dbt-and-analytics-engineering

dbt-and-analytics-engineering is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (510 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building analytics models with dbt, a tool that turns SQL transformations into documented, tested data models. It focuses on staging, intermediate, mart, snapshot, and semantic-serving layers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or change dbt models, add tests or snapshots, document business logic, organize metrics, and prepare outputs for a semantic layer or BI tools.
Why use it?
It keeps data-cleaning steps, business rules, and published definitions from becoming mixed together. Tests and documentation make models easier for analysts and reporting tools to understand and use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create or change dbt models, add tests or snapshots, document business logic, organize metrics, and prepare outputs for a semantic layer or BI tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills/dbt-and-analytics-engineering
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills --skill dbt-and-analytics-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 510 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 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 $0.00043 $0.00510
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00255
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00051

Measured 9d ago against content hash e468310b64da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dbt-and-analytics-engineering 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 9d 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/dbt-and-analytics-engineering/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

dbt And Analytics Engineering

Overview

Use this skill when the job is analytics engineering rather than raw ingestion. It helps agents build trustworthy dbt projects with clear layering, reusable models, tests, documentation, and publish-safe business definitions.

When to Use

  • creating or changing dbt models
  • building staging, intermediate, or mart layers
  • adding tests, snapshots, or exposures
  • organizing business logic for analysts and BI tools
  • preparing semantic-layer-friendly outputs

Do not use this to justify putting ingestion or orchestration logic inside dbt.

Workflow

  1. Confirm the model's role. Decide whether it belongs in:

    • staging
    • intermediate
    • marts
    • snapshot or semantic-serving layers
  2. Define the business grain and contract. Capture:

    • keys
    • metric intent
    • filter logic
    • null handling
    • freshness expectations
  3. Add tests and documentation with the model. Typical checks:

    • unique
    • not null
    • relationships
    • accepted values
    • source freshness where relevant
  4. Keep model boundaries clean. Avoid mixing raw cleanup, business logic, and publish semantics in one model.

  5. Validate downstream usability. Make sure the output is understandable to analysts, dashboards, and metric consumers.

Common Rationalizations

Rationalization Reality
"It is only SQL, we do not need model structure." Poor layering creates brittle marts and duplicate business logic.
"We can add tests after the dashboard is working." Untested metrics create trust problems that are hard to unwind.
"A giant model is easier to maintain." Monolithic models hide grain changes, assumptions, and reuse opportunities.

Red Flags

  • model grain is unclear
  • business logic is duplicated across marts
  • no YAML tests or documentation accompany the change
  • publish models depend directly on raw sources without clear staging

Verification

  • The model has a clear layer and business purpose
  • Grain, keys, and metric assumptions are explicit
  • Tests and documentation ship with the model
  • Output usability for downstream consumers has been considered

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. 9d ago First seen · 74 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A e468310b64da

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dbt-and-analytics-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills (43 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 510 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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