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databricks-upgrade-migration

Upgrade Databricks runtime versions and migrate between features. Use when upgrading DBR versions, migrating to Unity Catalog, or updating deprecated APIs and features. Trigger with phrases like "databricks upgrade", "DBR upgrade", "databricks migration", "unity catalog migration", "hive to unity".

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

65%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The content is highly actionable with executable code across all four migration steps, but it is verbose for its token budget and underuses the provided reference file. Workflow clarity is decent yet lacks explicit feedback loops for the destructive batch operations involved.

Suggestions

Link references/migration-scripts.md from the body (e.g., a '## Migration Scripts' pointer) and move the overlapping bulk-migration, API-rename, and runbook material out of SKILL.md into that reference to reduce duplication.

Add an explicit validate→fix→retry loop for batch/destructive operations, e.g. when the bulk migration script reports MISMATCH, show the remediation and re-verification steps rather than only printing status.

Trim the Examples section and redundant inline scripts that re-cover Step 1–4 content, keeping SKILL.md as a lean overview that points to the reference for full implementations.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly actionable code rather than concept explanation, but it is long and overlaps materially with references/migration-scripts.md (migration functions, API renames, runbook), and the Examples section repeats patterns already covered in the steps, so it could be tightened by deferring to the reference.

2 / 3

Actionability

Provides fully executable Python (plan_cluster_upgrade), SQL (SYNC/CTAS/DEEP CLONE, GRANT, ALTER TABLE TBLPROPERTIES), and bash with concrete old-vs-new API configs and a copy-paste bulk migration script.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Four sequenced steps with a dry-run-first checkpoint and a row-count verification query are present, but for destructive/batch database operations there is no explicit validate→fix→retry feedback loop (the bulk script only prints MISMATCH without a remediation path), which caps this dimension at 2.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

A bundle file references/migration-scripts.md exists, but it is never linked or signaled from the body, and the migration scripts/runbook it contains overlap with inline body content that should have been deferred to it.

2 / 3

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Description

90%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A well-structured description that clearly states capability, provides explicit 'Use when' triggers, and lists natural trigger phrases with good coverage. The only weakness is the slightly vague 'migrate between features' phrasing, which keeps specificity from the top anchor.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the Databricks domain and several concrete actions ('Upgrade Databricks runtime versions', 'migrating to Unity Catalog', 'updating deprecated APIs'), but the phrase 'migrate between features' is vague and the actions stay at a relatively high level rather than enumerating granular operations.

2 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Upgrade Databricks runtime versions and migrate between features') and when ('Use when upgrading DBR versions, migrating to Unity Catalog, or updating deprecated APIs'), matching the explicit-trigger pattern.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Lists natural phrases a user would actually say — 'databricks upgrade', 'DBR upgrade', 'databricks migration', 'unity catalog migration', 'hive to unity' — with good coverage of common variations.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Occupies a clear Databricks-specific niche with distinct triggers ('DBR upgrade', 'unity catalog migration', 'hive to unity') that are unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.

3 / 3

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Validation

87%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Total

14

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16

Passed

Repository
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