source-reliability-and-extraction-resilience

source-reliability-and-extraction-resilience is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (438 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for collecting data safely when upstream systems are slow, unavailable, rate-limited, late, or inconsistent. It treats the source system’s failures as part of the ingestion design.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for resilient data extraction from unreliable APIs or systems, including outage handling, delayed snapshots, partial responses, and bounded catch-up work.
Why use it?
A pipeline can produce bad or incomplete results when it assumes its source is always available. This helps define retries, timeouts, quarantines, partial-data rules, monitoring, and recovery procedures.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for resilient data extraction from unreliable APIs or systems, including outage handling, delayed snapshots, partial responses, and bounded catch-up work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills/source-reliability-and-extraction-resilience
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills --skill source-reliability-and-extraction-resilience
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 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 438 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 $0.00048 $0.00438
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00219
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00044

Measured 9d ago against content hash d2e4639621d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

source-reliability-and-extraction-resilience 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/source-reliability-and-extraction-resilience/SKILL.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

Source Reliability And Extraction Resilience

Overview

Use this skill when the real risk is upstream instability rather than downstream modeling. It helps agents design safe ingestion behavior around outages, late data, flaky responses, inconsistent source states, and operational dependencies.

When to Use

  • unstable upstream systems
  • intermittent extraction failures
  • delayed source availability
  • rate-limited or timeout-prone sources
  • ingestion designs that must survive source incidents

Do not assume source availability is constant just because the contract exists.

Workflow

  1. Characterize the upstream failure modes. Include:

    • outages
    • late availability
    • inconsistent snapshots
    • timeout behavior
    • partial responses
  2. Define safe extraction behavior. Decide:

    • retry policy
    • timeout handling
    • quarantine behavior
    • when to fail closed versus publish partial data
  3. Add observability around the source, not only the pipeline.

  4. Bound replay and catchup behavior for upstream recovery scenarios.

  5. Document human-operable recovery steps.

Common Rationalizations

Rationalization Reality
"The source team says it is reliable." Reliability claims still need runtime evidence and safe fallback behavior.
"We can just retry more." More retries can worsen load, mask incidents, or still produce partial bad state.
"Partial data is better than stale data." That depends on the business contract and must be explicit.

Red Flags

  • no documented source failure modes
  • partial-source behavior is undefined
  • the pipeline can publish partial data without warning
  • source recovery depends on tribal knowledge

Verification

  • Upstream failure modes are characterized
  • Extraction and publish behavior under failure is explicit
  • Source health is observable separately from downstream success
  • Recovery and catchup rules are documented
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 · 66 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A d2e4639621d2

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source-reliability-and-extraction-resilience is a skill published in the GitHub repository vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills (45 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 438 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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