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This plugin provides a specialized suite of skills for data engineers and database practitioners working on Google Cloud. It acts as an expert assistant, allowing you to use natural language prompts in your preferred coding agent to architect complex data pipelines, transform data with dbt, write Spark and BigQuery SQL notebooks, and orchestrate end-to-end workflows across GCP's data ecosystem.

accidental-data-loss-prevention

**STOP AND VERIFY**: Before running any command or tool that results in irreversible data loss, you MUST obtain explicit user consent. When in doubt, ask. It is better to wait for confirmation than to accidentally delete production data or critical project assets. Use this for: - SQL: DROP TABLE/VIEW/SCHEMA/DATABASE, TRUNCATE, or broad DELETE (missing WHERE or using 1=1). - Cloud Storage: gsutil rm or gcloud storage rm targeting production data or critical buckets. - Infrastructure: gcloud projects delete, deleting Spanner/BigQuery/Dataproc resources, deleting secrets, or KMS key destruction.

bigquery-ai-ml

Leverages BigQuery's built-in machine learning and GenAI capabilities for advanced data analytics. Use when you need to write SQL queries that perform time-series forecasting, detect outliers, find key drivers, or leverage generative AI capabilities in BigQuery.

bigquery-bigframes

Generates Python code using BigQuery DataFrames (BigFrames), the pandas/scikit-learn-style API over BigQuery. Use when writing BigFrames code or doing pandas-style dataframe/ML work against BigQuery (e.g. in a notebook). Don't use for SQL-first workflows or the google-cloud-bigquery client library — use bigquery-basics.

bigquery-data-transfer-service

Discovers and inspects BigQuery Data Transfer Service (DTS) configurations. Use this to identify existing ingestion pipelines and extract datasource or transfer config metadata for data pipelines. Use when a user asks for ingestion scenarios while building or managing data pipelines or when a user asks to "ingest" or "add" data that may already be managed by a DTS transfer.

bigquery-graph

Provides guidelines and best practices for querying and defining property graphs and semantic graphs in BigQuery using GQL (Graph Query Language). Use when creating property graphs or querying graph topologies in BigQuery.

bigquery-sql

Provides BigQuery SQL query optimization techniques, execution best practices, and performance tuning rules for high-efficiency querying. Use when optimizing BigQuery SQL queries, reducing query costs, or designing performant SQL transformations.

building-data-apps

Build modern data apps, dashboards, and interactive reports using either React + Vite or Streamlit. Includes optional Gemini Data Analytics chat integration for an AI powered "chat with your data" experience. Relevant when any of the following conditions are true: 1. User explicitly requests to build a data dashboard, data application, or visualization UI, and the UI pulls data from a GCP database (defaulting to BigQuery unless otherwise specified). 2. You need to generate a frontend web application to interact with, query, and visualize data from GCP data sources. 3. User wants to build a "chat with your data" experience or integrate the Gemini Data Analytics chat API into a web interface. Do NOT use when any of the following conditions are true: 1. The request is for building backend-only services. 2. The request is for simple CLI scripts or command-line applications. 3. The web application is not data-centric or does not involve visualizing/querying data from GCP sources.

data-autocleaning

Automated data quality and transformation capabilities for Dataform/dbt/BigQuery pipelines. Processes data sourced from BigQuery or Cloud Storage (GCS), applying best practices for data ingestion, movement, schema mapping, and comprehensive data cleaning.

dataform-bigquery

Expertise in generating clean, correct, and efficient Dataform pipeline code for BigQuery ELT. Use this when creating or modifying Dataform pipelines, actions, or source declarations, when Dataform, SQLX, or BigQuery are mentioned in a transformation, when data needs to be ingested from GCS into BigQuery via Dataform, or when setting up a new Dataform project or configuring workflow_settings.yaml.

