Robot data engineer skills (parent + transforms + semantic-layer + viz)

.claude-plugin/marketplace.json

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
   "plugins": [
     {
       "name": "metabase-cli",
-      "description": "Drive a Metabase instance from the terminal via the `mb` CLI: auth, list/get/create/update/delete on every resource, run queries and transforms, git-sync content to and from a remote. Bundles transform and git-sync references as on-demand skills served by `mb skills get`.",
+      "description": "Be your data analyst / data engineer for Metabase, from the terminal via the `mb` CLI. Go from raw data to something a non-technical person can use: clean tables, reusable metrics, dashboards, and written answers. Use when someone wants to \"make sense of my data\", \"build a data model\", \"go from raw data to a dashboard\", \"answer questions about my data\", \"report on who registered / signed up / responded\", or \"set up analytics for X\". Also full CRUD on every Metabase resource (cards, dashboards, transforms, queries), git-sync content to and from a remote, and on-demand workflow skills served by `mb skills get`.",
       "source": "./",
       "strict": false,
       "skills": ["./skills/metabase-cli"],

.github/workflows/lint.yml

@@ -35,3 +35,12 @@ jobs:
           bun-version: latest
       - run: bun install
       - run: bun run format:check
+
+  skills:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: stbenjam/skillsaw@v0
+        with:
+          path: skill-data
+          strict: true

.skillsaw.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# skillsaw configuration — https://github.com/stbenjam/skillsaw
+# Lints the skill collection under skill-data/. Pinned so a skillsaw
+# release can't silently change token math and break CI.
+
+version: "0.11.4"
+
+rules:
+  context-budget:
+    enabled: true
+    severity: warning
+    limits:
+      # Skill bodies are loaded into Claude's context when a skill fires.
+      # The default warn (3000) is tuned for lean skills; ours are dense
+      # reference/strategy skills whose de-fluffed floor is higher. The
+      # always-resident skills (core, robot-data-engineer) are the tightest
+      # of the set; the larger ones (data-transformation, semantic-layer,
+      # mbql) are leaf skills loaded for a single stage, where the extra
+      # tokens are genuine guidance, not fluff. 6000 clears the largest
+      # honest floor while still catching real future bloat.
+      skill:
+        warn: 6000
+      skill-description:
+        warn: 200

README.md

@@ -1338,12 +1338,15 @@ mb skills path core                         # one path
 
 Bundled skills:
 
-| Name        | Use                                                                                    |
-| ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `core`      | Top-level guide: auth, flag conventions, output flags, body input, every command group |
-| `transform` | Authoring and running transforms (native SQL + MBQL 5), iteration, run inspection      |
-| `document`  | Authoring document bodies: the TipTap JSON tree, embedding cards, entity links         |
-| `git-sync`  | Round-tripping Metabase content to/from a git remote                                   |
+| Name                  | Use                                                                                           |
+| --------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `core`                | Top-level guide: auth, flag conventions, output flags, body input, every command group        |
+| `transform`           | Authoring and running transforms (native SQL + MBQL 5), iteration, run inspection             |
+| `data-transformation` | Raw, normalized source database → clean, wide, analysis-ready tables for a non-technical user |
+| `semantic-layer`      | Turning clean tables into reusable segments, measures, and metrics for a non-technical user   |
+| `robot-data-engineer` | Front-door router for the whole journey (raw → tables → definitions → dashboards)             |
+| `document`            | Authoring document bodies: the TipTap JSON tree, embedding cards, entity links                |
+| `git-sync`            | Round-tripping Metabase content to/from a git remote                                          |
 
 Discovery surfaces:
 

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@metabase/cli",
-  "version": "0.1.10",
+  "version": "0.1.11",
   "description": "Metabase CLI",
   "license": "AGPL-3.0",
   "repository": {
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
     "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit",
     "lint": "oxlint",
     "lint:fix": "oxlint --fix",
+    "lint:skills": "uvx skillsaw lint skill-data/ --strict",
     "format": "oxfmt",
     "format:check": "oxfmt --check",
     "sync:representations": "bun run scripts/sync-representations.ts",