warehouse-and-schema-design

warehouse-and-schema-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (507 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing warehouse tables and schemas for reliable analytics. It explains concepts such as fact tables, dimension tables, row meaning, and keys.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design marts, warehouse schemas, curated tables, keys, relationships, and normalized or denormalized data models.
Why use it?
It prevents confusing relationships, unclear table grain, and schemas that make downstream analysis slow or difficult.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to design marts, warehouse schemas, curated tables, keys, relationships, and normalized or denormalized data models.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills/warehouse-and-schema-design
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills --skill warehouse-and-schema-design
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 507 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.
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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 $0.00044 $0.00507
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00253
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00051

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0f23eea49c1a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

warehouse-and-schema-design 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.

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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/warehouse-and-schema-design/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Warehouse And Schema Design

Overview

Use this skill when the primary challenge is how data should be modeled for reliable analytics consumption. It helps agents choose good grain, keys, relationships, and serving patterns so downstream work stays understandable and performant.

When to Use

  • designing marts, warehouse schemas, or curated serving tables
  • choosing fact and dimension boundaries
  • deciding grain, surrogate keys, or relationship strategy
  • balancing normalization and denormalization
  • restructuring analytics-facing datasets for usability

Do not reduce schema design to column naming alone. Good schema design is about behavior, meaning, and query ergonomics.

Workflow

  1. Define the business grain first. Clarify:

    • what one row represents
    • what the primary analysis questions are
    • how time and change should be represented
  2. Choose the schema pattern intentionally. Common options:

    • dimensional modeling
    • data vault-oriented integration layers
    • normalized serving models for operational analytics
    • denormalized marts for common consumption patterns
  3. Define keys and relationships. Include:

    • business keys
    • surrogate keys where needed
    • slowly changing behavior
    • null and unknown-member handling
  4. Optimize for consumers, not just model purity. A perfect logical model that no analyst can use is not successful.

  5. Validate compatibility with performance, governance, and metric use.

Common Rationalizations

Rationalization Reality
"We can figure out grain later." Grain mistakes spread quickly through metrics and dashboards.
"A wide table is always easier for analysts." Very wide tables often hide conflicting grains and unclear semantics.
"Normalization is more correct, so we should always prefer it." Correctness and usability both matter; serving models need intentional trade-offs.

Red Flags

  • row grain is undocumented
  • fact tables mix incompatible event types
  • keys are inconsistent across domains
  • schema choices are driven only by current dashboard convenience

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 9d ago First seen · 70 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 0f23eea49c1a

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warehouse-and-schema-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills (45 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 507 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.