data-pipeline

data-pipeline is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (5,500 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building data pipelines, which move and prepare data between systems. It covers ETL, where data is extracted, transformed, and loaded, and ELT, where transformation happens after loading.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan data extraction and transformation, define data rules, add monitoring and retries, handle changing schemas, and control pipeline costs.
Why use it?
It helps prevent duplicated data, unnoticed errors, hard-to-retry jobs, and unnecessary processing costs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan data extraction and transformation, define data rules, add monitoring and retries, handle changing schemas, and control pipeline costs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/data-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 cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills --skill data-pipeline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,500 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 411
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00036 $0.05500
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.02750
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.01100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00550

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8c656009730e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

data-pipeline scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 10d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

response = requests.get(f"https://api.example.com/orders?date={date}")
categories/data/data-pipeline/SKILL.md · 717 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 717 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Data Pipeline Design

Core Principles

Data pipelines are the arteries of modern data platforms. A well-designed pipeline is reliable, observable, idempotent, and cost-efficient. The following principles guide every decision:

  1. Idempotency First — Running a pipeline twice should produce the same result. This enables safe retries and backfills without data duplication.
  2. Observability by Default — Every stage must emit metrics, logs, and lineage metadata. If you can't see it, you can't fix it.
  3. Fail Gracefully — Assume failures will happen. Design dead letter queues, retry logic with exponential backoff, and alerting on anomalies.
  4. Incremental Processing — Process only what's changed. Full refreshes are for schema migrations and backfills only.
  5. Data Contracts — Define and enforce schemas at every boundary. Catch drift before it reaches downstream consumers.
  6. Separation of Concerns — Extract, transform, load are distinct phases. Each should be independently testable and debuggable.
  7. Cost Awareness — Every byte processed costs money. Partition, compress, and prune aggressively.

Pipeline Maturity Model

Level Name Characteristics
0 Ad-hoc Manual scripts, no scheduling, no error handling, no documentation
1 Scheduled Cron-based scheduling, basic retries, simple logging
2 Monitored Centralized logging, metrics dashboards, alerts on failure, basic data quality checks
3 Observable Full lineage tracking, freshness SLAs, schema validation, data contract enforcement
4 Self-healing Automated retry with backoff, dead letter queues, anomaly detection triggers auto-pause
5 Autonomous Adaptive pipelines that optimize themselves (auto-partitioning, dynamic resource allocation, intelligent backfilling)

Target: At minimum Level 3 for production pipelines. Level 4 for critical business data.


Read the full file on GitHub · 717 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. 10d ago First seen · 717 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 8c656009730e

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data-pipeline is a skill published in the GitHub repository cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills (471 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 5,500 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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