dbt-bigquery

Expert guidance for creating, modifying, and optimizing dbt pipelines for BigQuery. Use this skill whenever user asks for generating or modifying a dbt model or project. Activate this skill when the user - Creates, modifies, or troubleshoots **dbt models or pipelines** - Needs to **optimize SQL** within a dbt project - Is **setting up a new dbt project** or configuring existing one

discovering-gcp-data-assets

Finds and inspects data assets within Google Cloud. Relevant when any of the following conditions are true: 1. The user request involves finding, exploring, or inspecting data assets in Google Cloud, such as: - BigQuery datasets, tables, or views - BigLake catalog or tables - Spanner instances, databases or tables - etc. 2. You need to retrieve the schema, metadata, or governance policies for a GCP data asset. 3. You have a keyword or topic (e.g., "sales data") but lack the specific table or resource ID. 4. You are attempting to find data using bq ls, as this skill offers a superior approach. Don't use when: - Assets are outside Google Cloud

enforcing-resource-attribution

Enforces resource attribution for CLI commands. Use this skill whenever you are running bq or gcloud commands via run_command. It ensures mandatory labeling for supported bq operations while avoiding invalid flags on read-only commands.

federate-lakehouse-catalog

Sets up Google Cloud Lakehouse federated catalogs to remote Iceberg REST Catalogs. Currently supported catalogs: Databricks Unity, AWS Glue. Supported clouds hosting those catalogs: GCP, AWS. The primary use case is connecting to remote data to query it from GCP engines (BigQuery, Spark). Examples of when to use this: "federate my lakehouse catalog to databricks", "query data in databricks", "query data in s3", "connect to aws glue". Do NOT use for direct remote database SQL execution (e.g., Databricks SQL) or managing remote clusters and infrastructure (e.g., Databricks clusters, AWS Glue jobs).

gcloud-auth-verification

Guidelines for identifying and resolving missing Google Cloud authentication and Application Default Credentials (ADC). Use this skill if gcloud, bq, dataform, or Python libraries return authentication errors.

gcp-composer-troubleshooting

Provides expert guidance for troubleshooting Cloud Composer (Apache Airflow) and Orchestration pipelines. Use this skill when the user asks to generate Root Cause Analysis (RCA), troubleshoot or fix a failed pipeline, DAG in Composer environment and generate RCA report.

gcp-data-pipelines

Primary entry point for building, managing, and orchestrating data pipelines on Google Cloud. Guides users to the appropriate skill for dbt, Dataflow (Apache Beam), Dataform, Spark (Dataproc Serverless), BigQuery Data Transfer Service (DTS) or orchestration pipeline using Cloud Composer. Clarify requirements and resolve ambiguity for creating, updating and running data pipelines.

gcp-dataflow

Guides writing, packaging, executing, and troubleshooting Apache Beam pipelines on Dataflow. Use when creating new pipelines, configuring Flex Templates, or analyzing performance of Dataflow jobs. Capabilities include Java/Python/Go setup, Cloud Build integration, and deep diagnostic analysis of job health and autoscaling. Use when: - Creating an Apache Beam Dataflow pipeline. - Creating a Google Dataflow Flex Template. - Using an existing Google Dataflow Template. - Debugging Dataflow pipeline - Troubleshooting Dataflow pipeline - Analyzing Performance of Dataflow pipeline. Key capabilities: Java/Python/Go project setup, Flex Templates (with Cloud Build), and diagnostics for streaming job health, bottlenecks, and autoscaling. Do NOT use for: - General GCP resource management unrelated to Dataflow. - Issues with other GCP services (e.g., GCE, GCS, BigQuery) unless directly impacting Dataflow pipeline execution. - Pipeline technologies other than Apache Beam on Dataflow.

gcp-managed-airflow-migrations

Provides guidance for migrating Apache Airflow DAGs in Managed Service for Apache Airflow (MSAA; formerly Cloud Composer). Covers migration to Airflow 2.11.1 (MSAA Gen 2 and 3) and Airflow 3 (MSAA Gen 3), including environment inspection, GCS download/upload and scanning patterns for breaking changes.

gcp-pipeline-orchestration

This skill helps the agent generate or update orchestration pipeline definitions for Google Cloud Composer to initialize orchestration pipeline or update the orchestration definition for orchestration of various data pipelines, like dbt pipelines, notebooks, Spark jobs, Dataform, Python scripts or inline BigQuery SQL queries. This skill also helps deploy and trigger orchestration pipelines.

