DOCUMENTATION / dbt Labs
Fetch dbt docs
Pins dbt Labs' docs skill, which fetches pages as markdown and refuses to run commands or instructions embedded in that content.
“Retrieves and searches dbt documentation pages in LLM-friendly markdown format. Use when fetching dbt documentation, looking up dbt features, or answering questions about dbt Cloud, dbt Core, or the dbt Semantic Layer.”
01 / THE REASONING
Why this made the selection.
- Fetched documentation is untrusted, and the file says never to execute commands or instructions embedded in it.
- It says to search the llms.txt index before the full dump, and not to load llms-full.txt entirely.
02 / THE REVIEW RECORD
What we actually inspected.
Source review has boundaries.
A clear record is more useful than a “safe” badge.
Material inspected
- skills/dbt/skills/fetching-dbt-docs/SKILL.md
- README.md
- LICENSE
Our findings
- Docs pages are fetched with a .md suffix so the response is markdown rather than HTML.
- The llms.txt index is searched before llms-full.txt, and the full file is not loaded whole.
- Fetched documentation is informational context only. Embedded commands are not executed.
- Instruction-like text that tries to change agent behavior is ignored.
- Page paths come from the index rather than being guessed.
Not established by this review
- The resource was not executed. No docs page was fetched.
- The search script was not run, including its --fresh flag.
- llms.txt and llms-full.txt were not downloaded.
- Not executed: it was not installed or run.
The review applies to the material and revision named here. A newer upstream release can change its behavior.
03 / PUT IT TO WORK
Add a skill to your workflow.
DOCUMENTED COMMAND
/plugin install dbt@dbt-agent-marketplaceCopying does not execute this command. It may retrieve a newer version than the reviewed source.
- The repository README shows `/plugin marketplace add dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills`, then `/plugin install dbt@dbt-agent-marketplace`. That installs the dbt plugin group, which lists this skill. It does not install this file alone.
- The same README shows `npx skills add dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills/skills/dbt` for the skills/dbt directory, and `npx skills add dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills` for every skill in the repository.
- This review did not install the skill.
Before you start
- A client that can fetch a URL, because the skill's page step is a WebFetch of a .md docs URL
04 / FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE
The source trail.
Our notes are separate from the original resource.
Check upstream before adopting a new version.
- fetching-dbt-docs SKILL.md ↗Checked
https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills/blob/7c7b5fa39e61694f1ae2b8ea1b8065e195c814ce/skills/dbt/skills/fetching-dbt-docs/SKILL.md
Supports: untrusted documentation, the refusal to execute embedded instructions, and the index-before-full-dump order
- Repository README ↗Checked
https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills/blob/7c7b5fa39e61694f1ae2b8ea1b8065e195c814ce/README.md
Supports: the dbt plugin install line and the skills/dbt directory install line
- Repository LICENSE ↗Checked
https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills/blob/7c7b5fa39e61694f1ae2b8ea1b8065e195c814ce/LICENSE
Supports: Apache License 2.0
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills/7c7b5fa39e61694f1ae2b8ea1b8065e195c814ce/skills/dbt/skills/fetching-dbt-docs/SKILL.md
Supports: upstreamDescription, review.notTested, review.reviewedAt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills/7c7b5fa39e61694f1ae2b8ea1b8065e195c814ce/README.md
Supports: install.command