data-governance

data-governance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 64 tokens per session (643 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to managing who owns data, what datasets and metrics mean, how reliable they are, who may access them, and where they came from. Data governance is the set of practices that keeps shared data understandable and accountable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create metric definitions, assign data owners, set access rules, document lineage, and improve data quality before wider sharing.
Why use it?
It helps resolve disagreements over metrics, identify authoritative datasets, and prevent unowned or poor-quality data from guiding decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the data-analytics plugin — 7 skills shipped together

About the project

headcount is an organization of independently installable Claude Code plugins, each grouping skills for a department such as finance, security, or demand generation. Claude Code users install the departments they need and invoke their skills for specialized work; the catalogue entries are skills and related agent tooling from that organization.

cbrock84/headcount · 1,176 stars · on GitHub

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 skills/cbrock84/headcount/data-governance
Any agent
npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill data-governance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install data-analytics, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 643 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 $0.00064 $0.00643
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00321
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00064

Measured 5d ago against content hash 7b697d19f9f0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

data-governance 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 5d 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.

plugins/data-analytics/skills/data-governance/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Data governance

Governance has a reputation for bureaucracy because it is usually implemented as approval queues. Done properly it is the opposite: it makes data usable without asking anyone.

Start with definitions, not policy

The highest-value governance artifact is a metric dictionary. For each business metric:

  • The plain-language definition — what it counts, and what it deliberately excludes.
  • The computation, unambiguously: source table, filters, time grain, timezone.
  • The owner — a person who decides when it is disputed.
  • Known caveats — when it is misleading, and what changed historically.

Most metric disputes dissolve once both parties read the same definition and discover they were measuring different things. Almost none require a policy.

Watch the ones that look obvious. "Active customer," "revenue," and "signup" each have half a dozen defensible definitions, and the ambiguity surfaces at the worst moment.

Ownership

Every dataset has a named owner accountable for its quality and access — a person, not a team. Unowned datasets decay, and nobody notices until a decision is made on stale data.

The owner should sit with the business meaning, not with the pipeline. The team that generates the data understands what it means; the platform team understands how it moves.

Quality, measured rather than asserted

Test data like code, continuously, and alert on failures:

  • Freshness — did it arrive when expected?
  • Volume — is the row count within its normal range? A silent drop to zero is the classic failure.
  • Uniqueness and nullity on key fields.
  • Referential integrity across joins.
  • Distribution — has the shape shifted in a way nothing explains?

The point is finding breakage before a decision is made on it. A pipeline that fails loudly is better than one that silently produces yesterday's numbers.

Access

Default to open for internal, non-personal data. Restrictive-by-default drives the shadow spreadsheet layer, which is genuinely less safe than a governed warehouse.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 5d ago First seen · 67 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 7b697d19f9f0

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data-governance is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,176 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 643 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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