building-dbt-semantic-layer

building-dbt-semantic-layer is a skill for Claude Code from Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace. It costs 62 tokens per session (2,119 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of building-dbt-semantic-layer, Apache-2.0.

A guide to defining dbt’s Semantic Layer: a shared description of business data such as metrics, dimensions, entities, and time-based calculations. dbt is a tool for transforming warehouse data into reliable models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or update semantic models, metrics, dimensions, measures, entities, and time spines, then validate their YAML configuration.
Why use it?
It helps keep business calculations and relationships consistent instead of redefining them in separate reports or queries.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create or update semantic models, metrics, dimensions, measures, entities, and time spines, then validate their YAML configuration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kilo-org/kilo-marketplace/building-dbt-semantic-layer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace --skill building-dbt-semantic-layer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,119 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00062 $0.02119
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.01059
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00424
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00212

Measured 7d ago against content hash 85772b075714, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

building-dbt-semantic-layer 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 7d 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

This is a copy

97% identical to building-dbt-semantic-layer — 64 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/dbt/skills/building-dbt-semantic-layer/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

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Building the dbt Semantic Layer

This skill guides the creation and modification of dbt Semantic Layer components: semantic models, entities, dimensions, and metrics.

  • Semantic models - Metadata configurations that define how dbt models map to business concepts
  • Entities - Keys that identify the grain of your data and enable joins between semantic models
  • Dimensions - Attributes used to filter or group metrics (categorical or time-based)
  • Metrics - Business calculations defined on top of semantic models (e.g., revenue, order count)

Additional Resources

Determine Which Spec to Use

There are two versions of the Semantic Layer YAML spec:

  • Latest spec - Semantic models are configured as metadata on dbt models. Simpler authoring. Supported by dbt Core 1.12+ and Fusion.
  • Legacy spec - Semantic models are defined as separate top-level resources. Uses measures as building blocks for metrics. Supported by dbt Core 1.6 through 1.11. Also supported by Core 1.12+ for backwards compatibility.

Step 1: Check for Existing Semantic Layer Config

Look for existing semantic layer configuration in the project:

  • Top-level semantic_models: key in YAML files → legacy spec
  • semantic_model: block nested under a model → latest spec

Step 2: Route Based on What You Found

If semantic layer already exists:

  1. Determine which spec is currently in use (legacy or latest)
  2. Check dbt version for compatibility:
    • Legacy spec + Core 1.6-1.11 → Compatible. Use legacy spec guide.
    • Legacy spec + Core 1.12+ or Fusion → Compatible, but offer to upgrade first using uvx dbt-autofix deprecations --semantic-layer or the migration guide. They don't have to upgrade; continuing with legacy is fine.
    • Latest spec + Core 1.12+ or Fusion → Compatible. Use latest spec guide.
    • Latest spec + Core <1.12 → Incompatible. Help them upgrade to dbt Core 1.12+.

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 7d ago First seen · 184 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 85772b075714

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building-dbt-semantic-layer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace (175 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 2,119 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to building-dbt-semantic-layer, differing in 64 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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