debezium-and-kafka-connect-cdc

debezium-and-kafka-connect-cdc is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,050 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for capturing database changes with Debezium and Kafka Connect and sending them to Kafka, a system for moving event records between applications. CDC, or change data capture, records inserts, updates, and deletes as they happen.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stream changes from PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, SQL Server, or Oracle into processors, lakehouses, search indexes, or other Kafka consumers.
Why use it?
It helps avoid relying only on slow batch exports and makes snapshot handling, schema changes, recovery, and downstream data contracts explicit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to stream changes from PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, SQL Server, or Oracle into processors, lakehouses, search indexes, or other Kafka consumers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills/debezium-and-kafka-connect-cdc
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills --skill debezium-and-kafka-connect-cdc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,050 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 $0.00045 $0.01050
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00525
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00210
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00105

Measured 12d ago against content hash c2199ad8bcb8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debezium-and-kafka-connect-cdc 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (anti-patterns/no_dedup_consumer.py, anti-patterns/skewed_cdc_consumer.py, checks/duplicate_rate.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.

skills/debezium-and-kafka-connect-cdc/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debezium And Kafka Connect CDC

Overview

Use this skill when database changes must be captured and delivered through Debezium and Kafka Connect. It helps agents define connector safety, snapshot behavior, schema handling, and downstream CDC contracts.

When to Use

  • setting up Debezium connectors for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, SQL Server, or Oracle
  • designing Kafka-based CDC from transactional databases
  • handling initial snapshots, incremental streaming, and connector recovery
  • feeding downstream stream processors, lakehouse sinks, or search indexes
  • managing schema evolution when source tables change

Do not use this when changes can be captured through application-level events or batch extracts are sufficient for freshness requirements.

Workflow

  1. Define source tables, keys, and change event semantics. Include:

    • which tables to capture and which to exclude
    • primary key and unique key strategy for each table
    • expected change operations: inserts, updates, deletes, truncates
    • whether tombstone records are needed for compacted topics
    • expected change volume and peak throughput
  2. Plan snapshot behavior explicitly.

    • initial snapshot: full table scan on first connector start
    • define snapshot mode: initial, schema_only, never, or when_needed
    • understand lock behavior during snapshot (especially for PostgreSQL and MySQL)
    • plan for snapshot duration on large tables — can take hours
    • document what happens if a snapshot is interrupted
  3. Configure connector for operational resilience.

    • set appropriate max.batch.size and poll.interval.ms
    • configure heartbeat intervals to prevent WAL/binlog retention issues
    • define slot or binlog retention policies on the source database
    • plan for connector task failures and automatic restarts
    • monitor connector lag and offset position
  4. Define topic contracts and downstream expectations.

    • topic naming convention: {prefix}.{schema}.{table}
    • event envelope format: include before/after, operation type, source metadata
    • schema registry integration for event contracts
    • retention and compaction policy per topic
    • document which consumers depend on each topic

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 12d ago First seen · 94 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A c2199ad8bcb8

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debezium-and-kafka-connect-cdc is a skill published in the GitHub repository vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills (45 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,050 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.