Databricks AI Tools Skills
Build Databricks apps, jobs, pipelines, serving, and deployment bundles.
The canonical library includes stable product guidance and the author’s separately marked experimental additions. Generated agent-specific plugin copies are mirrors of the stable source.
Use cases
- Build a data pipeline and deploy its bundle
- Configure Lakebase or model serving
How to use
Use databricks aitools install and configure workspace authentication. Experimental Skills require the explicit experimental flag and have a lower support and review level.
Skills
databricks-agent-bricks
Create Agent Bricks: Knowledge Assistants (KA) for document Q&A and Supervisor Agents for multi-agent orchestration (MAS).
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-ai-functions
Use Databricks built-in AI Functions (ai_classify, ai_extract, ai_summarize, ai_mask, ai_translate, ai_fix_grammar, ai_gen, ai_analyze_sentiment, ai_similarity, ai_parse_document, ai_prep_search, ai_query, ai_forecast) to add AI capabilities directly to SQL and PySpark pipelines without managing model endpoints. Also covers document parsing and building custom RAG pipelines (parse → prep_search → index → query).
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-aibi-dashboards
Create Databricks AI/BI dashboards. Must use when creating, updating, or deploying Lakeview dashboards as Databricks Dashboard have a unique json structure. CRITICAL: You MUST test ALL SQL queries via CLI BEFORE deploying. Follow guidelines strictly.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-app-design
Design the UX of custom-code Databricks Apps (AppKit/React) data screens — KPI/overview pages, reports, charts, tables, and Genie/chat data assistants — mapped to concrete AppKit components. Use when BUILDING or reviewing the UI of an AppKit/React app that displays data or answers data questions: choosing genre, layout, charts, KPIs, semantic color, required states (loading/empty/error), IBCS notation, and AI-result trust (showing generated SQL/sources for Genie/chat). A plain "create a dashboard" request means a managed AI/BI (Lakeview) dashboard → use databricks-aibi-dashboards, NOT this skill. Also NOT for non-data frontend (forms, settings, auth, marketing) or scaffolding/build/deploy (→ databricks-apps). Complements databricks-apps; use it alongside whenever a custom app has a chart, table, KPI, report, or Genie/chat/AI surface.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-apps-python
Python backend for Databricks Apps — FastAPI (default), Flask, Dash, Streamlit, Gradio, Reflex. **Default for a new Databricks App is `databricks-apps` (AppKit — Node/TypeScript/React) — reach for it first.** Use this skill only when the user asks for a Python backend, extends an existing Python app, or the team is Python-only. Covers OAuth auth, app resources, SQL warehouse and Lakebase connectivity, foundation-model / Vector Search / model-serving APIs (via `databricks-python-sdk`), and deployment via CLI or DABs.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-apps
Build apps on Databricks Apps platform. Use when asked to create data apps, analytics tools, or custom interactive visualizations. A plain "create a dashboard" request means a managed AI/BI (Lakeview) dashboard → use databricks-aibi-dashboards, not this skill. Evaluates data access patterns (analytics vs Lakebase synced tables) before scaffolding. Invoke BEFORE starting implementation.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-core
Databricks CLI operations and the parent/entry-point skill for Databricks CLI use: authentication, profile selection, and bundles. Load this first for CLI, auth, profile, and bundle tasks, then load the matching product skill. For finding or exploring data, answering questions about the data, or generating SQL, load the databricks-data-discovery skill (it routes to Genie One). Contains up-to-date guidelines for Databricks-related CLI tasks.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-dabs
Create, configure, validate, deploy, run, and manage Declarative Automation Bundles (DABs, formerly Databricks Asset Bundles). Use when working with Databricks resources via DABs including dashboards, jobs, pipelines, alerts, volumes, and apps.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-data-discovery
Discover, explore, and query Databricks data via Genie — the CLI equivalent of the Genie One MCP. MUST be invoked whenever the user asks to find or locate data ('what tables are in X', 'where does X live', 'which catalog/schema has Y'), answer a natural-language question about the data, or write a SQL query.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-dbsql
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/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-docs
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.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-execution-compute
Execute code and manage compute on Databricks: run Python/Scala/SQL/R via serverless, classic, or interactive clusters, and create/resize/delete clusters and SQL warehouses.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-genie-agents
Create, manage, and query Databricks Genie Agents — curated, per-data natural-language agents (formerly Genie Spaces): build, export/import, migrate across workspaces, and ask questions of a *specific* Agent via the Conversation API. For general data questions or finding data across your workspace, use databricks-data-discovery (Genie One) instead.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-iceberg
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
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-jobs
Develop and deploy Lakeflow Jobs on Databricks via DABs, Python SDK, or the CLI. Use when creating data engineering jobs with notebooks, Python wheels, SQL, dbt, or pipelines. Invoke BEFORE starting implementation.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-lakebase
Databricks Lakebase Postgres: projects, scaling, connectivity, Lakebase synced tables, and Data API. Use when asked about Lakebase databases, OLTP storage, or connecting apps to Postgres on Databricks.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-lakeflow-connect
Build managed ingestion pipelines into Databricks using Lakeflow Connect. Use when ingesting from SaaS apps (Salesforce, Workday Reports, ServiceNow, Google Analytics 4, HubSpot, Confluence) or databases (SQL Server cloud and on-prem; PostgreSQL/MySQL CDC in PuPr) into Unity Catalog with serverless pipelines.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-metric-views
Unity Catalog metric views: define, create, query, and manage governed business metrics in YAML. Use when building standardized KPIs, revenue metrics, order analytics, or any reusable business metrics that need consistent definitions across teams and tools.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-ml-training
Train ML models on Databricks. Use for: classification/regression/deep-learning (XGBoost, scikit-learn, LightGBM, PyTorch) with Optuna, @prod/@challenger aliases, batch scoring (spark_udf for plain models, fe.score_batch for feature-store-backed), custom PyFunc, custom ResponsesAgent (LangGraph + UC Function/Vector Search); UC feature tables + FeatureLookup + point-in-time joins + Lakebase online store; declarative Feature Views (create_feature, DeltaTableSource, RollingWindow/SlidingWindow/TumblingWindow, materialize_features, streaming Kafka features). NOT for: endpoint ops (databricks-model-serving), MLflow evaluation (databricks-mlflow-evaluation).
