Official agent skill

Databricks App Design

by databricks in databricks/databricks-agent-skills

Design the UX of custom-code Databricks Apps (AppKit/React) data screens — KPI/overview pages, reports, charts, tables, and Genie/chat data assistants — mapped to concrete AppKit components.

OfficialCustom licenceAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Databricks App Design

skills CLI
$ npx skills add databricks/databricks-agent-skills --skill databricks-app-design -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install databricks/databricks-agent-skills databricks-app-design --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/databricks/databricks-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/databricks-app-design .claude/skills/databricks-app-design && 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
databricks-app-design
GitHub stars
345
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
696 words
Files
8 (incl. references, assets)
Skills in repo
32
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Design the UX of custom-code Databricks Apps (AppKit/React) data screens — KPI/overview pages, reports, charts, tables, and Genie/chat data assistants — mapped to concrete AppKit components.

  • Works in 7 steps: Frame — audience, the decision/question,… → Genre — pick the closest from… → Compose — choose content + composition… → …
  • Reviewing the UI of an AppKit/React app that displays data
  • SKILL.md covers When to use / when NOT, Workflow, Required states & data realism… and AI / Genie surfaces (the "AI"…, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Databricks App Design is an agent skill from databricks/databricks-agent-skills, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Design the UX of custom-code Databricks Apps (AppKit/React) data screens — KPI/overview pages, reports, charts, tables, and Genie/chat data assistants — mapped to concrete AppKit components. Use when BUILDING or reviewing the UI of an AppKit/React app that displays data or answers data questions: choosing genre, layout, charts, KPIs, semantic color, required states (loading/empty/error), IBCS notation, and AI-result trust (showing generated SQL/sources for Genie/chat). A plain "create a dashboard" request means a…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 10 other files, including reference files and assets (for example `agents/openai.yaml`, `references/appkit-cheatsheet.md` and `references/dashboard-patterns.md`).

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering OKRs and executive reporting and Project scaffolding. It works with Databricks, macOS, React and SQL. The repository describes itself as: Databricks AI Tools: skills and plugins for building on Databricks with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot, and other AI coding agents.

When your agent uses it

  • Reviewing the UI of an AppKit/React app that displays data
  • Answers data questions: choosing genre
  • Required states (loading/empty/error)
  • AI-result trust (showing generated SQL/sources for Genie/chat)

Example prompts

  • “create a dashboard”
  • “/databricks-app-design”

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Frame — audience, the decision/question, refresh cadence, device, primary task. One sentence.
  2. Genre — pick the closest from dashboard-patterns.md (static / analytic / magazine / infographic / repository / embedded mini). State it.
  3. Compose — choose content + composition patterns (data abstraction, meta-info, layout, interaction, color). Make the tradeoff explicit…
  4. Apply notation — run the relevant ibcs-notation.md rules: message-in-title, scenario marks (actual/PY/plan/forecast), honest scales…
  5. Bind to components — map every element to a primitive that's actually exported from @databricks/appkit / @databricks/appkit-ui (see…
  6. Cover the states — every data view must handle loading / empty / error / partial (see checklist).
  7. Review — run the checklists in both reference files; lead critiques with the highest-impact comprehension or integrity issue, citing the…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit f4fcec5. 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 (its code samples are markdown).

    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

Databricks App Design loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 217 tokens; SKILL.md has 696 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~217
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~6k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 696 words (~1,749 tokens).

“Make Databricks data + AI apps that communicate clearly and compile to real AppKit code. This skill merges two bodies of knowledge and binds them to implementation:”

— opening of SKILL.md by databricks, Custom licence
name
databricks-app-design
parent
databricks-apps
metadata.version
0.1.0

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 7 other files (references, assets) in skills/databricks-app-design of databricks/databricks-agent-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • assets/databricks.png
  • assets/databricks.svg
  • references/appkit-cheatsheet.md
  • references/dashboard-patterns.md
  • references/genie-ai-trust.md
  • references/ibcs-notation.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit f4fcec5

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Questions about Databricks App Design

What does Databricks App Design do?

Design the UX of custom-code Databricks Apps (AppKit/React) data screens — KPI/overview pages, reports, charts, tables, and Genie/chat data assistants — mapped to concrete AppKit components. Databricks App Design is an agent skill from databricks/databricks-agent-skills, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Design the UX of custom-code Databricks Apps (AppKit/React) data screens — KPI/overview pages, reports, charts, tables, and Genie/chat data assistants — mapped to concrete AppKit components.

When should I use Databricks App Design?

Databricks App Design fits situations like: reviewing the UI of an AppKit/React app that displays data; answers data questions: choosing genre; required states (loading/empty/error); AI-result trust (showing generated SQL/sources for Genie/chat).

How do I install Databricks App Design in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add databricks/databricks-agent-skills --skill databricks-app-design -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/databricks-app-design in databricks/databricks-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/databricks-app-design in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Databricks App Design in Codex?

Run `npx skills add databricks/databricks-agent-skills --skill databricks-app-design -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/databricks-app-design in databricks/databricks-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/databricks-app-design in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Databricks App Design 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 databricks/databricks-agent-skills --skill databricks-app-design -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/databricks-app-design, .gemini/skills/databricks-app-design, .github/skills/databricks-app-design and .opencode/skills/databricks-app-design in your project.

What does Databricks App Design need to run?

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

Does Databricks App Design 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 Databricks App Design 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 Databricks App Design use?

Databricks App Design has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Databricks App Design use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 4.2k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Databricks App Design?

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Who maintains Databricks App Design?

databricks (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in databricks/databricks-agent-skills, which has 345 GitHub stars. The repository holds 32 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

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