schema-evolution-and-contract-migrations

schema-evolution-and-contract-migrations is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (461 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to changing the structure of data without unexpectedly breaking the systems that use it. A schema is the defined set of fields, types, keys, and rules that describe data.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for adding or changing columns, data types, null rules, keys, or downstream data contracts while checking affected producers and consumers.
Why use it?
Renaming, removing, or changing a field can break pipelines, dashboards, APIs, and outside users even when the database change looks small. This helps plan compatible migrations, consumer cutovers, and removal of old formats.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for adding or changing columns, data types, null rules, keys, or downstream data contracts while checking affected producers and consumers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills/schema-evolution-and-contract-migrations
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills --skill schema-evolution-and-contract-migrations
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 461 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 $0.00461
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00046

Measured 9d ago against content hash e969df538aa0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

schema-evolution-and-contract-migrations 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/schema-evolution-and-contract-migrations/SKILL.md · 71 lines

What it actually says

Schema Evolution And Contract Migrations

Overview

Use this skill when a schema change can ripple through pipelines, models, dashboards, or external consumers. It helps agents make schema evolution deliberate, compatible, and recoverable.

When to Use

  • changing input or output schemas
  • renaming or dropping columns
  • changing data types or nullability
  • adding keys or changing grain
  • migrating consumers from an old contract to a new one

Do not treat schema changes as isolated SQL edits. They are compatibility events.

Workflow

  1. Classify the change. Decide whether it is:

    • additive
    • backward compatible
    • breaking
    • temporary dual-schema support
  2. Map consumers and blast radius. Include:

    • upstream producers
    • downstream models
    • dashboards
    • APIs or extracts
    • external consumers
  3. Create the migration path. Options may include:

    • dual writes
    • compatibility views
    • phased deprecation
    • explicit consumer cutover windows
  4. Validate old and new contracts during the transition.

  5. Remove deprecated paths only after confirmation that consumers moved.

Common Rationalizations

Rationalization Reality
"It is just a column rename." Renames break dashboards, notebooks, and joins that depend on the old name.
"Consumers will update quickly." Some consumers are undocumented or owned by other teams.
"Additive changes are always safe." New columns can still change file contracts, schemas, and downstream assumptions.

Red Flags

  • no consumer inventory exists
  • breaking changes ship without transition support
  • type changes are made without data validation
  • deprecation timing is based on hope instead of confirmation

Verification

  • The change type and compatibility level are classified
  • Consumers and blast radius are identified
  • A migration and rollback path exists
  • Old and new contract behavior are validated during transition
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 · 71 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A e969df538aa0

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schema-evolution-and-contract-migrations 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 461 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.