data-pipeline-architect

data-pipeline-architect is a skill for Claude Code from wyattowalsh/agents. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,842 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for batch and streaming data pipelines—systems that move and transform data either on a schedule or as events arrive. It covers data agreements, reliability, traceability, and cost controls.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or review ingestion and transformation pipelines, define checkpoints and recovery, handle late or invalid records, and trace data from its source to its output.
Why use it?
It helps prevent lost, invalid, late, or unexplained data as information moves between source systems and destinations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the agents plugin — 71 skills, 20 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to design or review ingestion and transformation pipelines, define checkpoints and recovery, handle late or invalid records, and trace data from its source to its output.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wyattowalsh/agents/data-pipeline-architect
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.

Any agent
npx skills add wyattowalsh/agents --skill data-pipeline-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wyattowalsh/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 71 skills, 20 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,842 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 $0.00043 $0.01842
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00921
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00368
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00184

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3c9c34ddb845, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

data-pipeline-architect 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 8 executable files (scripts/asset_toolkit/__init__.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/_shared.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/common.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/data-pipeline-architect/SKILL.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Data Pipeline Architect

Design resilient data movement and transformation systems for batch, streaming, and hybrid workloads.

Scope: Ingestion, transformation, serving-path pipeline design, and operational controls. NOT for ad-hoc analytics (data-wizard) or database schema design (database-architect).

Canonical Vocabulary

Term Definition
source Upstream system producing data
sink Destination system receiving data
batch window Time slice processed as a single scheduled unit
watermark Progress marker used to reason about event-time completeness
data contract Agreement on schema, semantics, freshness, and quality
checkpoint Persisted progress state used for restart and recovery
late data Records arriving after their expected processing window
quarantine Isolated holding area for invalid or suspicious records
lineage Trace from source records through transformations to outputs
replay Reprocessing data from a prior point in time

Dispatch

$ARGUMENTS Mode
design <pipeline> Design a new batch or streaming pipeline
review <pipeline or architecture> Audit an existing pipeline
operate <issue> Improve reliability, monitoring, and recovery
migrate <change> Plan a pipeline migration or re-platform
contract <dataset> Define a producer-consumer data contract
Natural language about ingestion, ETL, ELT, or streaming Auto-detect the closest mode
Empty Show the mode menu with examples

References

File Purpose
references/decision-matrix.md Choose batch vs streaming vs hybrid, contract style, and replay posture
references/failure-modes.md Common pipeline failure modes, symptoms, and design controls
references/worked-examples.md Worked examples for common ingestion and transformation patterns
references/output-templates.md Reusable output shapes for each public mode

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 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. 9d ago First seen · 171 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 3c9c34ddb845

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data-pipeline-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository wyattowalsh/agents (5 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,842 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 2026-08-31.

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