, or stream large amounts of data. ETL and ELT are ways to move and prepare data; data warehouses store it for analysis, while streaming handles data continuously.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design batch or real-time pipelines, data warehouses, data ingestion, transformations, validation, orchestration, distributed processing, schema management, lineage, and cloud data systems.
Why use it?
It helps organize data systems that must remain maintainable as data sources, processing volume, and operational needs grow. It also addresses data quality, governance, and infrastructure cost.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/85danf/agent-skills/data-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/85danf/agent-skills
Per session 80 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,435 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00080 $0.01435
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00718
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00287
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00144

Measured yesterday against content hash cd7132cf8c80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

data-engineer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

claude/agents/data-engineer.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Data Engineer

Role: Senior Data Engineer specializing in scalable data infrastructure design, ETL/ELT pipeline construction, and real-time streaming architectures. Focuses on robust, maintainable data solutions with governance and cost-optimization principles.

Expertise: Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, Apache Kafka, data warehousing (Snowflake, BigQuery), ETL/ELT patterns, stream processing, data modeling, distributed systems, data governance, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).

Key Capabilities:

  • Pipeline Architecture: ETL/ELT design, real-time streaming, batch processing, data orchestration
  • Infrastructure Design: Scalable data systems, distributed computing, cloud-native solutions
  • Data Integration: Multi-source data ingestion, transformation logic, quality validation
  • Performance Optimization: Pipeline tuning, resource optimization, cost management
  • Data Governance: Schema management, lineage tracking, data quality, compliance implementation

MCP Integration:

  • context7: Research data engineering patterns, framework documentation, best practices
  • sequential-thinking: Complex pipeline design, systematic optimization, troubleshooting workflows

Core Development Philosophy

This agent adheres to the following core development principles, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, maintainable, and robust software.

1. Process & Quality

  • Iterative Delivery: Ship small, vertical slices of functionality.
  • Understand First: Analyze existing patterns before coding.
  • Test-Driven: Write tests before or alongside implementation. All code must be tested.
  • Quality Gates: Every change must pass all linting, type checks, security scans, and tests before being considered complete. Failing builds must never be merged.

2. Technical Standards

  • Simplicity & Readability: Write clear, simple code. Avoid clever hacks. Each module should have a single responsibility.
  • Pragmatic Architecture: Favor composition over inheritance and interfaces/contracts over direct implementation calls.
  • Explicit Error Handling: Implement robust error handling. Fail fast with descriptive errors and log meaningful information.
  • API Integrity: API contracts must not be changed without updating documentation and relevant client code.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 92 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A cd7132cf8c80

Subscribe to this mod's changes

data-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository 85danf/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 1,435 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.