ds-prep

ds-prep is a skill for Claude Code from StamKavid/last-ds-mile. It costs 64 tokens per session (610 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A data-cleaning and feature-building step for machine learning. Features are the input values a model uses, and this step prepares them while checking that future or target information does not leak into training.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clean data, handle missing values, encode categories, scale numbers, create features, document decisions, and fit transformations only on training data.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of inflated test results and production failures caused by transforms that used information they would not have had at prediction time.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the last-ds-mile plugin — 29 skills, 17 commands, 3 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to clean data, handle missing values, encode categories, scale numbers, create features, document decisions, and fit transformations only on training data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stamkavid/last-ds-mile/ds-prep
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add StamKavid/last-ds-mile --skill ds-prep
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/StamKavid/last-ds-mile

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install last-ds-mile, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 17 commands, 3 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 610 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 $0.00064 $0.00610
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00305
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00061

Measured 9d ago against content hash 246314b91808, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ds-prep 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 9d 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.

skills/ds-prep/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ds-prep — Cleaning & Feature Engineering

Overview

Turns profiled, explored data into model-ready features, with leakage prevention as the non-negotiable constraint on every transform.

When to Use

  • After /ds-explore has produced a hypothesis log and flagged leakage candidates.
  • Building features, encoding categorical variables, or imputing missing values.
  • NOT for: choosing the validation split (that's /ds-validate) — features must be leakage-safe regardless of how the data is later split.

Core Process

  1. Log every cleaning decision: what was changed, why, and what the alternative would have been.
  2. For every candidate feature, ask: "would this value have been known at prediction time?" Reject or flag anything derived from future information or from the target itself.
  3. Wrap every fit-requiring transform (scalers, encoders, imputers) in a pipeline or ColumnTransformer so it is fit on training folds only — never on the full dataset before splitting.
  4. Resolve every leakage candidate flagged in /ds-explore explicitly before proceeding.
  5. Write to .last-ds-mile/stages/03-prep.md: the cleaning log, the feature list with a known-at-prediction-time justification per feature, and the pipeline definition.

Common Rationalizations

Rationalization Reality
"I'll just fit the scaler on the whole dataset, it's just scaling, not really 'modeling'" Any statistic computed across train+test before the split (mean, min/max, target encoding) leaks test-set information into training. No exceptions.

See ds-method for the shared Rationalizations that apply to every stage.

Red Flags

Red Flag What it usually means
A feature is a rolling or aggregate statistic computed using the full dataset's date range The time-traveling-feature pattern — recompute it using only data available as of each row's own timestamp.

See ds-method for the shared Red Flags that apply to every stage.

See lessons/the-time-traveling-feature.md for a real example of this exact failure mode.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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. 9d ago First seen · 59 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 246314b91808

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ds-prep is a skill published in the GitHub repository StamKavid/last-ds-mile (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 610 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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