integration-patterns

integration-patterns is a skill for Claude Code from sethdford/claude-skills. It costs 40 tokens per session (632 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to connecting different software systems and services using scheduled data transfers, database-change tracking, event streams, or APIs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design ETL or ELT jobs, change-data-capture pipelines, event-driven integrations, API connections, or combinations of these patterns.
Why use it?
It helps you choose how data should move while accounting for speed, consistency, coupling, complexity, and repeated processing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the data-architecture plugin — 8 skills 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/sethdford/claude-skills/integration-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add sethdford/claude-skills --skill integration-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sethdford/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install data-architecture, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 632 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 5.1 $0.00040 $0.00632
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00316
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00063

Measured 6d ago against content hash 27bc8270f52f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

integration-patterns 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 6d 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.

architect/data-architecture/skills/integration-patterns/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Integration Patterns

Design robust data integrations between systems using time-tested patterns and technologies.

Context

You are integrating data from multiple systems. Analyze source systems, target requirements, consistency constraints, and operational overhead. Read existing integration code or architecture documents.

Domain Context

Based on Gregor Hohpe's Enterprise Integration Patterns and modern streaming:

  • ETL (Extract-Transform-Load): Scheduled batch jobs; simple but high latency
  • ELT (Extract-Load-Transform): Load raw data first, transform in warehouse; flexible but storage intensive
  • CDC (Change Data Capture): Capture database changes in realtime; high fidelity but complex
  • Event Streaming: Publish domain events to message brokers; loosely coupled but at-least-once semantics
  • API-Based Integration: Synchronous queries; simple but tightly coupled and slower

Instructions

  1. Choose Primary Pattern: Batch ETL (cost-effective, simple)? CDC (realtime, high fidelity)? Event streams (loosely coupled, asynchronous)? Synchronous APIs (simple, tight coupling)? Often hybrid approach.

  2. Design Idempotency: Ensure processing same data twice yields same result. Use unique identifiers, deduplication logic, or transactional sinks.

  3. Handle Schema Evolution: Source schema changes. Build transformation layer that's resilient to new fields, deprecated fields, type changes.

  4. Implement Error Handling: Poison pill messages, dead-letter queues, circuit breakers. Log failures with context for debugging and replay.

  5. Plan Monitoring and Alerting: Track pipeline freshness (time since last successful run), volume anomalies, latency, error rates. Alert on SLA violations.

Anti-Patterns

  • Direct Database-to-Database Integration: Source DB talks directly to sink. Result: tight coupling, hard to recover from failures, operational complexity. Guard: Introduce message queue or ETL layer for decoupling.
  • No Idempotency Guarantees: Retry logic assumes exactly-once delivery. Result: duplicate data, inconsistency. Guard: Always design for at-least-once; implement idempotency at sink.
  • Ignoring Backpressure: Source pushes data faster than sink can consume. Result: memory buildup, crashes. Guard: Implement queueing, rate limiting, or load shedding.
  • Monolithic Transformation Logic: All business logic in single transformation. Result: hard to test, reuse, evolve. Guard: Break into modular stages; test each independently.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 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. 6d ago First seen · 48 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 27bc8270f52f

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integration-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository sethdford/claude-skills (38 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 632 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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