Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills --skill using-dbt-stategit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills/using-dbt-state)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills/using-dbt-state"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills/using-dbt-state/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills/using-dbt-state"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills/using-dbt-state.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00101 | $0.02770 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00051 | $0.01385 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00020 | $0.00554 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00277 |
Grade A, and why
using-dbt-state scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Using dbt State
dbt State is a server-backed reuse mechanism. It should not be conflated with dbt's state:modified selector or --state deferral.
Before building each selected node, dbt asks the dbt State server whether the object can be skipped (reuse from the target schema), cloned (reuse from another schema), or must be built. It is the successor to State-Aware Orchestration, but works in dbt Core, in development, and in CI — not just Fusion in production.
dbt State is a paid product, but it does not require a dbt platform (fka dbt Cloud) subscription.
Common Misconceptions
| Misconception | Reality |
|---|---|
"dbt State is just state:modified / --state" |
No. state:modified hashes file contents against a manifest you manage (and must keep fresh — e.g. via dbt parse or similar) and rebuilds state:modified+ (all descendants). dbt State manages state automatically on a server and does not require maintaining a fresh comparison manifest — it parses SQL into a syntax tree and compares semantic hashes, considers upstream data freshness, and rebuilds a descendant only if it actually depends on the change (not the whole + subtree). |
| "It's Fusion-only / production-only" | Works in dbt Core, the dbt platform, and Fusion, across dev, CI, and production, with any orchestrator. |
| "dbt Core users can't use it" | They can. dbt Core 1.7–1.11 require pip install dbt-state. It's baked into dbt Core 1.12 / v2.0 and Fusion. |
| "It's free / it's local" | It calls the dbt State server and requires authentication via a dbt platform account or a standalone dbt State account (app.state.dbt.com). Reuse is metered in DATTs — daily active target tables (see Billing below). |
| "It sends my data to dbt Labs" | It sends last-modified timestamps and SQL text. The SQL is hashed then discarded — dbt Labs cannot read query contents after hashing, and can never access raw data. |
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 10d ago First seen · 119 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 5fea67a5be77
using-dbt-state is a skill published in the GitHub repository dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills (708 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 2,770 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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