Kafka Shadowtraffic

lensesio/kafka-shadowtraffic

Generate a ShadowTraffic configuration to populate a Kafka topic with realistic synthetic data. Discovers the target topic, its key and value schemas, and the correct serializers from the live cluster via any attached Kafka MCP server, then writes a ready-to-run `shadowtraffic-config.json` and Docker command. Use when the user says "populate my Kafka topic with test data", "set up ShadowTraffic for topic X", "generate synthetic events into my topic", "I need fake data flowing into Kafka", "seed my topic with data", or "mock data for my Kafka topic". Do NOT use for creating topics, reviewing schemas, or building Kafka consumers.

9k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/lensesio/agentic-engineering-for-apache-kafka --skill kafka-shadowtraffic

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take lensesio/kafka-shadowtraffic from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.

Install what it needs

The instructions reference docker. Without those the skill loads but fails at the first command.