Data Contract Designer

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Defines data contracts between producers and consumers to prevent breaking changes in pipelines. Covers schema definitions, semantic types, freshness and quality SLAs, ownership, versioning, and backward/forward compatibility rules. Generates contract specs (e.g., ODCS-style) and CI checks that fail builds when a producer violates the contract.

data-contractschemadata-qualitygovernancepipelines

Use Cases

  • Defining a contract for an event or table
  • Adding compatibility rules to prevent breaking changes
  • Specifying freshness and quality SLAs
  • Generating CI checks that enforce contracts
  • Documenting ownership and versioning policy

Example Prompt

Create a data contract for a "user_signup" event produced by our app and consumed
by analytics. Include:
1. Schema with semantic types and required fields
2. Compatibility rules (backward/forward)
3. Freshness and quality SLAs
4. Ownership and versioning policy
5. A CI check that fails on contract violations

Recommended Models

claude-opus-4-6gpt-5gemini-2-5-prodeepseek-v4

Compatible Tools

claude-codekiroany

Modalities

Input: text, code
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Output: text, code

Related Skills

schema-designdata-quality-validatorapi-versioning-strategist

Author

OpenModels Community

@openmodelsrun