$npx -y skills add vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills --skill feature-store-and-ml-data-pipelinesGuides agents through machine-learning data pipelines and feature serving workflows. Use when designing feature generation, offline and online consistency, training-serving parity, point-in-time correctness, or ML-oriented data product contracts.
| 1 | # Feature Store And ML Data Pipelines |
| 2 | |
| 3 | ## Overview |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Use this skill when the platform must support model training and inference safely. It helps agents design feature generation, point-in-time correctness, serving parity, and operational contracts for ML-focused data products. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | ## When to Use |
| 8 | |
| 9 | - building training datasets |
| 10 | - designing feature stores or reusable features |
| 11 | - supporting online and offline feature access |
| 12 | - preventing leakage and training-serving mismatch |
| 13 | - publishing model-ready data products |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Do not treat feature pipelines as ordinary marts with different names. ML pipelines have different correctness risks. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | ## Workflow |
| 18 | |
| 19 | 1. Define the feature contract. |
| 20 | Include: |
| 21 | - entity key |
| 22 | - feature meaning |
| 23 | - update cadence |
| 24 | - online or offline use |
| 25 | - freshness expectation |
| 26 | |
| 27 | 2. Protect point-in-time correctness. |
| 28 | Training data must only include information available at prediction time. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | 3. Align offline and online logic. |
| 31 | Reuse definitions and validation wherever possible to prevent training-serving drift. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | 4. Define feature lifecycle and ownership. |
| 34 | Clarify: |
| 35 | - producer |
| 36 | - consumers |
| 37 | - deprecation path |
| 38 | - quality monitoring |
| 39 | |
| 40 | 5. Validate operational behavior. |
| 41 | Models break when stale or missing features silently propagate. |
| 42 | |
| 43 | ## Common Rationalizations |
| 44 | |
| 45 | | Rationalization | Reality | |
| 46 | | --- | --- | |
| 47 | | "We can use the latest value for training." | That often introduces leakage and overstates model performance. | |
| 48 | | "Online parity is a model-team problem." | Feature consistency is a data pipeline responsibility too. | |
| 49 | | "Features are internal, so contracts are unnecessary." | Unclear feature meaning leads to misuse and drift. | |
| 50 | |
| 51 | ## Red Flags |
| 52 | |
| 53 | - no point-in-time logic is defined |
| 54 | - offline and online definitions diverge |
| 55 | - stale features are not monitored |
| 56 | - feature ownership is unclear |
| 57 | |
| 58 | ## Verification |
| 59 | |
| 60 | - [ ] Feature meaning, keys, and freshness are documented |
| 61 | - [ ] Point-in-time correctness is protected |
| 62 | - [ ] Offline and online parity expectations are explicit |
| 63 | - [ ] Monitoring exists for stale, missing, or drifting features |