synth-data-generate

synth-data-generate is a skill for Claude Code from microsoft/hve-core. It costs 42 tokens per session (3,534 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A guarded workflow for creating synthetic data—artificial data that follows the shape and patterns of a real source—inside a Jupyter notebook. It can use an existing schema, file, or data description as a reference after a required approval check passes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a new synthetic dataset or prepare a local replacement for approved source data. It is intended for work in Jupyter notebooks and requires a data-operations preflight first.
Why use it?
It prevents data generation from starting before the required data-handling decision is current and approved. It also keeps the generated data tied to the requested subject and any supplied reference structure.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create a new synthetic dataset or prepare a local replacement for approved source data. It is intended for work in Jupyter notebooks and requires a data-operations preflight first.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/hve-core/synth-data-generate
About the project

HVE Core is a collection of agents, prompts, coding instructions, and skills for building repeatable software-development workflows with GitHub Copilot. It is intended for individuals and teams that want structured AI-assisted research, planning, implementation, and review, while the catalogue entries provide many of its reusable workflow components.

microsoft/hve-core · 1,606 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/hve-core --skill synth-data-generate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/hve-core

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,534 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00042 $0.03534
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.01414
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00707
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00353

Measured yesterday against content hash 097a2fcf1a9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

synth-data-generate scanned grade C 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 yesterday.

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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- cspell:ignore distinguishability tesseract pydatetime savefig scipy timedelta -->
.github/skills/data-science-engineering/synth-data-generate/SKILL.md · 269 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 269 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Synthetic Data Generator

Goal

Generate realistic, comprehensive synthetic data for subject in a Jupyter notebook only after the applicable dataops synthetic-data operation preflight passes. Use example_data when the user supplies an existing data source, schema, or file to use as a strict reference for structure and patterns.

Inputs

  • subject: Required. User query describing the subject for synthetic data generation.
  • example_data: Optional. Free-form input describing an existing data source, schema, or file to use as a reference for structure and patterns.

Required steps

Step 0: Validate synthetic-data operation preflight

  • Activate the dataops skill by stable name and read its synthetic-data operation contract.
  • Require a SYNTHETIC_DATA_OPERATION_V1 preflight record before creating a project, installing packages, creating a notebook, accessing a source, or generating data.
  • Run the dataops validate command. Continue only when the gate passes with a current approved applicable classification decision carrying data-owner authority.
  • Treat protected-attribute generation and subgroup evaluation as inactive unless current qualified decision references explicitly mark them applicable. Protected-attribute generation requires privacy, Responsible AI or fairness, and domain-owner roles. Subgroup evaluation requires Responsible AI or fairness and domain-owner roles plus every activated subgroup reference.
  • For replace-local, require one existing regular local file under a caller-approved root, a matching expected SHA-256 source digest, and current approved applicable data-owner replacement authority. Reject directories, links, remote stores, network shares, databases, APIs, and multi-target operations.
  • If validation fails, stop before any write or source access. Report only stable categories, record identifiers, counts, and digests, plus the smallest qualified-owner action needed to resume. Do not reproduce source values in chat or records.

Read the full file on GitHub · 269 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. yesterday Changed · -1 lines 097a2fcf1a9c
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 270 lines · 42 tokens per session scan C 19d2362b8839

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synth-data-generate is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/hve-core (1,606 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 3,534 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-08.

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