rudder-data-catalog

rudder-data-catalog is a skill for Claude Code from rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills. It costs 41 tokens per session (3,087 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A RudderStack guide for defining the events and fields used to describe product tracking. It also covers reusable data types and categories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or edit events, properties, categories, custom types, and validate or preview changes before applying them.
Why use it?
It helps keep tracking definitions consistent and prevents events from referring to fields that do not yet exist.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is rudder-cli validate -l ./data-catalog/events/.

Part of the rudder-core plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or edit events, properties, categories, custom types, and validate or preview changes before applying them.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills/rudder-data-catalog

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rudder-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,087 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 $0.00041 $0.03087
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01543
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00617
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00309

Measured 12d ago against content hash 25bf66429433, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rudder-data-catalog 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.

plugins/rudder-core/skills/rudder-data-catalog/SKILL.md · 458 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 458 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

RudderStack Data Catalog Management

This skill teaches how to create and manage the building blocks of instrumentation: events, properties, categories, and custom types.

When adding or editing catalog resources, author bottom-up (dependencies first) then validate and apply. The referencing order is strict — an event can't reference a property URN until that property exists.

digraph data_catalog_workflow {
    rankdir=TB;
    "1. Custom types (reusable shapes)" [shape=box];
    "2. Properties (vocabulary)" [shape=box];
    "3. Categories (grouping)" [shape=box];
    "4. Events (reference all of the above)" [shape=box];
    "rudder-cli validate -l ./" [shape=box];
    "Errors?" [shape=diamond];
    "Fix references / URNs / type config" [shape=box];
    "rudder-cli apply --dry-run -l ./" [shape=box];
    "Diff matches intent?" [shape=diamond];
    "rudder-cli apply -l ./" [shape=box];
    "Done" [shape=doublecircle];

    "1. Custom types (reusable shapes)" -> "2. Properties (vocabulary)";
    "2. Properties (vocabulary)" -> "3. Categories (grouping)";
    "3. Categories (grouping)" -> "4. Events (reference all of the above)";
    "4. Events (reference all of the above)" -> "rudder-cli validate -l ./";
    "rudder-cli validate -l ./" -> "Errors?";
    "Errors?" -> "Fix references / URNs / type config" [label="yes"];
    "Fix references / URNs / type config" -> "rudder-cli validate -l ./";
    "Errors?" -> "rudder-cli apply --dry-run -l ./" [label="no"];
    "rudder-cli apply --dry-run -l ./" -> "Diff matches intent?";
    "Diff matches intent?" -> "Fix references / URNs / type config" [label="no"];
    "Diff matches intent?" -> "rudder-cli apply -l ./" [label="yes"];
    "rudder-cli apply -l ./" -> "Done";
}

Why bottom-up: properties reference custom types; events reference properties, categories, and custom types. Creating in the reverse order means every intermediate validate fails on missing references. For the validate → dry-run → apply details (error formats, diff reading, auth prereqs), see the rudder-cli-workflow skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 458 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 458 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 25bf66429433

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rudder-data-catalog is a skill published in the GitHub repository rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills (18 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 3,087 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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