kafka-schema-review

kafka-schema-review is a skill for Claude Code from lensesio/agentic-engineering-for-apache-kafka. It costs 89 tokens per session (1,550 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review tool for Kafka message schemas, including Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema. A schema defines the fields and data types that Kafka messages are expected to contain.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare registered schemas with code, check compatibility and evolution practices, detect breaking changes and schema drift, and create a review report.
Why use it?
It can reveal changes that would break applications reading a topic, missing fallback values, naming problems, or differences between the code and the live Kafka system.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the kafka-skills plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare registered schemas with code, check compatibility and evolution practices, detect breaking changes and schema drift, and create a review report.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lensesio/agentic-engineering-for-apache-kafka/kafka-schema-review
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 lensesio/agentic-engineering-for-apache-kafka --skill kafka-schema-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lensesio/agentic-engineering-for-apache-kafka

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kafka-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,550 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00089 $0.01550
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00775
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00310
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00155

Measured 12d ago against content hash 78619485ecc7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kafka-schema-review 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 12d 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.

skills/kafka-schema-review/SKILL.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kafka Schema Evolution Review

Reviews schema changes for compatibility and evolution best practices. A single breaking schema change can take down every consumer of a topic.

Target environment: $ARGUMENTS

Workflow

Copy this checklist and track your progress:

Schema Review Progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Fetch registered schemas
- [ ] Step 2: Scan codebase for schema files
- [ ] Step 3: Detect breaking changes
- [ ] Step 4: Check schema quality
- [ ] Step 5: Check schema drift
- [ ] Step 6: Generate report
  1. Fetch registered schemas from the live cluster via Lenses MCP
  2. Scan codebase for schema definition files (see references/compatibility-rules.md for file types)
  3. Detect breaking changes against compatibility rules in references/compatibility-rules.md
  4. Check schema quality against best practices
  5. Check schema drift between repo and cluster
  6. Report findings with migration guidance

Step 1: Fetch Registered Schemas

Use Lenses MCP tools to get the current state of schemas in the cluster:

  • list_topic_metadata - get all schemas registered against topics (key and value)
  • get_topic_metadata - get the current schema for a specific topic
  • get_dataset - get dataset field-level details, policies and governance metadata
  • list_datasets with schema_format filter - find all topics using a given format (AVRO, JSON, PROTOBUF)

Expected output: Map of topics to their registered schemas (key and value) with format and version info.

Validation: If no schemas are registered, note this as a governance gap and proceed with codebase-only analysis.

Step 2: Codebase Inspection

Search the codebase for schema definition files. Consult references/compatibility-rules.md for the full list of file types and search patterns.

Use git diff to identify recently changed schema files if reviewing a PR.

Step 3: Compatibility Checks

For each schema change, evaluate against the compatibility rules in references/compatibility-rules.md. Check backward, forward and full compatibility depending on the topic's configured compatibility level.

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 12d ago First seen · 174 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 78619485ecc7

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kafka-schema-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository lensesio/agentic-engineering-for-apache-kafka (57 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,550 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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