spark-optimization

spark-optimization is a skill for Claude Code from wshobson/agents. It costs 37 tokens per session (720 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to making Apache Spark jobs run more efficiently. Spark is a system for processing large datasets across multiple machines.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps tune partitions, caching, memory, shuffles, serialization, and data-skew handling in Spark jobs.
Why use it?
It helps reduce slowdowns caused by excessive data movement, uneven workloads, poor partitioning, and memory pressure.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the data-engineering plugin — 4 skills, 2 commands, 1 agent shipped together

About the project

Agentic Plugin Marketplace is a collection of reusable plugins, agents, skills, commands, and rules for coding-agent tools including Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, and GitHub Copilot. It is for developers assembling agentic workflows across multiple harnesses from shared Markdown sources, and the catalogue entries are examples or subsets of those workflow components.

wshobson/agents · 39,449 stars · on GitHub · sethhobson.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wshobson/agents/spark-optimization
Any agent
npx skills add wshobson/agents --skill spark-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wshobson/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install data-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 2 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 720 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00037 $0.00720
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00360
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00072

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6af24df5e512, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spark-optimization 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 2d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/data-engineering/skills/spark-optimization/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apache Spark Optimization

Production patterns for optimizing Apache Spark jobs including partitioning strategies, memory management, shuffle optimization, and performance tuning.

When to Use This Skill

  • Optimizing slow Spark jobs
  • Tuning memory and executor configuration
  • Implementing efficient partitioning strategies
  • Debugging Spark performance issues
  • Scaling Spark pipelines for large datasets
  • Reducing shuffle and data skew

Core Concepts

1. Spark Execution Model

Driver Program
    ↓
Job (triggered by action)
    ↓
Stages (separated by shuffles)
    ↓
Tasks (one per partition)

2. Key Performance Factors

Factor Impact Solution
Shuffle Network I/O, disk I/O Minimize wide transformations
Data Skew Uneven task duration Salting, broadcast joins
Serialization CPU overhead Use Kryo, columnar formats
Memory GC pressure, spills Tune executor memory
Partitions Parallelism Right-size partitions

Quick Start

from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
from pyspark.sql import functions as F

# Create optimized Spark session
spark = (SparkSession.builder
    .appName("OptimizedJob")
    .config("spark.sql.adaptive.enabled", "true")
    .config("spark.sql.adaptive.coalescePartitions.enabled", "true")
    .config("spark.sql.adaptive.skewJoin.enabled", "true")
    .config("spark.serializer", "org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializer")
    .config("spark.sql.shuffle.partitions", "200")
    .getOrCreate())

# Read with optimized settings
df = (spark.read
    .format("parquet")
    .option("mergeSchema", "false")
    .load("s3://bucket/data/"))

# Efficient transformations
result = (df
    .filter(F.col("date") >= "2024-01-01")
    .select("id", "amount", "category")
    .groupBy("category")
    .agg(F.sum("amount").alias("total")))

result.write.mode("overwrite").parquet("s3://bucket/output/")

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 96 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 6af24df5e512

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spark-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository wshobson/agents (39,449 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 720 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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