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-mlflow-evaluation
MLflow 3 GenAI agent evaluation. Use when writing mlflow.genai.evaluate() code, creating @scorer functions, using built-in scorers (Guidelines, Correctness, Safety, RetrievalGroundedness), building eval datasets from traces, setting up trace ingestion and production monitoring, aligning judges with MemAlign from domain expert feedback, or running optimize_prompts() with GEPA for automated prompt improvement.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-model-serving
Databricks Model Serving endpoint lifecycle and ops. Use when asked to: CRUD serving endpoints (CLI or MLflow Deployments client); configure traffic routing for A/B / canary deploys and zero-downtime version swaps; retrieve OpenAPI schemas; inspect logs, metrics, or permissions; manage legacy AI Gateway rate limits (not Unity Gateway); discover Foundation Model API endpoints at runtime; integrate endpoints into Databricks Apps; or stream from off-platform clients (Vercel AI SDK v6, standalone Node.js). NOT for: Unity Gateway CRUD and management (databricks-unity-gateway), training, MLflow autologging, UC registration, custom PyFunc/ResponsesAgent authoring (databricks-ml-training); Knowledge Assistants/Supervisor Agents (databricks-agent-bricks); MLflow evaluation (databricks-mlflow-evaluation).
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-pipelines
Develop Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines (formerly Delta Live Tables) on Databricks. Use when building batch or streaming data pipelines with Python or SQL, including Auto CDC from event streams or periodic complete snapshots. Invoke BEFORE starting implementation.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-python-sdk
Databricks development guidance including Python SDK, Databricks Connect, CLI, and REST API. Use when working with databricks-sdk, databricks-connect, or Databricks APIs.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-serverless-migration
Migrate Databricks workloads from classic compute to serverless compute. Use when migrating notebooks, jobs, pipelines, or Scala JARs (`spark_jar_task`) from classic clusters to serverless, checking if existing code is serverless-compatible, or writing new serverless-compatible code. Provides concrete fixes for the serverless Spark Connect architecture and guides the full migration. Not for classic DBR version upgrades or cluster configuration changes within classic compute.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-serverless
Serverless compute for Databricks jobs, Lakeflow pipelines and Declarative Automation Bundles (DABs), with STANDARD or PERFORMANCE_OPTIMIZED and classic only where serverless cannot run the workload. Use when creating, deploying, scheduling or editing a job or pipeline, or deciding its compute. Invoke BEFORE writing a job spec. For migrating existing classic workloads, use databricks-serverless-migration.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-setup-local
Previews, provisions, or diagnoses a uv-managed local Python .venv with `databricks environments setup-local`. Use when the user wants to set up or fix one for Databricks Connect, cluster or serverless compute, `--job-task`, or a bundle target, or when setup-local fails.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-spark-structured-streaming
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.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-synthetic-data-gen
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'.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-unity-catalog
Unity Catalog governance, access control, and observability. Use to grant or revoke access (GRANT/REVOKE), reason about the privilege model and ownership, set up row-level security and column masks, create external locations and storage credentials, define catalogs/schemas/tables/volumes, answer "who can read this table", and query system tables (audit, lineage, billing) or work with volume files in /Volumes/.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-unity-gateway
Use when querying or calling pay-per-token foundation models, or when creating, updating, listing, or querying Unity Gateway (also called Unity AI Gateway) services, including model provider services, MCP services, system.ai services, and three-part Unity Catalog service names (catalog.schema.service). Also use for managing spend budgets and usage alerts on Unity Gateway, and for migrating from legacy AI Gateway. Also use when a workload with Model Serving endpoint permissions (for example CAN_QUERY) gets PERMISSION_DENIED querying a three-part model name, since serving-endpoint access does not grant access to a Unity Gateway service. Not for configuring legacy AI Gateway on Model Serving endpoints; use databricks-model-serving for that.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-unstructured-pdf-generation
Build RAG / unstructured-document evaluation datasets and demo documents (e.g. for Knowledge Assistant) on Databricks: generate synthetic PDFs locally, upload to Unity Catalog volumes, and pair each document with test questions for retrieval evaluation.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-vector-search
Databricks Vector Search endpoints and indexes for RAG and semantic search; covers index types, search modes, end-to-end RAG patterns
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-zerobus-ingest
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.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsdatabricks-ai-runtime
Databricks AI Runtime, the `databricks air` CLI commands for submitting and managing GPU training workloads on Databricks serverless compute. Use for: writing and submitting `databricks air` workload YAML, passing hyperparameters and secrets, checking run status, listing/cancelling runs, streaming a run's logs and watching its progress, custom Docker image setup, and environment configuration.
databricks/databricks-agent-skillsspark-python-data-source
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.
databricks/databricks-agent-skills