pandera-polars

pandera-polars is a skill for Claude Code from skillmds/skillmd. It costs 112 tokens per session (1,923 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A runtime validation guide for Pandera schemas used with Polars dataframes. Polars is a tool for processing tabular data, while a schema defines expected columns, types, missing-value rules, and checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define and test Polars DataFrame or LazyFrame contracts, validate columns and values, and collect validation failures in data pipelines.
Why use it?
It helps catch invalid data at a pipeline boundary and makes rules about types, coercion, strictness, and collected errors explicit.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the data-ml plugin — 17 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to define and test Polars DataFrame or LazyFrame contracts, validate columns and values, and collect validation failures in data pipelines.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skillmds/skillmd/pandera-polars
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 skillmds/skillmd --skill pandera-polars
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skillmds/skillmd

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install data-ml, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

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Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,923 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.
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 $0.00112 $0.01923
Opus 5.5 $0.00045 $0.00769
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00385
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00192

Measured 4d ago against content hash f2aaeadb9f36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-23, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pandera-polars 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/inspect_pandera_polars.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/data-ml/skills/pandera-polars/SKILL.md · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pandera for Polars

Create executable Polars dataframe contracts whose backend, validation depth, coercion, failure aggregation, and pipeline boundary are explicit.

Boundary

Use this skill only for Pandera's Polars backend. Import it as pandera.polars; pandas, Ibis, PySpark, and Narwhals-backed behavior differs. Use the Polars skill for transformation semantics and this skill for runtime dataframe contracts. Do not replace ordinary Python object validation with a one-row dataframe schema.

Know the objects and overloaded words

Object Runtime meaning Use it for
DataFrameSchema An executable schema object containing Polars column and dataframe checks. Dynamic/programmatic schemas and schema composition.
Column A named column contract: dtype, nullability, requirement, uniqueness, coercion, and checks. Per-column structural and value rules.
Check A predicate contract evaluated by the backend. Domain constraints not captured by dtype/nullability.
DataFrameModel A class-declared schema compiled from annotations, Fields, checks, and config. Reusable named contracts with type-checker-friendly declarations.
Field Declarative column constraints inside a DataFrameModel. Built-in comparisons, membership, aliases, nullable/unique behavior.
PolarsData Custom-check input holding a LazyFrame and optional column key. Native vectorized Polars checks.
SchemaError / SchemaErrors One validation failure or an aggregate of failures. Machine-readable failure handling and diagnostics.

Two kinds of “lazy” must remain separate:

  • pl.LazyFrame is a deferred Polars query. Pandera's native Polars validation checks schema-level properties by default and does not automatically execute all data-level checks on an uncollected plan.
  • schema.validate(..., lazy=True) requests accumulation of multiple validation failures before raising; it does not make eager validation computationally lazy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 4d ago First seen · 187 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A f2aaeadb9f36

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pandera-polars is a skill published in the GitHub repository skillmds/skillmd (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 1,923 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-19.

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