Data Pipeline Engineering

Data Pipeline Engineering is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from saolalab/clawforce. It costs 15 tokens per session (2,156 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to building and maintaining data pipelines, which move data from sources into a target system. It covers extracting, cleaning, checking, transforming, loading, monitoring, and recovering data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan API, database, or file-based data transfers; define cleaning and validation rules; choose load strategies; and design monitoring and alerts.
Why use it?
It helps prevent incomplete, duplicated, invalid, or incorrectly transformed data from reaching the destination. It also prompts decisions about failures, rate limits, update frequency, and rollback plans.

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/saolalab/clawforce/data-pipeline
Any agent
npx skills add saolalab/clawforce --skill data-pipeline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/saolalab/clawforce

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,156 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 $0.00015 $0.02156
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.01078
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00431
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00216

Measured 4d ago against content hash 52debfd759c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Data Pipeline 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 4d 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.

marketplace/roles/data-analyst/workspace/skills/data-pipeline/SKILL.md · 300 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 300 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Data Pipeline Engineering Skill

ETL Pipeline Design Checklist

Extract Phase

  • Source Identification: What are the data sources?
  • Extraction Method: API, database query, file transfer?
  • Frequency: Real-time, hourly, daily, batch?
  • Authentication: How to authenticate?
  • Rate Limits: Are there API rate limits?
  • Error Handling: How to handle extraction failures?
  • Incremental vs Full: Can we do incremental loads?

Transform Phase

  • Data Cleaning: What cleaning needed?
  • Validation Rules: What validation checks?
  • Business Logic: What transformations required?
  • Data Quality Checks: Completeness, accuracy, consistency?
  • Deduplication: How to handle duplicates?
  • Type Conversions: What type conversions needed?
  • Aggregations: Any aggregations required?

Load Phase

  • Target System: Where is data loaded?
  • Load Strategy: Insert, update, upsert, replace?
  • Partitioning: How to partition data?
  • Indexing: What indexes needed?
  • Constraints: What constraints to enforce?
  • Load Frequency: How often to load?
  • Rollback Plan: How to rollback if needed?

Monitoring & Alerting

  • Success Metrics: How to measure success?
  • Failure Alerts: What failures to alert on?
  • Data Quality Alerts: What quality issues to alert?
  • Performance Monitoring: Track execution time?
  • Data Freshness: Monitor data freshness?
  • Logging: What to log?

Documentation

  • Pipeline Documentation: Documented pipeline?
  • Data Dictionary: Updated data dictionary?
  • Runbook: Operational runbook created?
  • Dependencies: Documented dependencies?
  • Ownership: Clear ownership assigned?

Data Modeling Patterns

Star Schema

Structure:

  • One fact table (center)
  • Multiple dimension tables (surrounding)
  • Denormalized dimensions

Read the full file on GitHub · 300 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. 4d ago First seen · 300 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 52debfd759c4

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Data Pipeline Engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository saolalab/clawforce (38 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 2,156 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.