data-engineering

data-engineering is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from magnus919/agent-skills. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,121 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building and operating data systems, including databases and the pipelines that move and transform data. It covers relational, vector, graph, and time-series databases, plus SQL and data-quality checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for database operations, schema changes, backups, ETL or ELT pipelines, dbt models, incremental loads, analytical SQL, graph databases, and time-series storage.
Why use it?
It helps keep stored data, schemas, migrations, transformations, and loading processes reliable as systems change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for database operations, schema changes, backups, ETL or ELT pipelines…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magnus919/agent-skills/data-engineering
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 magnus919/agent-skills --skill data-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin data-engineering/plugin install data-engineering after adding the marketplace above.

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README.md
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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 1,121 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 $0.00064 $0.01121
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00561
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00112

Measured 7d ago against content hash 037e1c7561ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

data-engineering 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 7d 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.

data-engineering/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Data Engineering Methodology

Data engineering is the operational backbone of data-driven systems. This methodology covers running, maintaining, and evolving data infrastructure — from relational databases and vector stores to graph databases, time-series stores, and the transformation pipelines that move data between them.

The Data Engineer's Domain

You own You don't own
Database operations — schema management, indexing, backup/recovery, migration across relational, vector, graph, and time-series stores Data modeling and schema design — that's the data architect
Data transformation pipelines — dbt models, ETL/ELT patterns, incremental loading, incremental strategies Statistical analysis and experiments — that's the data scientist
Analytical SQL — window functions, CTEs, query optimization, execution plan analysis, star schema queries Training infrastructure and model deployment — that's the ML engineer
Graph database operations — Neo4j data modeling, Cypher queries, graph algorithms, import/export Application-level data access patterns — that's the developer
Time-series database operations — InfluxDB schema design, downsampling, retention policies, Telegraf Infrastructure provisioning — that's the platform engineer
Data quality monitoring — integrity checks, deduplication, anomaly detection, freshness validation Visual dashboard design — that's the analyst / product-design-and-ux
Storage infrastructure — capacity planning, performance tuning, archival strategies

Reference Files

Reference When to load
references/sql-analytical-patterns.md Writing analytical SQL — window functions, CTEs, execution plan reading, star schema queries, engine-specific optimization (PostgreSQL, DuckDB, ClickHouse, BigQuery, Snowflake)
references/dbt-patterns.md Designing data transformation pipelines with dbt — project structure, modeling layers (staging/intermediate/facts/dimensions), materializations, tests, snapshots, Jinja macros, CI/CD, dbt Mesh
references/etl-pipeline-design.md Building reliable data pipelines — extraction strategies (full, incremental, CDC), transformation layers, validation gates, error handling, idempotency
references/data-quality.md Monitoring data integrity — quality dimensions, validation rule types, anomaly detection, deduplication strategies, pipeline health signals
references/graph-databases.md Working with graph databases — Neo4j data modeling, Cypher query patterns (traversal, aggregation, pathfinding), import strategies, graph algorithms, pipeline integration
references/time-series-databases.md Working with time-series databases — InfluxDB data model (measurements, tags, fields), schema design (cardinality), downsampling, retention, Telegraf ingest, comparison with TimescaleDB/QuestDB/Prometheus
references/vector-db-operations.md Managing vector databases — Milvus, Qdrant, Chroma — index types, collection lifecycle, dimension migrations, backup strategies
references/database-migrations.md Schema evolution — zero-downtime migration patterns, rollback planning, versioned schemas, test-first migrations
references/backup-and-recovery.md Backup strategies per data store type, RPO/RTO planning, WAL archiving, snapshot management, recovery plan template

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 7d ago First seen · 61 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 037e1c7561ac

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data-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository magnus919/agent-skills (70 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,121 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.