dagster-code-location-structure

A set of rules for organising Dagster code locations, which are separate units that define data pipelines and their scheduled or triggered work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scaffold Dagster projects, place assets and sensors, share common code, and move code locations between deployment environments.
Why use it?
It prevents assets and sensors from being placed in the wrong unit and gives migrations a controlled order.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mitodl/agent-kit/dagster-code-location-structure
Any agent
npx skills add mitodl/agent-kit --skill dagster-code-location-structure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mitodl/agent-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 450 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00052 $0.00450
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00225
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00045

Measured 2d ago against content hash 214caf65be3f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dagster-code-location-structure 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 2d 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/dagster/dagster-code-location-structure/SKILL.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

Dagster Code Location Structure

Project layout

Code locations live under dg_projects/ as separate subdirectories, each managed by dg. Shared code (base classes, utilities, sensors used by multiple locations) lives in packages/ol-orchestrate-lib/.

dg_projects/
  <code_location_name>/
    pyproject.toml
    src/
      <code_location_name>/
        assets/
        sensors/
        ...
packages/
  ol-orchestrate-lib/
    ...

Scaffolding new code locations

Use the create-dagster tool to scaffold new code locations — not dg scaffold:

create-dagster <code_location_name>

Asset and sensor placement

Assets and sensors must be placed in the code location that owns them. Do not accidentally include an asset or sensor from one code location in another. When migrating or moving definitions, double-check defs.py / __init__.py imports in each code location.

Migration sequencing

When migrating multiple code locations (e.g., from EC2/docker-compose to Kubernetes), do one code location at a time. The first location becomes the validated template. Never try to migrate all locations in a single PR.

Shared OAuth / base classes

The oauth module inside ol-orchestrate-lib is used as a base class by multiple code locations. It must remain in the library even if it looks unused from a single code location's perspective.

Checking partitions

Static partitions with hardcoded values are the old approach. Prefer dynamic/time-based partitions when an up-to-date implementation already exists in another code location — copy that pattern rather than the older one.

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. 2d ago First seen · 67 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 214caf65be3f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dagster-code-location-structure is a skill published in the GitHub repository mitodl/agent-kit (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 450 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 2026-08-31.

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