Data Contracts

When to Use

Load this skill when the user needs to:

Author or review a datacontract.yaml file following the datacontract.com specification
Run datacontract CLI commands (init, test, lint, diff, breaking, publish, export, catalog)
Embed SodaCL or custom SQL quality checks inside a contract
Detect breaking changes between contract versions in PRs
Set up GitHub Actions CI/CD to enforce contracts automatically
Define server blocks for Kafka topics, S3 buckets, or database tables
Follow the contract-driven development pattern (producer writes contract first)
Apply semver versioning and deprecation notices to contracts
Publish contracts to DataHub or OpenMetadata for catalog governance