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
- dbt Mesh: Work with multi-project setups, cross-project refs, model governance (contracts, versions, access)
- 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)
| Skill | Description |
|---|
using-dbt-for-analytics-engineering | Build and modify dbt models, debug errors, explore data sources, write tests |
adding-dbt-unit-test | Add unit tests for dbt models, practice test-driven development |
building-dbt-semantic-layer | Create semantic models, metrics, and dimensions with MetricFlow |
answering-natural-language-questions-with-dbt | Answer business questions by querying the semantic layer |
working-with-dbt-mesh | Implement dbt Mesh governance (contracts, access, groups, versions) and cross-project collaboration |
troubleshooting-dbt-job-errors | Diagnose and resolve dbt platform job failures |
configuring-dbt-mcp-server | Set up the dbt MCP server for Claude, Cursor, or VS Code |
fetching-dbt-docs | Look up dbt documentation efficiently |
running-dbt-commands | Run dbt CLI commands with correct flags, selectors, and parameter formats |
dbt-migration (one-off use)
These skills are typically used once during a migration project rather than in every agent session.
| Skill | Description |
|---|
migrating-dbt-core-to-fusion | Migrate dbt projects from dbt Core to the Fusion engine |
migrating-dbt-project-across-platforms | Migrate dbt projects across data platforms |
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