Databricks AI Runtime (air) CLI — the command-line tool for submitting and managing GPU training workloads on Databricks serverless compute. Use for: running air workloads, custom Docker image setup, environment configuration, and troubleshooting air jobs.
Build custom Python data sources for Apache Spark using the PySpark DataSource API — batch and streaming readers/writers for external systems. Use this skill whenever someone wants to connect Spark to an external system (database, API, message queue, custom protocol), build a Spark connector or plugin in Python…
Use Databricks built-in AI Functions (aiclassify, aiextract, aisummarize, aimask, aitranslate, aifixgrammar, aigen, aianalyzesentiment, aisimilarity, aiparsedocument, aiprepsearch, aiquery, aiforecast) to add AI capabilities directly to SQL and PySpark pipelines without managing model endpoints. Also covers document…
Create Databricks AI/BI dashboards. Must use when creating, updating, or deploying Lakeview dashboards as Databricks Dashboard have a unique json structure. CRITICAL: You MUST test ALL SQL queries via CLI BEFORE deploying. Follow guidelines strictly.
Design the UX of custom-code Databricks Apps (AppKit/React) data screens — KPI/overview pages, reports, charts, tables, and Genie/chat data assistants — mapped to concrete AppKit components. Use when BUILDING or reviewing the UI of an AppKit/React app that displays data or answers data questions: choosing genre…
Python backend for Databricks Apps — FastAPI (default), Flask, Dash, Streamlit, Gradio, Reflex. Default for a new Databricks App is databricks-apps (AppKit — Node/TypeScript/React) — reach for it first. Use this skill only when the user asks for a Python backend, extends an existing Python app, or the team is…
Build apps on Databricks Apps platform. Use when asked to create data apps, analytics tools, or custom interactive visualizations. A plain "create a dashboard" request means a managed AI/BI (Lakeview) dashboard → use databricks-aibi-dashboards, not this skill. Evaluates data access patterns (analytics vs Lakebase…
Databricks CLI operations and the parent/entry-point skill for Databricks CLI use: authentication, profile selection, and bundles. Load this first for CLI, auth, profile, and bundle tasks, then load the matching product skill. For finding or exploring data, answering questions about the data, or generating SQL, load…
Create, configure, validate, deploy, run, and manage Declarative Automation Bundles (DABs, formerly Databricks Asset Bundles). Use when working with Databricks resources via DABs including dashboards, jobs, pipelines, alerts, volumes, and apps.
Discover, explore, and query Databricks data via Genie — the CLI equivalent of the Genie One MCP. MUST be invoked whenever the user asks to find or locate data ('what tables are in X', 'where does X live', 'which catalog/schema has Y'), answer a natural-language question about the data, or write a SQL query.
Databricks SQL (DBSQL) advanced features and SQL warehouse capabilities. This skill MUST be invoked when the user mentions: "DBSQL", "Databricks SQL", "SQL warehouse", "SQL scripting", "stored procedure", "CALL procedure", "materialized view", "CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW", "pipe syntax", "|>", "geospatial", "H3", "ST"…
Databricks documentation reference via llms.txt index. Use when other skills do not cover a topic, looking up unfamiliar Databricks features, or needing authoritative docs on APIs, configurations, or platform capabilities.
Execute code and manage compute on Databricks: run Python/Scala/SQL/R via serverless, classic, or interactive clusters, and create/resize/delete clusters and SQL warehouses.
Create, manage, and query Databricks Genie Agents — curated, per-data natural-language agents (formerly Genie Spaces): build, export/import, migrate across workspaces, and ask questions of a specific Agent via the Conversation API. For general data questions or finding data across your workspace, use…
Develop and deploy Lakeflow Jobs on Databricks via DABs, Python SDK, or the CLI. Use when creating data engineering jobs with notebooks, Python wheels, SQL, dbt, or pipelines. Invoke BEFORE starting implementation.
Databricks Lakebase Postgres: projects, scaling, connectivity, Lakebase synced tables, and Data API. Use when asked about Lakebase databases, OLTP storage, or connecting apps to Postgres on Databricks.
Build managed ingestion pipelines into Databricks using Lakeflow Connect. Use when ingesting from SaaS apps (Salesforce, Workday Reports, ServiceNow, Google Analytics 4, HubSpot, Confluence) or databases (SQL Server cloud and on-prem; PostgreSQL/MySQL CDC in PuPr) into Unity Catalog with serverless pipelines.
Unity Catalog metric views: define, create, query, and manage governed business metrics in YAML. Use when building standardized KPIs, revenue metrics, order analytics, or any reusable business metrics that need consistent definitions across teams and tools.
MLflow 3 GenAI agent evaluation. Use when writing mlflow.genai.evaluate() code, creating @scorer functions, using built-in scorers (Guidelines, Correctness, Safety, RetrievalGroundedness), building eval datasets from traces, setting up trace ingestion and production monitoring, aligning judges with MemAlign from…
Databricks Model Serving endpoint lifecycle and ops. Use when asked to: CRUD serving endpoints (CLI or MLflow Deployments client); configure traffic routing for A/B / canary deploys and zero-downtime version swaps; retrieve OpenAPI schemas; inspect logs, metrics, or permissions; manage AI Gateway rate limits; discover…
Develop Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines (formerly Delta Live Tables) on Databricks. Use when building batch or streaming data pipelines with Python or SQL. Invoke BEFORE starting implementation.