Agent skill

Beam Concepts

by Kilo-Org in Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace

Explains core Apache Beam programming model concepts including PCollections, PTransforms, Pipelines, and Runners.

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Install Beam Concepts

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace --skill beam-concepts -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace beam-concepts --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/beam-concepts .claude/skills/beam-concepts && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
beam-concepts
GitHub stars
190
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
220 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
85
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Explains core Apache Beam programming model concepts including PCollections, PTransforms, Pipelines, and Runners.

  • Works in 6 steps: Prefer built-in transforms over custom… → Use schemas for type-safe operations → Minimize side inputs for performance → …
  • Learning Beam fundamentals
  • SKILL.md covers The Beam Model, Key Abstractions, Core Transforms and Windowing, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Beam Concepts is an agent skill from Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace. Explains core Apache Beam programming model concepts including PCollections, PTransforms, Pipelines, and Runners. Use when learning Beam fundamentals or explaining pipeline concepts.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file.

The repository describes itself as: Kilo Marketplace - A curated collection of Skills, MCP Servers, and Modes for enhancing AI agent capabilities across the Kilo ecosystem—including Kilo Code (VS Code extension)… The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Learning Beam fundamentals
  • Explaining pipeline concepts

Example prompts

  • “Use the beam-concepts skill to explain core Apache Beam programming model concepts including PCollections, PTransforms, Pipelines, and Runners”
  • “/beam-concepts”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Prefer built-in transforms over custom DoFns
  2. Use schemas for type-safe operations
  3. Minimize side inputs for performance
  4. Handle late data explicitly
  5. Test with DirectRunner before deploying
  6. Use TestPipeline for unit tests

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ff51758. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are java and python).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Beam Concepts loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 49 tokens; SKILL.md has 220 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~49
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace at commit ff51758, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© Kilo-Org). 220 words, ~1,456 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/beam-concepts/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
beam-concepts
description
Explains core Apache Beam programming model concepts including PCollections, PTransforms, Pipelines, and Runners. Use when learning Beam fundamentals or explaining pipeline concepts.
metadata.category
data

Apache Beam Core Concepts

The Beam Model

Evolved from Google's MapReduce, FlumeJava, and Millwheel projects. Originally called the "Dataflow Model."

Key Abstractions

Pipeline

A Pipeline encapsulates the entire data processing task, including reading, transforming, and writing data.

java
// Java
Pipeline p = Pipeline.create(options);
p.apply(...)
 .apply(...)
 .apply(...);
p.run().waitUntilFinish();
python
# Python
with beam.Pipeline(options=options) as p:
    (p | 'Read' >> beam.io.ReadFromText('input.txt')
       | 'Transform' >> beam.Map(process)
       | 'Write' >> beam.io.WriteToText('output'))
PCollection

A distributed dataset that can be bounded (batch) or unbounded (streaming).

Properties
  • Immutable - Once created, cannot be modified
  • Distributed - Elements processed in parallel
  • May be bounded or unbounded
  • Timestamped - Each element has an event timestamp
  • Windowed - Elements assigned to windows
PTransform

A data processing operation that transforms PCollections.

java
// Java
PCollection<String> output = input.apply(MyTransform.create());
python
# Python
output = input | 'Name' >> beam.ParDo(MyDoFn())

Core Transforms

ParDo

General-purpose parallel processing.

java
// Java
input.apply(ParDo.of(new DoFn<String, Integer>() {
    @ProcessElement
    public void processElement(@Element String element, OutputReceiver<Integer> out) {
        out.output(element.length());
    }
}));
python
# Python
class LengthFn(beam.DoFn):
    def process(self, element):
        yield len(element)

input | beam.ParDo(LengthFn())
# Or simpler:
input | beam.Map(len)
GroupByKey

Groups elements by key.

java
PCollection<KV<String, Integer>> input = ...;
PCollection<KV<String, Iterable<Integer>>> grouped = input.apply(GroupByKey.create());
CoGroupByKey

Joins multiple PCollections by key.

Combine

Combines elements (sum, mean, etc.).

java
// Global combine
input.apply(Combine.globally(Sum.ofIntegers()));

// Per-key combine
input.apply(Combine.perKey(Sum.ofIntegers()));
Flatten

Merges multiple PCollections.

java
PCollectionList<String> collections = PCollectionList.of(pc1).and(pc2).and(pc3);
PCollection<String> merged = collections.apply(Flatten.pCollections());
Partition

Splits a PCollection into multiple PCollections.

