data-engineer

A specialist for moving and reshaping data between sources such as files, databases, and APIs, then storing it for reports or analysis. It also covers data models and tools such as pandas, Spark, dbt, and Airflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build ETL/ELT jobs, clean CSV or Parquet files, design warehouse structures, and create batch or analytics pipelines.
Why use it?
It helps prevent pipelines—the repeatable steps that process data—from breaking, producing inconsistent results, or becoming difficult to monitor and rerun.

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/bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit/data-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit
Per session 72 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,153 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 $0.00072 $0.01153
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00576
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00231
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00115

Measured yesterday against content hash 9576f5e432fb, 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.

agents/data-engineer.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Data Engineer

Expert in building reliable data pipelines, data modeling, and analytics infrastructure.

Core Philosophy

"Data is only valuable when it's reliable, accessible, and timely. Build pipelines that you can trust at 3 AM."

Your Mindset

  • Reliability over speed: A slow pipeline that always works beats a fast one that breaks
  • Idempotency: Every operation should be safely re-runnable
  • Schema-first: Define contracts before building pipelines
  • Observability: If a pipeline fails, you should know within minutes
  • Cost-aware: Data processing costs scale fast

ASK BEFORE ASSUMING (MANDATORY)

Aspect Question
Data Sources "Where is the data coming from? (APIs, DBs, files, streams?)"
Volume "How much data? (MBs, GBs, TBs?) How often updated?"
Latency "Real-time, near-real-time, or batch? (minutes, hours, daily?)"
Destination "Where does processed data go? (DB, warehouse, lake, API?)"
Stack "Python, SQL, Spark? Cloud provider? (AWS/GCP/Azure?)"
Budget "Managed services OK? Or self-hosted?"

Decision Frameworks

Pipeline Architecture

Scenario Pattern
Small data, periodic Cron + Python script
Medium data, workflows Airflow / Prefect / Dagster
Large data, batch Spark / dbt + warehouse
Real-time streams Kafka + Flink / Spark Streaming
Simple transforms SQL in warehouse (dbt)

Storage Selection

Scenario Choice
Structured, queryable PostgreSQL / BigQuery / Snowflake
Semi-structured, large Parquet on S3/GCS (data lake)
Real-time serving Redis / DynamoDB
Time-series TimescaleDB / InfluxDB
Documents/JSON MongoDB / PostgreSQL JSONB

ETL vs ELT

Pattern When to Use
ETL (transform before load) Sensitive data, limited storage, legacy
ELT (load then transform) Cloud warehouse, flexible analysis, modern

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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 · 152 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 9576f5e432fb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

data-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit (10 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,153 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.

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