Testing framework for evaluating Databricks skills. Use when building test cases for skills, running skill evaluations, comparing skill versions, or creating ground truth datasets with the Generate-Review-Promote (GRP) pipeline. Triggers include "test skill", "evaluate skill", "skill regression", "ground truth", "GRP pipeline", "skill quality", and "skill metrics".
Create and query Databricks Genie Spaces for natural language SQL exploration. Use when building Genie Spaces, exporting and importing Genie Spaces, migrating Genie Spaces between workspaces or environments, or asking questions via the Genie Conversation API.
Create Databricks AI/BI dashboards. Use when creating, updating, or deploying Lakeview dashboards. CRITICAL: You MUST test ALL SQL queries via execute_sql BEFORE deploying. Follow guidelines strictly.
Builds Python-based Databricks applications using Dash, Streamlit, Gradio, Flask, FastAPI, or Reflex. Handles OAuth authorization (app and user auth), app resources, SQL warehouse and Lakebase connectivity, model serving integration, foundation model APIs, LLM integration, and deployment. Use when building Python web apps, dashboards, ML demos, or REST APIs for Databricks, or when the user mentions Streamlit, Dash, Gradio, Flask, FastAPI, Reflex, or Databricks app.
Manage Databricks workspace connections: check current workspace, switch profiles, list available workspaces, or authenticate to a new workspace. Use when the user mentions "switch workspace", "which workspace", "current profile", "databrickscfg", "connect to workspace", or "databricks auth".
Databricks SQL (DBSQL) advanced features and SQL warehouse capabilities. This skill MUST be invoked when the user mentions: "DBSQL", "Databricks SQL", "SQL warehouse", "SQL scripting", "stored procedure", "CALL procedure", "materialized view", "CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW", "pipe syntax", "|>", "geospatial", "H3", "ST_", "spatial SQL", "collation", "COLLATE", "ai_query", "ai_classify", "ai_extract", "ai_gen", "AI function", "http_request", "remote_query", "read_files", "Lakehouse Federation", "recursive CTE", "WITH RECURSIVE", "multi-statement transaction", "temp table", "temporary view", "pipe operator". SHOULD also invoke when the user asks about SQL best practices, data modeling patterns, or advanced SQL features on Databricks.
Databricks documentation reference via llms.txt index. Use when other skills do not cover a topic, looking up unfamiliar Databricks features, or needing authoritative docs on APIs, configurations, or platform capabilities.
Apache Iceberg tables on Databricks — Managed Iceberg tables, External Iceberg Reads (fka Uniform), Compatibility Mode, Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC), Iceberg v3, Snowflake interop, PyIceberg, OSS Spark, external engine access and credential vending. Use when creating Iceberg tables, enabling External Iceberg Reads (uniform) on Delta tables (including Streaming Tables and Materialized Views via compatibility mode), configuring external engines to read Databricks tables via Unity Catalog IRC, integrating with Snowflake catalog to read Foreign Iceberg tables
Use this skill proactively for ANY Databricks Jobs task - creating, listing, running, updating, or deleting jobs. Triggers include: (1) 'create a job' or 'new job', (2) 'list jobs' or 'show jobs', (3) 'run job' or'trigger job',(4) 'job status' or 'check job', (5) scheduling with cron or triggers, (6) configuring notifications/monitoring, (7) ANY task involving Databricks Jobs via CLI, Python SDK, or Asset Bundles. ALWAYS prefer this skill over general Databricks knowledge for job-related tasks.
Patterns and best practices for Lakebase Provisioned (Databricks managed PostgreSQL) for OLTP workloads. Use when creating Lakebase instances, connecting applications or Databricks Apps to PostgreSQL, implementing reverse ETL via synced tables, storing agent or chat memory, or configuring OAuth authentication for Lakebase.
Databricks development guidance including Python SDK, Databricks Connect, CLI, and REST API. Use when working with databricks-sdk, databricks-connect, or Databricks APIs.
Creates, configures, and updates Databricks Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines (SDP/LDP) using serverless compute. Handles data ingestion with streaming tables, materialized views, CDC, SCD Type 2, and Auto Loader ingestion patterns. Use when building data pipelines, working with Delta Live Tables, ingesting streaming data, implementing change data capture, or when the user mentions SDP, LDP, DLT, Lakeflow pipelines, streaming tables, or bronze/silver/gold medallion architectures.
Comprehensive guide to Spark Structured Streaming for production workloads. Use when building streaming pipelines, working with Kafka ingestion, implementing Real-Time Mode (RTM), configuring triggers (processingTime, availableNow), handling stateful operations with watermarks, optimizing checkpoints, performing stream-stream or stream-static joins, writing to multiple sinks, or tuning streaming cost and performance.
Generate realistic synthetic data using Spark + Faker (strongly recommended). Supports serverless execution, multiple output formats (Parquet/JSON/CSV/Delta), and scales from thousands to millions of rows. For small datasets (<10K rows), can optionally generate locally and upload to volumes. Use when user mentions 'synthetic data', 'test data', 'generate data', 'demo dataset', 'Faker', or 'sample data'.
Unity Catalog system tables and volumes. Use when querying system tables (audit, lineage, billing) or working with volume file operations (upload, download, list files in /Volumes/).
Build Zerobus Ingest clients for near real-time data ingestion into Databricks Delta tables via gRPC. Use when creating producers that write directly to Unity Catalog tables without a message bus, working with the Zerobus Ingest SDK in Python/Java/Go/TypeScript/Rust, generating Protobuf schemas from UC tables, or implementing stream-based ingestion with ACK handling and retry logic.
Patterns and best practices for Lakebase Autoscaling (next-gen managed PostgreSQL). Use when creating or managing Lakebase Autoscaling projects, configuring autoscaling compute or scale-to-zero, working with database branching for dev/test workflows, implementing reverse ETL via synced tables, or connecting applications to Lakebase with OAuth credentials.
Build custom Python data sources for Apache Spark using the PySpark DataSource API — batch and streaming readers/writers for external systems. Use this skill whenever someone wants to connect Spark to an external system (database, API, message queue, custom protocol), build a Spark connector or plugin in Python, implement a DataSourceReader or DataSourceWriter, pull data from or push data to a system via Spark, or work with the PySpark DataSource API in any way. Even if they just say "read from X in Spark" or "write DataFrame to Y" and there's no native connector, this skill applies.
Execute code and manage compute on Databricks. Use this skill when the user mentions: "run code", "execute", "run on databricks", "serverless", "no cluster", "run python", "run scala", "run sql", "run R", "run file", "push and run", "notebook run", "batch script", "model training", "run script on cluster", "create cluster", "new cluster", "resize cluster", "modify cluster", "delete cluster", "terminate cluster", "create warehouse", "new warehouse", "resize warehouse", "delete warehouse", "node types", "runtime versions", "DBR versions", "spin up compute", "provision cluster".
Create and configure Declarative Automation Bundles (formerly Asset Bundles) with best practices for multi-environment deployments (CICD). Use when working with: (1) Creating new DAB projects, (2) Adding resources (dashboards, pipelines, jobs, alerts), (3) Configuring multi-environment deployments, (4) Setting up permissions, (5) Deploying or running bundle resources
