Official agent skill

Dagster Expert

by dagster-io in dagster-io/skills

A skill your agent uses for any task involving Dagster, the dg CLI, assets, materialization, components, data tools or data pipelines, matching the situations the Dagster skill handles.

OfficialApache-2.0Auto-check passedData & Analytics

Install Dagster Expert

skills CLI
$ npx skills add dagster-io/skills --skill dagster-expert -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install dagster-io/skills dagster-expert --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dagster-io/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/dagster-expert/skills/dagster-expert .claude/skills/dagster-expert && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
dagster-expert
GitHub stars
211
Token cost
~321 tokens
SKILL.md length
130 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

A skill your agent uses for any task involving Dagster, the dg CLI, assets, materialization, components, data tools or data pipelines, matching the situations the Dagster skill handles.

  • Any task involving Dagster
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Materialization
  • Matching the situations the Dagster skill handles

What it does

Dagster Expert is an agent skill from dagster-io/skills, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Use for any task involving Dagster, the dg CLI, assets, materialization, components, data tools or data pipelines, matching the situations the Dagster skill handles. This is the deprecated dagster-expert plugin. It carries no Dagster guidance and exists only to tell the user to move to the dagster plugin.

Its SKILL.md is about 320 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Data & Analytics, covering Data pipelines and ETL. It works with Dagster. The repository describes itself as: A collection of AI skills for working with Dagster. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Any task involving Dagster
  • Materialization
  • Matching the situations the Dagster skill handles

Example prompts

  • “/dagster-expert”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 8547cac. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Dagster Expert loads about 321 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 80 tokens; SKILL.md has 130 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~80
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~321

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from dagster-io/skills at commit 8547cac, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© dagster-io). 130 words, ~321 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/dagster-expert/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
dagster-expert
description
Use for any task involving Dagster, the dg CLI, assets, materialization, components, data tools or data pipelines, matching the situations the Dagster skill handles. This is the deprecated dagster-expert plugin. It carries no Dagster guidance and exists only to tell the user to move to the dagster plugin.

This plugin has been replaced

The user is running the deprecated dagster-expert plugin. It no longer carries the Dagster skill — that now ships in the dagster plugin.

Do not answer the user's Dagster question from memory. Tell them to run:

/plugin install dagster@dagster

/plugin uninstall dagster-expert

if they are in a Claude code session. If they are in a Cursor session, instruct them to uninstall the current Dagster plugin and re-install it.

Both commands matter. Installing dagster without uninstalling dagster-expert leaves two plugins providing a skill named dagster-expert, and this deprecated one may be chosen instead of the real one. If the user reaches this notice after already installing dagster, that is what has happened — have them uninstall dagster-expert and retry.

Nothing else changes: the skill keeps the name dagster-expert and is still invoked as /dagster-expert.

© dagster-io, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/dagster-expert/skills/dagster-expert of dagster-io/skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 8547cac

Compare with similar skills

Dagster Expert next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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AI Data Engineeringancoleman/ai-design-components525—~3.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
AI Pipeline Orchestrationsickn33/agentic-awesome-skills47k1 repos~2.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Engineering Data Pipelinestelagod/code-abyss244—~236Automated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Dagster Expert

What does Dagster Expert do?

A skill your agent uses for any task involving Dagster, the dg CLI, assets, materialization, components, data tools or data pipelines, matching the situations the Dagster skill handles. Dagster Expert is an agent skill from dagster-io/skills, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Use for any task involving Dagster, the dg CLI, assets, materialization, components, data tools or data pipelines, matching the situations the Dagster skill handles.

When should I use Dagster Expert?

Dagster Expert fits situations like: any task involving Dagster; materialization; matching the situations the Dagster skill handles.

How do I install Dagster Expert in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add dagster-io/skills --skill dagster-expert -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/dagster-expert/skills/dagster-expert in dagster-io/skills) into .claude/skills/dagster-expert in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Dagster Expert in Codex?

Run `npx skills add dagster-io/skills --skill dagster-expert -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/dagster-expert/skills/dagster-expert in dagster-io/skills) into .agents/skills/dagster-expert in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Dagster Expert in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add dagster-io/skills --skill dagster-expert -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/dagster-expert, .gemini/skills/dagster-expert, .github/skills/dagster-expert and .opencode/skills/dagster-expert in your project.

What does Dagster Expert need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Dagster Expert is instructions for the agent only.

Does Dagster Expert access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Dagster Expert safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Dagster Expert use?

Dagster Expert is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Dagster Expert use?

About 321 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Dagster Expert?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Dagster Expert: Migrate To Rivers (ion-elgreco/rivers, 102 stars), Migrating Dagster To Airflow (astronomer/agents, 451 stars), AI Data Engineering (ancoleman/ai-design-components, 525 stars) and AI Pipeline Orchestration (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Dagster Expert?

dagster-io (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in dagster-io/skills, which has 211 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: dagster-io/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.