ml4t-fetch-data skillA
ml4t-fetch-data is agent-read markdown (skill) from ml4t/skills: Reliable data acquisition with provider abstraction and schema validation. Use when ingesting market data from APIs, databases, or files..
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What the file says
# Fetch Data
Blindly loading data without validation produces silent schema drift, missing rows, and type errors that surface deep in modeling code.
## The Problem
Financial data providers change schemas, go offline, or return partial results without warning. Loading a CSV and trusting the columns exist, have the right types, and cover the expected date range is the single most common cause of broken pipelines. The failure mode is silent: your model trains on garbage and you only discover it when results make no sense.
## The Pattern
### WRONG
```python
import pandas as pd
# Blind load - no schema check, no gap detection, no type enforcement
df = pd.read_csv("etf_prices.csv")
returns = df["close"].pct_change() # Might be string column
```
### CORRECT
```python
import polars as pl
EXPECTED_SCHEMA = {
"timestamp": pl.Date,
"symbol": pl.Utf8,
"open": pl.Float64,
"high": pl.Float64,
"low": pl.Float64,
"close": pl.Float64,
"volume": pl.UInt64,
}
def load_and_validate(path: str) -> pl.DataFrame:
"""Load data with schema enforcement and basic integrity checks."""
df = pl.read_parquet(path)
# Schema check
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How to install
mdr add ml4t/skills/ml4t-fetch-data@git:20260901.c415df0mdr add ml4t/skills/ml4t-fetch-data@sha256:f38e76e2e900c231Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260901.c415df0 latest | 2026-09-01 | c415df0 | 4,091 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260528.303089e | 2026-05-28 | 303089e | 4,101 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
ml4t/skills · 19 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
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