fetching-dbt-docs

by @dbt-labs in DevOps & Cloud

# Install this skill:

npx skills add dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills --skill "fetching-dbt-docs"

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# Description

Use when fetching dbt documentation, looking up dbt features, or answering questions about dbt Cloud, dbt Core, or the dbt Semantic Layer

# SKILL.md

name: fetching-dbt-docs
description: Use when fetching dbt documentation, looking up dbt features, or answering questions about dbt Cloud, dbt Core, or the dbt Semantic Layer
user-invocable: false
metadata:
author: dbt-labs

Fetch dbt Docs

Overview

dbt docs have LLM-friendly URLs. Always append .md to get clean markdown instead of HTML.

URL Pattern

Browser URL	LLM-friendly URL
`https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/service-tokens`	`https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/service-tokens.md`
`https://docs.getdbt.com/reference/commands/run`	`https://docs.getdbt.com/reference/commands/run.md`

Quick Reference

Resource	URL	Use Case
Single page	Add `.md` to any docs URL	Fetch specific documentation
Page index	`https://docs.getdbt.com/llms.txt`	Find all available pages
Full docs	`https://docs.getdbt.com/llms-full.txt`	Search across all docs (filter by keyword first)

Fetching a Single Page

WebFetch: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/path/to/page.md

Always add .md to the URL path.

Finding Pages

Step 1: Search the Index First

Use llms.txt to search page titles and descriptions:

WebFetch: https://docs.getdbt.com/llms.txt
Prompt: "Find pages related to [topic]. Return the URLs."

This is fast and usually sufficient.

Step 2: Search Full Docs (Only if Needed)

If the index doesn't have results, use the script to search full page content:

~/.claude/skills/fetch-dbt-docs/search-dbt-docs.sh <keyword>

# Examples
~/.claude/skills/fetch-dbt-docs/search-dbt-docs.sh semantic_model
~/.claude/skills/fetch-dbt-docs/search-dbt-docs.sh "incremental strategy"
~/.claude/skills/fetch-dbt-docs/search-dbt-docs.sh metric dimension  # OR search

# Force fresh download (bypass 24h cache)
~/.claude/skills/fetch-dbt-docs/search-dbt-docs.sh metric --fresh

Then fetch individual pages with .md URLs.

Common Mistakes

Mistake	Fix
Fetching HTML URL without `.md`	Always append `.md` to docs URLs
Searching llms-full.txt first	Search llms.txt index first, only use full docs if no results
Loading llms-full.txt entirely	Use the search script to filter, then fetch individual pages
Guessing page paths	Use llms.txt index to find correct paths

# Supported AI Coding Agents

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