Windowing

Types
  • Fixed Windows - Regular, non-overlapping intervals
  • Sliding Windows - Overlapping intervals
  • Session Windows - Gaps of inactivity define boundaries
  • Global Window - All elements in one window (default)
java
input.apply(Window.into(FixedWindows.of(Duration.standardMinutes(5))));
python
input | beam.WindowInto(beam.window.FixedWindows(300))

Triggers

Control when results are emitted.

java
input.apply(Window.<T>into(FixedWindows.of(Duration.standardMinutes(5)))
    .triggering(AfterWatermark.pastEndOfWindow()
        .withEarlyFirings(AfterProcessingTime.pastFirstElementInPane()
            .plusDelayOf(Duration.standardMinutes(1))))
    .withAllowedLateness(Duration.standardHours(1))
    .accumulatingFiredPanes());

Side Inputs

Additional inputs to ParDo.

java
PCollectionView<Map<String, String>> sideInput =
    lookupTable.apply(View.asMap());

mainInput.apply(ParDo.of(new DoFn<String, String>() {
    @ProcessElement
    public void processElement(ProcessContext c) {
        Map<String, String> lookup = c.sideInput(sideInput);
        // Use lookup...
    }
}).withSideInputs(sideInput));

Pipeline Options

Configure pipeline execution.

java
public interface MyOptions extends PipelineOptions {
    @Description("Input file")
    @Required
    String getInput();
    void setInput(String value);
}

MyOptions options = PipelineOptionsFactory.fromArgs(args).as(MyOptions.class);

Schema

Strongly-typed access to structured data.

java
@DefaultSchema(AutoValueSchema.class)
@AutoValue
public abstract class User {
    public abstract String getName();
    public abstract int getAge();
}

PCollection<User> users = ...;
PCollection<Row> rows = users.apply(Convert.toRows());

Error Handling

Dead Letter Queue Pattern
java
TupleTag<String> successTag = new TupleTag<>() {};
TupleTag<String> failureTag = new TupleTag<>() {};

PCollectionTuple results = input.apply(ParDo.of(new DoFn<String, String>() {
    @ProcessElement
    public void processElement(ProcessContext c) {
        try {
            c.output(process(c.element()));
        } catch (Exception e) {
            c.output(failureTag, c.element());
        }
    }
}).withOutputTags(successTag, TupleTagList.of(failureTag)));

results.get(successTag).apply(WriteToSuccess());
results.get(failureTag).apply(WriteToDeadLetter());

Cross-Language Pipelines

Use transforms from other SDKs.

python
# Use Java Kafka connector from Python
from apache_beam.io.kafka import ReadFromKafka

result = pipeline | ReadFromKafka(
    consumer_config={'bootstrap.servers': 'localhost:9092'},
    topics=['my-topic']
)

Best Practices

  1. Prefer built-in transforms over custom DoFns
  2. Use schemas for type-safe operations
  3. Minimize side inputs for performance
  4. Handle late data explicitly
  5. Test with DirectRunner before deploying
  6. Use TestPipeline for unit tests

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/beam-concepts of Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace.

  • SKILL.md
  • LICENSE

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ff51758

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Questions about Beam Concepts

What does Beam Concepts do?

Explains core Apache Beam programming model concepts including PCollections, PTransforms, Pipelines, and Runners. Beam Concepts is an agent skill from Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace. Explains core Apache Beam programming model concepts including PCollections, PTransforms, Pipelines, and Runners.

When should I use Beam Concepts?

Beam Concepts fits situations like: learning Beam fundamentals; explaining pipeline concepts.

How do I install Beam Concepts in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace --skill beam-concepts -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/beam-concepts in Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace) into .claude/skills/beam-concepts in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Beam Concepts in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace --skill beam-concepts -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/beam-concepts in Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace) into .agents/skills/beam-concepts in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Beam Concepts in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace --skill beam-concepts -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/beam-concepts, .gemini/skills/beam-concepts, .github/skills/beam-concepts and .opencode/skills/beam-concepts in your project.

What does Beam Concepts need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Beam Concepts is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Beam Concepts access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Beam Concepts safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Beam Concepts use?

Beam Concepts is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (from the LICENSE file in the skill folder). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Beam Concepts use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Beam Concepts?

Kilo-Org (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace, which has 190 GitHub stars. The repository holds 85 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 28, 2026.

Source: Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.