# data-quality

Helps build data quality controls for financial pipelines, covering pricing validation, stale price detection, and lineage under BCBS 239.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 708 installs · ★ 218
- Author: JoelLewis
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/JoelLewis/finance_skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/data-integration/skills/data-quality/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-07-18
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/data-quality

## What it does

This skill equips coding agents with governance practices for financial data architectures. It establishes metrics across six domains, focusing heavily on pricing accuracy and client record consistency. Each area targets concrete thresholds. Pricing accuracy requires exceeding 99.5% against independent sources, while entity duplicate rates must remain below 0.1%.

Measuring accuracy requires a designated golden source; without an authoritative benchmark, verification rules fail before they begin. The skill defines data validation patterns and tracks lineage for BCBS 239 and MiFID II compliance. It also helps troubleshoot reconciliation breaks across trade feeds.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill data-quality -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/data-quality/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/data-quality/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill data-quality -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/data-quality/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill data-quality -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/data-quality/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install JoelLewis/finance_skills data-quality
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/data-quality/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill data-quality -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/JoelLewis/finance_skills --path plugins/data-integration/skills/data-quality
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/data-quality/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill data-quality -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/JoelLewis/finance_skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/data-integration/skills/data-quality/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build validation rules for market pricing and client feeds
- track data lineage for BCBS 239 and MiFID II regulatory reviews
- investigate reconciliation breaks and billing discrepancies caused by corrupt data
- define data stewardship roles and scorecards for internal monitoring

## Example prompts
- Draft pricing validation rules to catch stale bond quotes before the nightly batch runs.
- Design a data quality scorecard for client master records tracking completeness and uniqueness.
- Map data lineage for risk reporting to satisfy BCBS 239 audit guidelines.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: data-quality
description: "Design and operate data quality programs for financial data — validation rules, pricing validation, data lineage, exception management, profiling, and governance. Use when building validation rules for pricing or client data pipelines, detecting stale prices, designing a data quality monitoring framework, calibrating validation thresholds, implementing data lineage for BCBS 239 or MiFID II, investigating reconciliation breaks or billing errors traced to bad data, preparing for regulatory exams on data accuracy, building data quality scorecards, or defining data stewardship roles. Trigger on: data quality, pricing validation, stale prices, data lineage, data validation, data profiling, exception management, data governance, BCBS 239, data completeness, data accuracy, validation rules, data anomaly, data stewardship, data quality scorecard."
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# Data Quality

## Core Concepts

### 1. Data Quality Dimensions for Financial Data

Six dimensions define data quality. Each has domain-specific meaning in financial services.

**Accuracy** — Data values correctly represent the real-world entity or event they describe. A security price is accurate if it reflects the actual market closing price or evaluated value from the designated source. A client address is accurate if it matches the client's current legal address of record. Accuracy failures propagate: an inaccurate price produces inaccurate valuations, performance, billing, and regulatory reports. Accuracy is measured by comparing data against an independent authoritative source — cross-vendor price comparison, custodian-to-PMS reconciliation, client confirmation of personal data. In practice, accuracy is the hardest dimension to measure because it requires an independent reference point for comparison.

**Completeness** — All required data elements are present for every record. A security master record is incomplete if it lacks an ISIN, asset class classification, or pricing source designation. A client onboarding record is incomplete if beneficial ownership for entity accounts is missing. Completeness is measured as the percentage of records with all mandatory fields populated. Financial data completeness requirements are often regulatory: FinCEN requires complete beneficial ownership data, GIPS requires complete portfolio inclusion in composites, SEC Rule 17a-4 requires complete transaction records. Completeness must be defined per record type — a required field for an entity account (beneficial ownership) differs from a required field for an individual account (employment status).
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