dbt-preflight

dbt-preflight is a skill for Claude Code from yeaight7/agent-powerups. It costs 46 tokens per session (713 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only pre-release review for changes in a dbt analytics project. It lists changed models and related assets, estimates downstream impact, and checks testing, contracts, documentation, and YAML alignment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before reviewing or opening a pull request for changed dbt models, snapshots, seeds, macros, tests, semantic models, metrics, or saved queries.
Why use it?
It helps reveal the scope and risk of a change before a pull request or merge. This reduces the chance of shipping an affected downstream model or an untested change.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the data-engineering plugin — 8 skills, 4 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it before reviewing or opening a pull request for changed dbt models, snapshots, seeds, macros, tests, semantic models, metrics, or saved queries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yeaight7/agent-powerups/dbt-preflight
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 yeaight7/agent-powerups --skill dbt-preflight
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yeaight7/agent-powerups

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install data-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 4 commands, 3 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 713 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 $0.00046 $0.00713
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00285
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00071

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 33c8b7442f79, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dbt-preflight 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 1mo 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.

plugins/data-engineering/skills/dbt-preflight/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Inspect a dbt change set before it ships: identify which assets changed, estimate downstream impact, detect likely gaps in testing, contracts, documentation, and YAML alignment, and recommend the narrowest safe validation path. Preflight is read-only — do not edit code unless explicitly asked.

When to Use

  • Before opening a PR in an analytics repository
  • Reviewing someone else's dbt change
  • Assessing the risk of a change whose downstream impact is unclear

Inputs

  • The change set (branch diff or working tree)
  • The dbt project, for lineage and selector queries

Workflow

  1. Enumerate changed assets:

    git diff --name-status origin/main...HEAD
    

    Classify each change: models, snapshots, seeds, macros, tests, schema YAML, semantic models, metrics, saved queries, exposures or BI-facing assets.

  2. Estimate blast radius. For each changed model, list downstream dependents:

    dbt ls --select <model>+
    

    If a production manifest is available, cover the whole change set at once:

    dbt ls --select state:modified+ --state <path-to-prod-artifacts>
    
  3. Run the review checklist. Check for:

    • model grain changes
    • renamed columns or breaking contract changes
    • missing or weakened tests
    • YAML not updated after model changes
    • metrics or semantic definitions drifting from prior meaning
    • high blast radius due to downstream dependencies
    • incremental logic changes
    • snapshot logic changes
    • joins or filters that may alter business meaning
  4. Recommend the narrowest meaningful validation path first:

    1. targeted checks: dbt build --select <changed_model>
    2. narrow downstream checks: dbt build --select <changed_model>+1
    3. broader PR-level validation only if needed: dbt build --select state:modified+ --state <path>

    If exact commands are available in the repo (Makefile, CI config, docs), prefer them. If not, say what should be validated conceptually.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 1mo ago First seen · 83 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 33c8b7442f79

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dbt-preflight is a skill published in the GitHub repository yeaight7/agent-powerups (6 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 713 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-14.