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5 registry resources · 3 skills, 2 projects · roadmap: Reliability, Agentic Data Engineering, Data Processing, Data Quality
What this topic covers
DE//AGENT currently lists 5 resources under Python: 3 skills, 2 projects. Everything below is derived from the live registry — counts, capabilities, verification state and security posture come from the curated records, never from marketing copy.
What you can learn here
Documented learning objectives across these resources:
- Read a tool schema and predict its side effects — via MCP Tool Contract Auditor
- Classify tools by blast radius — via MCP Tool Contract Auditor
- Write a least-privilege MCP configuration — via MCP Tool Contract Auditor
- Express a quality contract as executable checks — via Pipeline → DQ → quarantine → publish
- Design a quarantine table with a reason — via Pipeline → DQ → quarantine → publish
- Alert on the quarantine rate, not just on failure — via Pipeline → DQ → quarantine → publish
- Test a transform without a Spark cluster — via Pipeline Test Author
- Assert invariants instead of golden files — via Pipeline Test Author
7 more objectives live on the individual resource pages.
Where this fits in the learning roadmap
These resources map to stages: Reliability (2), Agentic Data Engineering (1), Data Processing (1), Data Quality (1). Follow the four-phase roadmap to place this topic inside a progression instead of learning it in isolation.
Compare the registry's options
Every entry, its shape and its trust state — sorted by the registry's composite score. This table is the honest version of a marketing comparison: no sponsored placements, no unverifiable claims.
| Resource | Type | Difficulty | Verification | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCP Tool Contract Auditor | Skill | advanced | community flags | 40.5 |
| Pipeline → DQ → quarantine → publish | Project | intermediate | community flags | 38.65 |
| Pipeline Test Author | Skill | intermediate | community flags | 38 |
| PII Classifier | Skill | intermediate | community flags | 34.4 |
| API → S3 → Spark → Parquet | Project | intermediate | community flags | 32.15 |
How scores are computed: source quality score.
Where to start
Highest composite score first:
- MCP Tool Contract Auditor score 40.5 — advanced
- Pipeline → DQ → quarantine → publish score 38.65 — intermediate
- Pipeline Test Author score 38 — intermediate
Scores rank provenance, completeness and trust — read how verification works before adopting anything.
Good fits
Reach for these with production experience: MCP Tool Contract Auditor.
Cautions and limitations
Security-flagged entries: MCP Tool Contract Auditor (1 flag), Pipeline → DQ → quarantine → publish (2 flags), Pipeline Test Author (2 flags), PII Classifier (3 flags), API → S3 → Spark → Parquet (5 flags). Flags mean the record declares capabilities like credential use or write access — read the security posture on each page before connecting.
Production use cases
- MCP Tool Contract Auditor — Inspects an MCP server's tool list and schemas, flags tools that can write, delete, spend money or exfiltrate data, and produces a least-privilege connection recommendation. details
- Pipeline → DQ → quarantine → publish — Put a contract in front of a table: validate each batch, publish the clean rows, quarantine the rest with reasons, and alert on the quarantine rate. details
- Pipeline Test Author — Builds a local DuckDB/pyarrow harness with tiny fixtures so pipeline logic is testable in CI without a cluster, and asserts on invariants, not snapshots. details
- PII Classifier — Scans column names and sample values for PII categories, then proposes classification tags and a masking/pseudonymisation policy. details
Install and inspect
Real install commands from the registry — read the source before running any of them:
npx de-agent-platform add mcp-tool-contract-auditorMCP Tool Contract Auditor — review first
npx de-agent-platform add pipeline-test-authorPipeline Test Author — review first
npx de-agent-platform add pii-classifierPII Classifier — review first
Further study
Official source: Python (license: PSF-2.0) — start there for the canonical documentation, then come back for the vetted registry entries.
Adjacent topics: Apache Parquet (3 shared), DuckDB (2 shared), Apache Spark (2 shared), security (2 shared).
Study path: the roadmap places this topic in a progression · the scoring model explains the numbers · the trust rule catalog shows every security check these entries passed through.
Full resource list
| Resource | Type | Score |
|---|---|---|
| MCP Tool Contract Auditor | Skill | 40.5 |
| Pipeline → DQ → quarantine → publish | Project | 38.65 |
| Pipeline Test Author | Skill | 38 |
| PII Classifier | Skill | 34.4 |
| API → S3 → Spark → Parquet | Project | 32.15 |