apache-iceberg-knowledge-patch

A reference guide for Apache Iceberg, a table format for storing and managing large analytical datasets. It focuses on compatibility between Iceberg, data-processing engines, catalogs, file formats, and table versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when implementing, reviewing, upgrading, or operating Iceberg tables and integrations, especially when working with manifests, catalogs, encryption, deletion vectors, or remote planning.
Why use it?
It helps prevent changes that work in one component but break readers, writers, metadata, cleanup, or other parts of the data system.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the knowledge-patch plugin — 57 skills, 1 hook shipped together

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/nevaberry/nevaberry-plugins/apache-iceberg-knowledge-patch
Any agent
npx skills add Nevaberry/nevaberry-plugins --skill apache-iceberg-knowledge-patch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Nevaberry/nevaberry-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install knowledge-patch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills, 1 hook.

Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,172 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 $0.00012 $0.02172
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.01086
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00434
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00217

Measured 3d ago against content hash bc724d01fe52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apache-iceberg-knowledge-patch 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 3d 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.

plugins/knowledge-patch/patches-claude/apache-iceberg-knowledge-patch/SKILL.md · 209 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apache Iceberg Knowledge Patch

Use this skill when implementing, reviewing, upgrading, or operating Apache Iceberg tables and integrations. Start from the project's pinned Iceberg, engine, and table-format versions. Treat manifests, metadata JSON, catalog configuration, code, and tests as the authority for the deployment in front of you.

How to use this skill

  1. Identify the Iceberg library/runtime version, engine version, catalog type, file formats, and table format version.
  2. Read the compatibility and runtime notes before changing dependencies.
  3. Select the reference for the subsystem being changed.
  4. Check cross-cutting effects: format-v3 lineage and deletion vectors affect readers, rewrites, statistics, and cleanup; encryption affects metadata and file I/O; remote planning affects REST authorization and credentials.
  5. Preserve the existing table's format and operational invariants unless the task explicitly includes a migration.
  6. Verify behavior with the actual engine and catalog combination. Features in core are not automatically supported by every Spark, Flink, REST, or file- format path.

Reference index

Reference Topics
compatibility-and-runtime.md Java, Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Hive, removed artifacts, API caveats
table-format-types-and-schema.md Format v3/v4, row lineage, deletion vectors, Variant, geo, defaults, schema semantics
catalog-rest-and-security.md REST protocol, scan planning, catalogs, authentication, encryption, cloud credentials
spark.md Spark procedures, rewrites, metadata columns, streaming, migration, Variant
flink-kafka-and-streaming.md Flink sources/sinks and maintenance, Kafka Connect ingestion
storage-formats-and-io.md Parquet, Avro, ORC, Arrow, file-format registry, ADLS and object-store I/O
maintenance-statistics-and-rewrites.md Expiration, partition/content statistics, rewrite planning, events and metrics

Read the full file on GitHub · 209 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. 3d ago First seen · 209 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A bc724d01fe52

Subscribe to this mod's changes

apache-iceberg-knowledge-patch is a skill published in the GitHub repository Nevaberry/nevaberry-plugins (24 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 2,172 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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