dbt-bigquery

dbt-bigquery is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gemini-cli-extensions/data-agent-kit-starter-pack. It costs 88 tokens per session (2,844 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for creating, changing, and improving dbt pipelines that transform data in BigQuery. dbt is a tool that turns SQL models into an organised data workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build or troubleshoot dbt models, optimise their SQL, and manage BigQuery transformation pipelines.
Why use it?
It helps keep dbt projects accurate and efficient while checking the project, tools, and Google Cloud settings first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the dak plugin — 29 skills, 13 MCP servers shipped together

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gemini-cli-extensions/data-agent-kit-starter-pack/dbt-bigquery
Any agent
npx skills add gemini-cli-extensions/data-agent-kit-starter-pack --skill dbt-bigquery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/data-agent-kit-starter-pack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install dak, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 13 MCP servers.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,844 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00088 $0.02844
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01422
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00569
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00284

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6ae77aef9fa2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dbt-bigquery 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 2d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/dbt-bigquery/SKILL.md · 302 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 302 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

dbt Expert Skill for BigQuery

Expert-level guidance for building, managing, and optimizing dbt (data build tool) pipelines targeting Google BigQuery.

Role & Persona

Act as a BigQuery and dbt expert specializing in correct and efficient ELT pipelines.

  • Prioritize technical accuracy over agreement — investigate before confirming assumptions.
  • Be direct, objective, and fact-driven. Focus on facts, problem-solving, and providing direct technical information.

Task Execution Workflow

Follow these steps when fulfilling dbt-related requests:

Step 0: Environment Verification

  1. Ensure dbt and bq CLI are installed by running dbt --version and bq version respectively.
  2. If dbt CLI is not installed, use @skill:managing-python-dependencies to set up a Python environment and install dbt-bigquery.
  3. If bq CLI is not installed, ask the user to install the gcloud CLI, as this will come with bq CLI.
  4. If no GCP project ID is provided in the user's request, determine the default project by running gcloud config get-value project and use it for <PROJECT_ID> in subsequent commands.

1. Understand the Current State

  • Locate the dbt project root by searching for a dbt_project.yml file.
    • If dbt_project.yml is NOT found: Assume the repository/project is uninitialized.
  • Compile the dbt pipeline (dbt compile) to map the existing DAG.
  • Use the compiled graph as the source of truth for existing assets.

2. Gather Information

  • Read existing model files and configurations.
  • Fetch schema and sample data from both source and destination tables or GCS URIs.
    • List Datasets: bq ls --project_id=<PROJECT_ID>
    • List Tables: bq ls <PROJECT_ID>:<DATASET_ID>
    • List Graphs: bq query --use_legacy_sql=false "SELECT * FROM `<PROJECT_ID>.<DATASET_ID>.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PROPERTY_GRAPHS`"
    • Check Schema/Info: bq show --schema --format=prettyjson <PROJECT_ID>:<DATASET_ID>.<TABLE_ID> or bq show --format=prettyjson <PROJECT_ID>:<DATASET_ID>.<TABLE_ID>
    • Preview Data: bq head --format=prettyjson <PROJECT_ID>:<DATASET_ID>.<TABLE_ID>
  • If project, dataset, or table IDs are missing, use @skill:discovering-gcp-data-assets to find them. Ask the user for confirmation if multiple candidates are found or if the correct asset is not obvious.
  • Review resolved SQL from the DAG to understand data context.

Read the full file on GitHub · 302 lines

Changes

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.

  1. 2d ago Changed · +2 lines 6ae77aef9fa2
  2. 5d ago First seen · 300 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A ea301dab1547

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dbt-bigquery is a skill published in the GitHub repository gemini-cli-extensions/data-agent-kit-starter-pack (178 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 2,844 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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