looker-architect

looker-architect is a skill for Claude Code from looker-open-source/looker-skills. It costs 41 tokens per session (6,845 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An architecture guide for building, changing, checking, and reviewing LookML projects. It organizes raw database-table definitions separately from refined views that add business logic, while applying rules for maintainability and query performance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when scaffolding or refactoring LookML, separating raw and refined views, configuring advanced drills, checking project quality, or auditing an existing Looker project.
Why use it?
It gives large Looker projects a consistent structure and keeps database mapping separate from business definitions. This makes the code easier to maintain and review as the project grows.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; positional $N argument.

Part of the looker-skills plugin — 23 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when scaffolding or refactoring LookML, separating raw and refined views, configuring advanced drills, checking project quality, or auditing an existing Looker project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/looker-open-source/looker-skills/looker-architect
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.

Any agent
npx skills add looker-open-source/looker-skills --skill looker-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/looker-open-source/looker-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install looker-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,845 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00041 $0.06845
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.03423
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.01369
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00685

Measured 12d ago against content hash cf3d620af8f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

looker-architect 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (looker_scaffold.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/looker-architect/SKILL.md · 432 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 432 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Looker Architect

This master developer skill governs the lifecycle of building, refactoring, validating, and auditing enterprise-grade LookML projects. Built upon the architectural standards, design principles, and best practices used internally at Google to engineer official Looker Blocks, it empowers developers to build block-quality analytical applications. It enforces a strict separation of concerns, performance-first design, automated testing, and comprehensive documentation.

All LookML projects developed under this skill must be dialect-agnostic, schema-agnostic, and compatible with any database connection. They strictly adhere to the highest standards of LookML, Google Cloud best practices, and enterprise data governance guidelines.


1. Standard Project Structure

Every LookML project MUST follow this clean, modular directory structure to ensure maintainability, enable robust version control, and prevent compilation bloat:

├── views/
│   ├── raw/                 # Raw views mapping 1:1 to physical database tables
│   │   ├── [view_name].view.lkml
│   └── refined/             # Refined views (extends/refines raw views with business logic)
│       └── [view_name]_rfn.view.lkml
├── explores/                # Modular Explore files (one explore per file: *.explore.lkml)
│   └── [explore_name].explore.lkml
├── tests/                   # LookML test suites (one suite per explore: *.test.lkml)
│   └── [explore_name].test.lkml
├── dashboards/              # LookML dashboard files (*.dashboard.lookml)
│   └── [dashboard_name].dashboard.lookml
├── [project_name].model.lkml # Clean model file (connection constant, caching, and includes only)
├── manifest.lkml            # Defines constants (connection, dataset, and visualization configs)
├── README.md                # End-user documentation (installation, PDT config, KPIs)
├── LICENSE                  # Apache 2.0 or standard open-source license
└── CONTRIBUTING.md          # Guidelines for contributing to the project

Read the full file on GitHub · 432 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. 12d ago First seen · 432 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A cf3d620af8f3

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looker-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository looker-open-source/looker-skills (28 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 6,845 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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