dbt-commands

dbt-commands is a skill for Claude Code from sfc-gh-dflippo/snowflake-dbt-demo. It costs 53 tokens per session (3,365 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to dbt's command-line tools, model selection, Jinja templates, and troubleshooting. dbt is a tool that turns SQL transformations into managed, tested data models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running builds, tests, and other dbt commands; selecting models; writing Jinja macros; generating documentation; and debugging failures.
Why use it?
It helps developers run the right commands, select only the models they need, and diagnose configuration, compilation, or execution errors.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is dbt run --select state:modified --state ./prod-manifest/.

Good fit Running builds, tests, and other dbt commands; selecting models; writing Jinja macros; generating documentation; and debugging failures.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sfc-gh-dflippo/snowflake-dbt-demo
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sfc-gh-dflippo/snowflake-dbt-demo/dbt-commands

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,365 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 $0.00053 $0.03365
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01682
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00673
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00336

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8cbaa450342d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dbt-commands 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.

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.

.claude/skills/dbt-commands/SKILL.md · 657 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 657 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

dbt Commands & Operations

Purpose

Transform AI agents into experts on dbt command-line operations, model selection patterns, Jinja templating, and troubleshooting techniques for efficient dbt development and debugging.

When to Use This Skill

Activate this skill when users ask about:

  • Running dbt commands (build, run, test, compile)
  • Model selection syntax and patterns
  • Debugging compilation or execution errors
  • Using Jinja macros and templates
  • Troubleshooting dbt issues
  • Command-line flags and options
  • Generating and serving documentation
  • Understanding dbt command output

Official dbt Documentation: dbt Command Reference


Essential Commands

Setup & Installation

# Install dbt packages
dbt deps

# Test connection and configuration
dbt debug

# Clean compiled files and logs
dbt clean

Building Models

# Build everything (run + test) - RECOMMENDED
dbt build

# Build with full refresh of incremental models
dbt build --full-refresh

# Run all models (no tests)
dbt run

# Run and test separately
dbt run
dbt test

Best Practice: Use dbt build instead of separate run + test commands.


Model Selection Syntax

Basic Selection

# Specific model
dbt run --select model_name
dbt run --select dim_customers

# Multiple models
dbt run --select dim_customers fct_orders dim_products

Dependency Selection

# Model + upstream dependencies (parents)
dbt run --select +model_name
dbt run --select +dim_customers

# Model + downstream dependencies (children)
dbt run --select model_name+
dbt run --select dim_customers+

# Model + all dependencies (both directions)
dbt run --select +model_name+
dbt run --select +dim_customers+

Visualization:

+model_name    = model + all parents
model_name+    = model + all children
+model_name+   = model + all parents + all children

Selection by Tag

# Single tag
dbt run --select tag:bronze
dbt run --select tag:gold

# Multiple tags (AND logic - must have both)
dbt run --select tag:gold tag:critical

# Multiple tags (OR logic - has either)
dbt run --select tag:gold,tag:silver

Read the full file on GitHub · 657 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 · 657 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 8cbaa450342d

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dbt-commands is a skill published in the GitHub repository sfc-gh-dflippo/snowflake-dbt-demo (33 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 3,365 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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