lookml-modeling-guidelines

lookml-modeling-guidelines is a skill for Claude Code from looker-open-source/looker-skills. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,947 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Guidelines for modeling data in LookML and using the Looker command-line tool. LookML is the language that defines database fields, calculations, joins, dashboards, and related checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to plan or edit project, model, view, dashboard, refinement, data-test, and document files, and to discover existing Looker resources.
Why use it?
They help agents choose the right LookML file and follow a consistent process before changing a data model.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

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

Good fit Use them to plan or edit project, model, view, dashboard, refinement, data-test, and document files, and to discover existing Looker resources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/looker-open-source/looker-skills/lookml-modeling-guidelines
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 lookml-modeling-guidelines
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 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,947 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Memory Poisoning · line 46
    Skill attempts to fill the context window with filler content, displacing legitimate instructions and safety constraints. This can degrade agent performance or bypass safety boundaries.
    Fix: Implement context-window management that detects and rejects padding or stuffing attempts. Prioritize system instructions over user-injected content.
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 $0.00017 $0.01947
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00974
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00389
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00195

Measured 11d ago against content hash 72a31d7e0d6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lookml-modeling-guidelines 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 11d 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.

skills/lookml-modeling-guidelines/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LookML Modeling Guidelines

This guide provides instructions on how to effectively use the Looker CLI to assist with LookML modeling tasks. It synthesizes best practices for LookML development with effective CLI usage.

LookML File Types

Understand the purpose of different file types in a LookML project:

  • Project Manifest (manifest.lkml): Global configuration for the project, including imports and constants.
  • Model Files (.model.lkml): Defines database connections and Explores (how views are joined).
  • View Files (.view.lkml): Blueprints for data, defining dimensions, measures, and derived tables.
  • Dashboard Files (.dashboard.lookml): LookML-defined dashboards (layout, visualizations, filters).
  • Specialized Files: Refinement files (for overriding/patching), Data Test files (automated logic checks), and Document files (.md).

1. Analyzing Requirements

Before writing any LookML code or making modifications, analyze the user's request to determine the necessary LookML elements.

  • Understand the Request: Identify the core business question or technical requirement.
  • Identify Existing Resources:
    • Use the Discovery tools (see section 2) to search the existing LookML project.
    • Identify which existing columns (dimensions) and measures are best suited to answer the user prompt.
    • Do not recreate existing logic. Reuse existing elements whenever possible.
  • Determine Necessary Additions:
    • Identify if any new LookML elements are required to fulfill the prompt:
      • New Views: Are we introducing new tables or derived tables? (Note: If creating a derived table or PDT, you MUST consult the lookml-pdt-guidelines skill).
      • New Dimensions: Do we need to expose new columns or define new logic from existing columns?
      • New Measures: Are we adding new aggregations (e.g., count, sum, average) or calculated metrics?
      • Other Elements: Do we need new joins in an Explore, or other LookML elements?

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 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. 11d ago First seen · 186 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 72a31d7e0d6c

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lookml-modeling-guidelines 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 17 tokens to every session and 1,947 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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