airflow-dag-patterns

airflow-dag-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. It costs 42 tokens per session (367 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of patterns for building Apache Airflow DAGs, which are scheduled workflows made of connected tasks. It covers data pipelines, custom tasks, checks that wait for conditions, testing, deployment, and failed-run troubleshooting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design and deploy Airflow data pipelines, add operators or sensors, test workflows, investigate failed runs, and plan retries or backfills.
Why use it?
It helps avoid fragile schedules, repeated data, unclear dependencies, and unsafe production changes. It also gives a consistent way to test and operate Airflow workflows.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design and deploy Airflow data pipelines, add operators or sensors, test workflows, investigate failed runs, and plan retries or backfills.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/airflow-dag-patterns
About the project

AAS Core is a local control plane for coding agents that lets them search a large catalogue of skills, choose a stack, validate it, and create a reproducible plan. It is used to assemble and review agent workflows through its CLI, local MCP server, catalogue, plugins, and Workbench. The catalogue add-ons provide the skills, plugins, bundles, and workflows that AAS Core helps agents select and validate.

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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.

Any agent
npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill airflow-dag-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 367 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 39
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00042 $0.00367
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00183
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00037

Measured 6d ago against content hash 94a41e7557ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

airflow-dag-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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/airflow-dag-patterns/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

Apache Airflow DAG Patterns

Production-ready patterns for Apache Airflow including DAG design, operators, sensors, testing, and deployment strategies.

Use this skill when

  • Creating data pipeline orchestration with Airflow
  • Designing DAG structures and dependencies
  • Implementing custom operators and sensors
  • Testing Airflow DAGs locally
  • Setting up Airflow in production
  • Debugging failed DAG runs

Do not use this skill when

  • You only need a simple cron job or shell script
  • Airflow is not part of the tooling stack
  • The task is unrelated to workflow orchestration

Instructions

  1. Identify data sources, schedules, and dependencies.
  2. Design idempotent tasks with clear ownership and retries.
  3. Implement DAGs with observability and alerting hooks.
  4. Validate in staging and document operational runbooks.

Refer to resources/implementation-playbook.md for detailed patterns, checklists, and templates.

Safety

  • Avoid changing production DAG schedules without approval.
  • Test backfills and retries carefully to prevent data duplication.

Resources

  • resources/implementation-playbook.md for detailed patterns, checklists, and templates.

Limitations

  • Use this skill only when the task clearly matches the scope described above.
  • Do not treat the output as a substitute for environment-specific validation, testing, or expert review.
  • Stop and ask for clarification if required inputs, permissions, safety boundaries, or success criteria are missing.
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. 6d ago First seen · 50 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 94a41e7557ed

Subscribe to this mod's changes

airflow-dag-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (46,230 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 367 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 2026-09-05.