dbt Agent Skills

A curated collection of Agent Skills for working with dbt. These skills help AI agents understand and execute dbt workflows more effectively.

What are Agent Skills?

Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that agents can discover and use to do things more accurately and efficiently.

How They Work

These skills are not slash commands or user-invoked actions. Once installed, the agent automatically loads the relevant skill when your prompt matches its use case. Just describe what you need in natural language and the agent handles the rest. See skill invocation control for more details.

What's Included

• Analytics engineering: Build and modify dbt models, write tests, explore data sources
• Semantic layer: Create metrics, dimensions, and semantic models with MetricFlow
• Platform operations: Troubleshoot job failures, configure the dbt MCP server
• Migration: Move projects from dbt Core to the Fusion engine

Installation

Claude Code

Add the dbt skills marketplace and install the plugins:

# Add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills

# Install the dbt skills (analytics engineering, semantic layer, testing, etc.)
/plugin install dbt@dbt-agent-marketplace

# Install the migration skills (typically a one-off — not needed for every session)
/plugin install dbt-migration@dbt-agent-marketplace

Other AI Clients

Vercel Skills CLI

Use the Vercel Skills CLI to install skills from this repository. Supports 30+ AI agents including Cursor, Cline, GitHub Copilot, and others.

# Preview available skills
npx skills add dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills --list

# Install all skills
npx skills add dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills

# Install only the dbt skills (analytics engineering, semantic layer, etc.)
npx skills add dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills/skills/dbt

# Install only the migration skills
npx skills add dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills/skills/dbt-migration

# Install a specific skill
npx skills add dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills --skill using-dbt-for-analytics-engineering

# Install globally (available in all projects, stored in ~/.<agent>/skills/)
npx skills add dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills --global

# Check for updates
npx skills check

# Update installed skills
npx skills update

Tessl

Install skills using Tessl, a package manager for agent skills:

# Install all skills
tessl install dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills

# Install a specific skill
tessl install dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills --skill using-dbt-for-analytics-engineering

# Install from GitHub directly
tessl install github:dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills

Browse the tile on the Tessl registry.

Compatible Agents

These skills work with AI agents that support the Agent Skills format.

Available Skills

dbt (analytics engineering)

dbt-migration (one-off use)

These skills are typically used once during a migration project rather than in every agent session.

Prerequisites

Most skills assume:

• dbt is installed and configured
• A dbt project with dbt_project.yml exists
• Basic familiarity with dbt concepts (models, tests, sources)

Some skills like fetching-dbt-docs and configuring-dbt-mcp-server can be used without an existing project.

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Whether you want to add a new dbt skill, improve existing ones, or fix issues, please see our Contributing Guide.

Format Specification

All skills in this repository follow the Agent Skills specification to ensure compatibility across different agent products.

Resources

• dbt Documentation
• dbt CLI Reference
• Agent Skills Documentation
• Agent Skills Specification

Community

• Issues: Report problems or suggest new skills
• Discussions: Share use cases and patterns
• Pull Requests: Contribute new skills or improvements
• Star this repository if you find it useful!

License

See LICENSE for details.

Skill Evaluation

See evals/README.md for the A/B testing tool to compare skill variations.