lakefs-and-data-versioning

lakefs-and-data-versioning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (1,072 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to versioning datasets with lakeFS or similar systems, using branches and saved data states. It covers isolated changes, validation, promotion between environments, and rollback.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for schema changes, backfills, experiments, pipeline changes, environment promotion, rollback, and reproducible dataset snapshots.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of changing shared lakehouse data directly. Teams can test, compare, publish, or undo data changes in a controlled way.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for schema changes, backfills, experiments, pipeline changes, environment promotion, rollback, and reproducible dataset snapshots.

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npx agentmods add skills/vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills/lakefs-and-data-versioning
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,072 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00044 $0.01072
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00536
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00107

Measured 7d ago against content hash 75e0b3192518, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lakefs-and-data-versioning 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 7d 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/lakefs-and-data-versioning/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

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lakeFS And Data Versioning

Overview

Use this skill when datasets need branch-like safety and controlled promotion. It helps agents treat data versioning as an operational control for risky changes, validation before publish, environment isolation, and safe rollback for lakehouse operations.

When to Use

  • validating data changes in isolation before merging to the main branch
  • branching lake data for experiments, migrations, or schema changes
  • promoting data states between environments (dev → staging → production)
  • implementing safe rollback for risky pipeline changes
  • running A/B comparisons between data versions
  • creating reproducible dataset snapshots for compliance or debugging

Do not use this when the data platform has no concept of object-level versioning or when changes are small enough that point-in-time snapshots (Iceberg, Delta) provide sufficient safety.

Workflow

  1. Define the versioning goal and branch lifecycle. Include:

    • what operation needs safety? (schema migration, backfill, new pipeline, experiment)
    • what is the branch lifecycle? (short-lived feature branch vs long-lived environment branch)
    • who can create, merge, and delete branches?
    • what is the promotion path from branch to main?
    • how long do branches live before cleanup?
  2. Design the branch strategy for your use case.

    • feature branches: isolate a single pipeline change, validate, then merge
    • environment branches: map to dev/staging/prod with controlled promotion
    • experiment branches: run alternative logic and compare outputs before committing
    • avoid long-lived branches that drift from main — define merge frequency
    • document naming conventions: feature/, experiment/, migration/
  3. Attach validation and quality gates to branch operations.

    • run data quality checks on the branch before merge is allowed
    • compare branch output against main for reconciliation (row counts, aggregates, samples)
    • use pre-merge hooks to enforce contract compliance
    • produce evidence of validation as a merge prerequisite
    • block merges that fail quality gates — no manual overrides without review

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 lines

Changes

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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. 7d ago First seen · 97 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 75e0b3192518

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lakefs-and-data-versioning is a skill published in the GitHub repository vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills (44 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,072 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 2026-09-03.

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