master-data-and-entity-resolution

master-data-and-entity-resolution is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills. It costs 41 tokens per session (443 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to identifying the same customer, product, or account across different systems and creating one trusted record for it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define matching rules, choose which source wins for each field, track uncertain matches, and publish shared master records.
Why use it?
It helps prevent duplicate or conflicting records when systems use different identifiers or disagree about details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to define matching rules, choose which source wins for each field, track uncertain matches, and publish shared master records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills/master-data-and-entity-resolution
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills --skill master-data-and-entity-resolution
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 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 443 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 $0.00041 $0.00443
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00221
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00044

Measured 8d ago against content hash ea0cc63439e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

master-data-and-entity-resolution 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 8d 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/master-data-and-entity-resolution/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Master Data And Entity Resolution

Overview

Use this skill when the data problem is "who or what is this really?" across multiple systems. It helps agents define canonical entities, matching logic, survivorship rules, and downstream-safe resolution behavior.

When to Use

  • building customer, product, or account golden records
  • resolving duplicate identities across systems
  • defining master data domains
  • publishing canonical reference datasets

Do not collapse entity resolution into ad hoc joins if the result becomes a shared dependency.

Workflow

  1. Define the entity contract. Include:

    • canonical entity type
    • contributing systems
    • primary identifiers
    • confidence or match logic
    • ownership
  2. Choose the matching strategy. Common strategies:

    • exact key match
    • deterministic rule-based match
    • probabilistic or scored match
  3. Define survivorship rules. Decide which system wins for each attribute and under what conditions.

  4. Track unresolved and ambiguous cases.

  5. Publish master data with clear confidence and lineage context.

Common Rationalizations

Rationalization Reality
"We can just use email as the unique customer key." Real systems often contain shared, missing, or changing identifiers.
"The golden record is obvious once matched." Attribute-level survivorship and conflict handling still need explicit rules.
"Ambiguous matches are edge cases." They become painful quickly when downstream systems treat them as truth.

Red Flags

  • no explicit canonical entity definition exists
  • survivorship logic is implicit in SQL ordering
  • unresolved cases are silently dropped or forced
  • downstream consumers are not told match confidence assumptions

Verification

  • Canonical entity and source systems are explicit
  • Match and survivorship rules are documented
  • Ambiguous cases have a defined handling path
  • Published master data includes lineage or confidence context where needed

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 8d ago First seen · 65 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A ea0cc63439e9

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master-data-and-entity-resolution is a skill published in the GitHub repository vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills (45 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 443 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.