Agent skill

Importer Scaffolder

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

A skill your agent uses when asked to build an importer from a competitor's export, migrate users' data from another tool, map a CSV or JSON export onto my data model, or make switching to my…

MITAuto-check passedDatabases

Install Importer Scaffolder

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill importer-scaffolder -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills importer-scaffolder --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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/importer-scaffolder .claude/skills/importer-scaffolder && 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
importer-scaffolder
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
580 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when asked to build an importer from a competitor's export, migrate users' data from another tool, map a CSV or JSON export onto my data model, or make switching to my…

  • Works in 6 steps: Source profile → Field mapping table → The keep-everything rule → …
  • Asked to build an importer from a competitors export
  • SKILL.md covers Required Inputs, Output Structure, Quality Checks and Anti-Patterns, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Importer Scaffolder is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Use when asked to build an importer from a competitor's export, migrate users' data from another tool, map a CSV or JSON export onto my data model, or make switching to my project easy. Given a sample export (CSV or JSON), produces a field mapping table, an importer code skeleton, a rule that unmatched records are kept rather than dropped, and test fixtures including the awkward cases. For a database migration inside one system, use database-migration-plan.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Databases, covering Test data and fixtures, Database migrations and CSV and tabular files. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to build an importer from a competitors export
  • Migrate users data from another tool
  • JSON export onto my data model
  • Make switching to my project easy

Example prompts

  • “s export, migrate users”
  • “/importer-scaffolder”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Source profile
  2. Field mapping table
  3. The keep-everything rule
  4. Importer skeleton
  5. Test fixtures
  6. User-facing instructions

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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.

    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

Importer Scaffolder loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 120 tokens; SKILL.md has 580 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~120
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 580 words, ~1,089 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/importer-scaffolder/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
importer-scaffolder
description
Use when asked to build an importer from a competitor's export, migrate users' data from another tool, map a CSV or JSON export onto my data model, or make switching to my project easy. Given a sample export (CSV or JSON), produces a field mapping table, an importer code skeleton, a rule that unmatched records are kept rather than dropped, and test fixtures including the awkward cases. For a database migration inside one system, use database-migration-plan.
version
1.0.0

Importer Scaffolder

People switch tools when leaving costs them nothing, and an importer is how a small project removes that cost. Importers fail quietly: a column is renamed, a date is in another format, a record has no match, and data disappears without anyone noticing. This skill builds an importer from a real sample export, with a mapping that is explicit and a rule that nothing is silently dropped.

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • A sample export: a few rows of CSV or a JSON excerpt, with any personal data replaced
  • The source tool and how users produce the export
  • Your data model: the target fields, types and required fields
  • Your language and stack for the importer
  • Where unmatched data should go: a notes field, an extras column, or a separate file

Output Structure

1. Source profile

What the sample shows: format, encoding, delimiter, header names, date and number formats, nested fields, and anything ambiguous. List assumptions explicitly.

2. Field mapping table
Source fieldExample valueTarget fieldTransformRequired?If missing or invalid

Every source field appears in the table, mapped or not. Unmapped fields go to the extras destination named in the inputs.

3. The keep-everything rule

State it in the code and the docs: no source record is dropped. A record that fails validation is imported with what could be parsed, flagged, and listed in an import report; its raw source is preserved in the extras destination.

4. Importer skeleton

Code in the requested language with these parts, each a small function:

  • read(source): streams rows; detects encoding and delimiter; never loads a huge file whole
  • mapRow(row): applies the mapping table; returns { record, warnings, extras }
  • validate(record): required fields and types; returns problems without throwing
  • write(record): idempotent upsert keyed on a stable source ID, so re-running an import does not duplicate data
  • report(): counts of imported, imported with warnings, and per-warning examples

Include a dry-run mode that prints the report without writing.

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5. Test fixtures

Fixture files plus the expected result for each:

  • the happy path (three normal rows)
  • a renamed or reordered header
  • an empty required field
  • a malformed date and a number with a thousands separator
  • non-ASCII text (accents, Chinese characters, emoji)
  • a duplicate row (checks idempotency)
  • a row with extra unknown columns (checks they land in extras)
6. User-facing instructions

Five to eight steps telling users how to export from the source tool and import, including what the import report means.

Quality Checks

  • Every source field in the sample appears in the mapping table
  • The code imports invalid records with a flag instead of dropping them
  • Unmapped fields are preserved in the named extras destination
  • Re-running the import on the same file creates no duplicates
  • A dry-run mode exists and writes nothing
  • Fixtures cover non-ASCII text, a malformed date and a duplicate row
  • The sample data contains no real personal data

Anti-Patterns

  • Silent drops. A skipped row is lost data the user may never notice.
  • Mapping by column position. Exports reorder columns; map by header name.
  • Loading the whole file into memory. Real exports are bigger than samples.
  • Guessing ambiguous dates. If 03/04 could be either order, ask or detect from the whole file, and record the choice.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Build an importer for Trello JSON exports into my app."
  • "Here's a CSV export from Notion, map it onto my data model."
  • "Make it easy for users to switch from [competitor] to my project."
  • "Write a CSV importer that never drops rows."

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/importer-scaffolder of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Dummy Datasetkillvxk/pm-skills-zh167—~595Automated safety check: PassMIT
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Eng Schema Migrationcompozy/compozy2.8k—~763Automated safety check: PassMIT
Evolving The Data ModelTriliumNext/Trilium38k—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0

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Questions about Importer Scaffolder

What does Importer Scaffolder do?

A skill your agent uses when asked to build an importer from a competitor's export, migrate users' data from another tool, map a CSV or JSON export onto my data model, or make switching to my…. Importer Scaffolder is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Use when asked to build an importer from a competitor's export, migrate users' data from another tool, map a CSV or JSON export onto my data model, or make switching to my project easy.

When should I use Importer Scaffolder?

Importer Scaffolder fits situations like: asked to build an importer from a competitors export; migrate users data from another tool; JSON export onto my data model; make switching to my project easy.

How do I install Importer Scaffolder in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill importer-scaffolder -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/importer-scaffolder in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/importer-scaffolder in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Importer Scaffolder in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill importer-scaffolder -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/importer-scaffolder in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/importer-scaffolder in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Importer Scaffolder 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill importer-scaffolder -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/importer-scaffolder, .gemini/skills/importer-scaffolder, .github/skills/importer-scaffolder and .opencode/skills/importer-scaffolder in your project.

What does Importer Scaffolder need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Importer Scaffolder is instructions for the agent only.

Does Importer Scaffolder 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 Importer Scaffolder 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 Importer Scaffolder use?

Importer Scaffolder is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Importer Scaffolder use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Importer Scaffolder?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Importer Scaffolder: Replica Backend (Jakeschincariol/replica-skill, 1.4k stars), Dummy Dataset (killvxk/pm-skills-zh, 167 stars), Flyway Migrations (rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-skills, 301 stars) and Eng Schema Migration (compozy/compozy, 2.8k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Importer Scaffolder?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.