kaggle-competition-type-strategy

kaggle-competition-type-strategy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from topprismdata/cultivating-ml-agent. It costs 145 tokens per session (2,418 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing an approach based on the kind of Kaggle competition you have entered. Kaggle is a website where people build models and submit predictions or code for scored challenges.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a competition, deciding whether to adapt a public notebook or build your own model, planning submissions, and choosing how to validate results.
Why use it?
Different competition formats have different rules, scoring methods, hardware needs, submission limits, and useful validation methods. Recognising the format helps you spend time and submissions appropriately.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when starting a competition, deciding whether to adapt a public notebook or build your own model, planning submissions, and choosing how to validate results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/topprismdata/cultivating-ml-agent/kaggle-competition-type-strategy
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add topprismdata/cultivating-ml-agent --skill kaggle-competition-type-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/topprismdata/cultivating-ml-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 145 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,418 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
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Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.01209
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00484
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00242

Measured 11d ago against content hash 70adf037c517, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kaggle-competition-type-strategy 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 11d 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/examples/kaggle-competition-type-strategy/SKILL.md · 207 lines

How it starts

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Kaggle Competition Type Strategy

The 6 Competition Types

Kaggle competitions are NOT all the same. The type determines your entire strategy.

Type 1: Standard Prediction (Tabular)

Examples: House Prices, TPS series, Spaceship Titanic, s6e7 Mechanism: Upload CSV file. Scored immediately on fixed test set. Scoring: Deterministic (RMSE, AUC, logloss — same formula every time) Public kernel value: ★★★★★ (best public kernel ≈ 95-99% of winning score) GPU needed: Usually no (CPU GBDT sufficient) Quota: 5/day, no convergence delay

Strategy:

  1. Day 1: Fork best public kernel → submit → establish baseline
  2. Day 2-3: AutoGluon best_quality → compare with public → blend if complementary
  3. Day 4-7: Feature engineering (highest ROI lever for tabular)
  4. Day 8+: Model diversity (LGB+XGB+CAT blend), pseudo-labeling (cautious)
  5. Final: Submit best blend, stop tuning 24h before deadline

Validation: 5-fold StratifiedKFold + adversarial validation. Trust OOF if N>10K.

Type 2: Code Competition (Notebook Required)

Examples: ROGII Wellbore, Biohub Cell Tracking, NeuroGolf Mechanism: Submit Kaggle Notebook. Runs on hidden test set. No internet. Scoring: Deterministic on hidden test (may differ significantly from public) Public kernel value: ★★★★☆ (fork is main strategy, but artifacts/dependencies) GPU needed: Often yes (UNet, LLM inference, model training) Quota: 5/day or 10/day, kernel run time limit (9-12h)

Strategy:

  1. Day 1: Read top 10 public kernels. Identify required datasets (artifacts).
  2. Day 2: Fork best kernel. Add ALL required datasets as inputs. Push → verify COMPLETE.
  3. Day 3: If kernel ERRORs → read log → fix dependencies (see code-competition-artifact-pipeline)
  4. Day 4-7: Modify pipeline (trim crashing components, tune parameters)
  5. Final: Ensure kernel COMPLETES (ERROR → no score, even if submission.csv exists)

Critical: Code competitions do NOT score ERROR-status kernels. A kernel that crashes mid-pipeline produces NO submission, even if submission.csv was written before the crash. Always trim or try/except around risky cells.

Read the full file on GitHub · 207 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. 11d ago First seen · 207 lines · 145 tokens per session scan A 70adf037c517

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kaggle-competition-type-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository topprismdata/cultivating-ml-agent (5 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 2,418 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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