dbt Agent Skills
dbt's official skills for analytics engineering, semantic layer and migration.
About
The official dbt Labs skill pack covering analytics engineering (build and modify models, write tests, explore sources), the MetricFlow semantic layer, dbt Mesh governance, job troubleshooting and the dbt MCP server, plus a one-off migration pack for moving dbt Core projects to v2. At 733 stars with 238 commits, evals and a changie changelog, it is the most maintained data skill pack in the catalog. Skills assume a working dbt project; most are useless without dbt installed and a configured dbt_project.yml.
What it can do
- dbt model building, testing and debugging
- MetricFlow semantic layer authoring
- dbt Mesh governance and cross-project refs
- Core-to-v2 and cross-platform migration playbooks
Setup
Run: npx skills add dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills
Or install one: npx skills add dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills --skill using-dbt-for-analytics-engineering
Claude Code alternative: /plugin marketplace add dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills then /plugin install dbt@dbt-agent-marketplace
Update later with: npx skills update
Prerequisites
dbt installed and configured; a dbt project with dbt_project.yml; basic dbt concepts.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 9/10
Scored 9/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Official dbt Labs repo: 733 stars, 238 commits, 63 forks, changie changelog and evals.; Full install matrix verified: Claude Code marketplace, Vercel skills CLI, Tessl.; Most skills are useless without a configured dbt project — honest scope, not a flaw.. License: Apache-2.0 verified via GitHub license field..
★ 733 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 9.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 10.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 9.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 9.0/10
- · Official dbt Labs repo: 733 stars, 238 commits, 63 forks, changie changelog and evals.
- · Full install matrix verified: Claude Code marketplace, Vercel skills CLI, Tessl.
- · Most skills are useless without a configured dbt project — honest scope, not a flaw.
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.