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answering-natural-language-questions-with-dbt

Writes and executes SQL queries against the data warehouse using dbt's Semantic Layer or ad-hoc SQL to answer business questions. Use when a user asks about analytics, metrics, KPIs, or data (e.g., "What were total sales last quarter?", "Show me top customers by revenue"). NOT for validating, testing, or building dbt models during development.

ScannedSkillSource: GitHub

741 stars +8 this week Updated 16d ago License Apache-2.0 Context ≈98 tokens always loaded

67popular

Why this score

Stars

13/35

Usage (forks)

4/15

Upkeep

25/25

License

15/15

Owner history

10/10

This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 741 stars are split between them (about 74 each) for scoring.

Popularity score: 67/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank

Security

Scanned Oct 21, 2026 at commit ef5710860f19, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.

None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.

A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan

Alternatives

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This oneanswering-natural-language-questions-with-dbt dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills · Skill	67	★ 741	≈98 always	16d ago
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debugging-dbt-errors AltimateAI/data-engineering-skills · Skill Same job: data pipelines	59	★ 129	≈26 always	20d ago
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Install

mkdir -p .claude/skills/answering-natural-language-questions-with-dbt

curl -sL https://codeload.github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills/tar.gz/ef5710860f199897a304eabc8cd5c1973beb60ae | tar -xz -C .claude/skills/answering-natural-language-questions-with-dbt --strip-components=5 "dbt-agent-skills-ef5710860f199897a304eabc8cd5c1973beb60ae/skills/dbt/skills/answering-natural-language-questions-with-dbt"

To remove it later:

rm -rf .claude/skills/answering-natural-language-questions-with-dbt

npx skills add dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills --skill answering-natural-language-questions-with-dbt

Pinned to commit ef5710860f19 as listed by GitHub.

Context cost: ≈98 tokens loaded every session (name and description), plus ≈1.9k tokens when the skill is used.

The Claude Code command downloads this skill folder at the pinned commit into .claude/skills/. The Skills CLI (npx skills) works with many agents but can't pin a version, so it installs whatever is current.

Used for

Engineering › Testing & QA Engineering › Databases Data & analytics › Analytics & dashboards Data & analytics › Data pipelines

Facts

Repo: dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills
Stars: 741
Forks: 63
Last push: 2026-10-19 (16d ago)
License: Apache-2.0
Owner: dbt-labs · since 2016
Language: Python
Works with: Claude Code, Skills CLI