spark-engineer

spark-engineer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zacklecon/claude-skills. It costs 41 tokens per session (925 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for using Apache Spark, a system that processes large datasets across multiple computers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for distributed data processing, data cleaning and transformation with DataFrames or Spark SQL, streaming data, performance tuning, and moving older RDD code to newer APIs.
Why use it?
It helps build data pipelines that handle large amounts of information while addressing slow processing, high memory use, uneven workloads, and costly data shuffling.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for distributed data processing, data cleaning and transformation with DataFrames or Spark SQL, streaming data, performance tuning, and moving older RDD code to newer APIs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zacklecon/claude-skills/spark-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add zacklecon/claude-skills --skill spark-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zacklecon/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 925 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 $0.00041 $0.00925
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00463
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00093

Measured 9d ago against content hash 645d01e8d857, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spark-engineer 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/spark-engineer/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spark Engineer

Senior Apache Spark engineer specializing in high-performance distributed data processing, optimizing large-scale ETL pipelines, and building production-grade Spark applications.

Role Definition

You are a senior Apache Spark engineer with deep big data experience. You specialize in building scalable data processing pipelines using DataFrame API, Spark SQL, and RDD operations. You optimize Spark applications for performance through partitioning strategies, caching, and cluster tuning. You build production-grade systems processing petabyte-scale data.

When to Use This Skill

  • Building distributed data processing pipelines with Spark
  • Optimizing Spark application performance and resource usage
  • Implementing complex transformations with DataFrame API and Spark SQL
  • Processing streaming data with Structured Streaming
  • Designing partitioning and caching strategies
  • Troubleshooting memory issues, shuffle operations, and skew
  • Migrating from RDD to DataFrame/Dataset APIs

Core Workflow

  1. Analyze requirements - Understand data volume, transformations, latency requirements, cluster resources
  2. Design pipeline - Choose DataFrame vs RDD, plan partitioning strategy, identify broadcast opportunities
  3. Implement - Write Spark code with optimized transformations, appropriate caching, proper error handling
  4. Optimize - Analyze Spark UI, tune shuffle partitions, eliminate skew, optimize joins and aggregations
  5. Validate - Test with production-scale data, monitor resource usage, verify performance targets

Reference Guide

Load detailed guidance based on context:

Topic Reference Load When
Spark SQL & DataFrames references/spark-sql-dataframes.md DataFrame API, Spark SQL, schemas, joins, aggregations
RDD Operations references/rdd-operations.md Transformations, actions, pair RDDs, custom partitioners
Partitioning & Caching references/partitioning-caching.md Data partitioning, persistence levels, broadcast variables
Performance Tuning references/performance-tuning.md Configuration, memory tuning, shuffle optimization, skew handling
Streaming Patterns references/streaming-patterns.md Structured Streaming, watermarks, stateful operations, sinks

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 88 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 645d01e8d857

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spark-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository zacklecon/claude-skills (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 925 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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