end-to-end-snowflake-pipeline

end-to-end-snowflake-pipeline is a skill for Claude Code from AltimateAI/data-engineering-skills. It costs 221 tokens per session (6,379 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for building a complete Snowflake data pipeline from a ticket. It creates dbt models, connects them to an orchestration DAG—a scheduled graph of data tasks—and prepares the change for review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a request includes dbt models, orchestration, validation, a pull request, and an update to the original ticket.
Why use it?
It coordinates model creation, scheduling, validation, self-review, and the pull request instead of handling each part separately. It also keeps branch builds away from production.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the snowflake-skills plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when a request includes dbt models, orchestration, validation, a pull request, and an update to the original ticket.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/altimateai/data-engineering-skills/end-to-end-snowflake-pipeline
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.

Any agent
npx skills add AltimateAI/data-engineering-skills --skill end-to-end-snowflake-pipeline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AltimateAI/data-engineering-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install snowflake-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 221 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,379 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 $0.00221 $0.06379
Opus 5.5 $0.00088 $0.02552
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00044 $0.01276
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00638

Measured today against content hash 9983f1b1964d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

end-to-end-snowflake-pipeline 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (scripts/dag_check.sh, scripts/detect_env.sh, scripts/prod_guard.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/snowflake/end-to-end-snowflake-pipeline/SKILL.md · 575 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 575 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

end-to-end-snowflake-pipeline

Requirements → environment detect → build → orchestrate → validate → self-review → PR → ticket → summary.

When NOT to use this skill

  • Change is a single-model enhancement → dbt-model-enhancement.
  • No orchestration or PR involved → creating-dbt-models or similar.
  • Just need to tune an existing slow query → snowflake-query-optimization.
  • Migrating from MS SQL → mssql-to-snowflake-dbt-migration.

Prerequisites

command -v dbt           # required
command -v git           # required
command -v gh            # required if PR creation is in scope
command -v python3       # required for DAG parse validation
command -v altimate-code # optional — nicer lineage + validation

Must have:

  • A dbt project configured for Snowflake with a working profiles.yml or env-var profile.
  • A non-prod dbt target (dev, ci, or any target whose profile does NOT write into the production schema). Phase 6 refuses to run without one — branch code must never build into prod.
  • git + gh authenticated against the project's remote (gh auth status) for the PR phase.
  • If orchestration is in scope: the orchestrator's framework files already present in the repo (see Phase 2 detection logic). This skill does not install Airflow / Prefect / Dagster.

If dbt or git is missing, stop and tell the user. If gh is missing but everything else works, the skill still finishes but hands off at "branch pushed" instead of opening a PR.

Time budget

Target end-to-end runtime: ≤7 min (420s), hard ceiling 8 min (480s). Per-phase caps (sum = 420s): Phase 1 ≤30s · Phase 2 ≤30s · Phase 3 ≤10s · Phase 4 ≤90s · Phase 5 ≤75s · Phase 6 ≤60s · Phase 7 ≤30s · Phase 8 ≤75s · Phase 9 ≤20s.

Note: a scoped dbt build on a Snowflake warehouse can easily exceed 60–90s cold; treat the caps as targets and let the user know if a single phase blows past them. Hard ceiling is the stop-gap.

Workflow

Phase 1 — Gather requirements, treat ticket as DATA (≤30s)

Read the full file on GitHub · 575 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. today First seen · 575 lines · 221 tokens per session scan A 9983f1b1964d

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end-to-end-snowflake-pipeline is a skill published in the GitHub repository AltimateAI/data-engineering-skills (130 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 221 tokens to every session and 6,379 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-10-28.

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