gcp-pipeline-resource-provisioning

Automates declarative resource creation and provisioning for data pipelines, supporting BigQuery, Dataform, Dataproc, BigQuery Data Transfer Service (DTS), and other resources. It manages environment-specific configurations (dev, staging, prod) through a deployment.yaml file. Use when: - Modifying or creating deployment.yaml for deployment settings. - Resolving environment-specific variables (e.g., Project IDs, Regions) for deployment. - Provisioning supported infrastructure like BigQuery datasets/tables, Dataform resources, or DTS resources via deployment.yaml. Do not use when: - Resources already exist. - Managing resources not supported by gcloud beta orchestration-pipelines resource-types list. - Managing general cloud infrastructure (VMs, networks, Kubernetes, IAM policies), which are better suited for Terraform. - Infrastructure spans multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure, etc.). - Already uses Terraform for the target resources.

gcp-spark

Develops and executes Spark code on Dataproc Clusters and Serverless. Reads and writes data using BigLake Iceberg catalogs, BigQuery and Spanner. Debugs execution failures. Use when: - Writing Spark ETL pipelines on GCP. - Training or running inference with ML models with spark on GCP. - Managing Spark clusters, jobs, batches, and interactive sessions. Don't use when: - Writing generic Python scripts that don't use Spark. - Performing simple SQL queries that can be done directly in BigQuery.

gcs-security-assessment

Assesses security posture, evaluates risks, and checks SAIF compliance for Google Cloud Storage buckets or projects. Use when the user requests security scans, vulnerability checks, or SAIF assessments. Don't use when: The user is asking about non-GCS resources (Compute Engine, GKE, etc.), investigating a live production outage, or asking general security questions not tied to a specific project or bucket.

google-cloud-storage-basics

Stores, retrieves, and manages data as objects in Cloud Storage (Google Cloud Storage, or GCS) buckets. Use when you need to interact with Cloud Storage — create or configure buckets, upload, download, stream, or transfer data, organize objects with folders, generate signed URLs, control access (IAM, ACLs, public access prevention), set storage classes and tiering (Standard, Nearline, Coldline, Archive), manage cost and lifecycle, protect data (versioning, encryption/CMEK, retention and Bucket Lock, object holds, soft delete), host static websites, trigger Pub/Sub notifications on object changes, mount buckets as a file system (gcsfuse), or optimize storage performance at any scale. Covers the gcloud storage / gsutil CLI, JSON and XML APIs, client libraries, Terraform, and Cloud Storage MCP servers. Don't use for block storage (Persistent Disk), data warehousing/analytics (BigQuery), or databases (Cloud SQL, Spanner, Bigtable, Firestore).

managing-python-dependencies

Ensures proper Python dependency management, avoiding global pip install and adhering to project-specific tooling. Use this skill if any of the following are true: 1. Attempting to run pip install {package_name}. 2. Python packages or dependencies need to be added or modified. 3. Initiating a new Python project. 4. Creating a new notebook, even if just using BigQuery cells. 5. Generating Python code that includes import statements for third-party libraries. 6. Before executing Python scripts via the terminal to ensure the correct virtual environment is active.

ml-best-practices

CRITICAL RULE: You MUST use this skill whenever the task involves any machine learning tasks or data analysis. Use this skill if the user's prompt or requirements mention any of the following: * Clustering * Classification * Regression * Time series forecasting * Statistical testing * Model comparison * ML * Data analysis SQL/BigQuery ML HANDOFF: If the user requires a SQL solution, use this skill to dictate the ANALYSIS STEPS (e.g., markdown analysis cells, visualization logic), but defer to bigquery for all SQL syntax.

notebook-guidance

This skill guides the use of Jupyter notebooks for data analysis, exploration, and visualization, particularly with BigQuery. It outlines best practices for notebook execution and validation (supporting both cell-by-cell execution and full notebook generation depending on tool availability), library installation, and structuring notebooks for clarity. It also covers specific rules for data cleaning, plotting, and integrating with BigQuery SQL and machine learning workflows. Relevant when any of the following conditions are true: 1. The user request involves a data analysis, data exploration, data visualization, or data insights task that requires multiple steps, queries, or visualizations to answer. 2. The user explicitly requests a notebook (.ipynb). 3. You are creating, editing, or executing cells in a Jupyter notebook. 4. You need to query BigQuery from within a notebook. DO NOT use the Python BigQuery client library; instead, you MUST use the %%bqsql magics explained in this skill.