dbt Agent Skills — Frontmatter Rules & Error Table
The most actionable take on SKILL.md frontmatter: the exact allowed fields, the lowercase-hyphen name rule, and a validation-error → fix table so the agent can self-correct. A clean model for encoding a spec's constraints plus its common failure modes in one place.
By dbt-labs
How to install
Skill (folder)A Skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file that gives Claude extra instructions for a task.
Claude Code (project or global):
# per-project mkdir -p .claude/skills/dbt-agent-skills-frontmatter-rules-error # ...or for all projects mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/dbt-agent-skills-frontmatter-rules-error # copy SKILL.md and any supporting files into that folder
Claude.ai / Claude Desktop:
Customize → Skills → “+” → Browse skills → Install. (Installed skills are view-only; download a copy to customise.)
Claude auto-detects skills in that folder — no restart needed.
Exact steps can vary per project — always double-check the original source. New to this? Read the full install guide →
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