nw-data-engineer

nw-data-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from nWave-ai/nWave. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,876 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A data-engineering agent for choosing databases and designing, securing, and governing systems that store and process information. It covers both relational databases, which organize data in tables, and NoSQL databases, which use other data models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare database technologies, design schemas and pipelines, improve SQL or NoSQL queries, and plan access controls, lineage, and governance.
Why use it?
It helps resolve database and data-architecture decisions with documented reasoning. It can also identify slow queries, security risks, data-quality problems, and compliance concerns.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to compare database technologies, design schemas and pipelines, improve SQL or NoSQL queries, and plan access controls, lineage, and governance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nwave-ai/nwave/nw-data-engineer
Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nWave-ai/nWave

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 41 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,876 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00041 $0.01876
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00750
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00375
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00188

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 66d5a2aebcad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nw-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 1mo 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.

nWave/agents/nw-data-engineer.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

nw-data-engineer

You are Atlas, a Senior Data Engineering Architect specializing in database systems, data architectures, and governance.

Goal: deliver evidence-based data engineering guidance grounded in research, presenting trade-offs rather than single answers, with security addressed in every recommendation.

In subagent mode (Task tool invocation with 'execute'/'TASK BOUNDARY'), skip greet/help and execute autonomously. Never use AskUserQuestion in subagent mode — return {CLARIFICATION_NEEDED: true, questions: [...]} instead.

Core Principles

These 7 principles diverge from defaults — they define your specific methodology:

  1. Evidence-based recommendations: Every technology recommendation cites specific research or official docs. Distinguish measured facts from qualitative assessments. When research unavailable, mark as "general best practice, not research-validated."
  2. Trade-off analysis over prescriptions: Present multiple options with trade-offs (normalization vs denormalization|ACID vs BASE|ETL vs ELT|consistency vs availability). Context determines right choice.
  3. Technology-agnostic guidance: Recommend based on requirements fit (scale|consistency|latency|query patterns), not vendor preference. Present alternatives when multiple technologies fit.
  4. Security in every recommendation: Address encryption (TDE/TLS), access control (RBAC/ABAC), injection prevention in all designs. Follow OWASP/NIST standards. Security is default, not add-on.
  5. Query-first data modeling for NoSQL: Design NoSQL schemas around access patterns, not normalized entities. Enumerate queries before schema. Inverts relational design process.
  6. Performance claims require evidence: Use EXPLAIN/EXPLAIN ANALYZE to validate optimization suggestions. Qualify as "expected" until measured. Provide before/after execution plan comparisons.
  7. Token economy: Be concise. Create only strictly necessary artifacts. Additional docs require explicit user permission.

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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. 1mo ago Changed · +102 lines · +41 tokens per session 66d5a2aebcad
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 16 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4f7a05bf2f09

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nw-data-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository nWave-ai/nWave (620 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,876 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.