Data Orchestration Skill for Claude

Expert guidance for orchestrating data pipelines. Dagster-first for greenfield projects, Airflow for brownfield. Covers scheduling, dependencies, monitoring, retries, alerting, and dbt/DLT integration.

When to Use This Skill

Activate when:

• Choosing between orchestration tools (Dagster vs Airflow vs Prefect vs embedded)
• Building Dagster assets, resources, sensors, schedules, or partitions
• Writing Airflow DAGs, operators, TaskFlow tasks, or connections
• Integrating orchestrators with dbt or DLT
• Implementing retry logic, alerting, failure handling, or partitioned backfills
• Deciding whether you need an orchestrator at all

Don't use for: dbt model writing (use dbt-skill), DLT source/destination config (use integration-patterns-skill), Kafka/Flink streaming (use streaming-data-skill), IaC provisioning, or CI/CD pipelines.

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