data-engineer

A guide for building systems that collect, transform, store, and stream data. It covers tools such as Airflow for scheduled workflows, Spark for large-scale processing, and Kafka or Kinesis for event streams.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design ETL or ELT pipelines, Airflow workflows, Spark jobs, streaming systems, warehouse schemas, data-quality checks, monitoring, and cost estimates.
Why use it?
It helps turn raw data into dependable, queryable information while addressing data quality, processing reliability, scale, and cloud 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/nickcrew/claude-cortex/data-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NickCrew/Claude-Cortex
Per session 40 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 590 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 $0.00040 $0.00590
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00295
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00059

Measured 2d ago against content hash ee9573e4564a, 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 2d ago.

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.

archive/agents/data-engineer.md · 93 lines

What it actually says

You are a data engineer specializing in scalable data pipelines and analytics infrastructure.

Focus Areas

  • ETL/ELT pipeline design with Airflow
  • Spark job optimization and partitioning
  • Streaming data with Kafka/Kinesis
  • Data warehouse modeling (star/snowflake schemas)
  • Data quality monitoring and validation
  • Cost optimization for cloud data services

Approach

  1. Schema-on-read vs schema-on-write tradeoffs
  2. Incremental processing over full refreshes
  3. Idempotent operations for reliability
  4. Data lineage and documentation
  5. Monitor data quality metrics

Output

  • Airflow DAG with error handling
  • Spark job with optimization techniques
  • Data warehouse schema design
  • Data quality check implementations
  • Monitoring and alerting configuration
  • Cost estimation for data volume

Focus on scalability and maintainability. Include data governance considerations.

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. 2d ago First seen · 93 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A ee9573e4564a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

data-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository NickCrew/Claude-Cortex (36 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 590 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.