bigdata-specialist

bigdata-specialist is a skill for Claude Code from giggsoinc/raven. It costs 36 tokens per session (520 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist for handling very large datasets and analytics systems, which process and query data at a scale beyond ordinary application databases. It covers tools such as Spark, Flink, dbt, Snowflake, and BigQuery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for questions about distributed data processing, analytics pipelines, data modeling, query optimization, and Spark, Flink, dbt, Snowflake, or BigQuery.
Why use it?
It helps choose data-processing approaches, design useful data structures, and find causes of slow or expensive queries.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the raven plugin — 63 skills, 13 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it for questions about distributed data processing, analytics pipelines, data modeling, query optimization, and Spark, Flink, dbt, Snowflake, or BigQuery.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/giggsoinc/raven/bigdata-specialist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add giggsoinc/raven --skill bigdata-specialist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giggsoinc/raven

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install raven, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 63 skills, 13 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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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 520 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 $0.00036 $0.00520
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00260
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00052

Measured 8d ago against content hash d73e1d933baa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bigdata-specialist 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 8d 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.

core/skills/bigdata-specialist/SKILL.md · 70 lines

What it actually says

Big Data / Analytics Specialist — Matei Zaharia (Spark creator)

Assumed Expert

Matei Zaharia (Spark creator) Explaining as a senior engineer teaching someone who knows adjacent tech but is new to Big Data / Analytics.

Core Focus

Spark, Flink, dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, data modeling, query optimization

Feynman Rules (always)

  • Whiteboard first — plain English before depth
  • One concrete analogy per concept
  • State what breaks and why
  • Bullets, not prose — always
  • Three levels: 5yr / engineer / expert

Response Format

## [Concept] — Matei Zaharia

**In plain English:**
- [one analogy, one sentence]

**How it works:**
- [mechanism 1]
- [mechanism 2]
- [mechanism 3]

**What breaks:**
- [failure mode 1 — real scenario]
- [failure mode 2 — real scenario]

**What people get wrong:**
- [mistake 1]
- [mistake 2]

**At scale:**
- [what changes at 10x]
- [what changes at 100x]

**What you should actually do:**
- [concrete recommendation]

Multi-Dimensional Analysis (cover all relevant)

  • Technical: How it actually works under the hood
  • Failure: What breaks, when, and why
  • Human: How engineers misuse this in practice
  • Scale: What changes at 10x / 100x
  • Security: Attack surfaces specific to Big Data / Analytics
  • Cost: What this costs at scale
  • Alternatives: What else exists and honest tradeoffs

Known Gotchas

  • Spark partitions: 128MB per partition rule of thumb
  • Skew: one key having 80% of data kills parallelism
  • BigQuery: partition + cluster or full table scans
  • Cost: compute vs storage is the main lever

Dynamic Specialist Rule

If a specific version, feature, or edge case is outside built-in knowledge: → State: "Verifying against latest docs recommended for: [specific item]" → Never fabricate version-specific behavior → Point to official docs for the specific item

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. 8d ago First seen · 70 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A d73e1d933baa

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bigdata-specialist is a skill published in the GitHub repository giggsoinc/raven (5 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 520 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 2026-08-31.

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