dbt-transformation-adapterlisted
Install: claude install-skill Kemetra/Seshat-BI
# dbt-transformation-adapter
- **Authority category (F024):** Execution Adapter / `DB-connected` (NOT publish-capable).
- **Roadmap feature:** F029 **On-disk spec:** `specs/023-dbt-transformation-adapter`.
dbt is the build ENGINE: it compiles SQL, materializes models, and runs tests. Seshat BI
is the brain: it owns the approved source-map, the metric contracts, and the readiness
spine, and routes every judgment call to a named human. This skill is how the agent runs
dbt without letting it become the brain. You (the agent reading this) ARE the runtime; this
skill is procedure, not an engine -- there is no daemon, no scheduler, no auto-approver.
See `docs/decisions/0009-dbt-is-transformation-adapter.md` and
`templates/dbt-adapter-contract.md`.
> ACTIVATED: feature 133 added the governed runtime under `dbt/`, the pinned
> `dbt-core==1.12.0` + `dbt-postgres==1.10.2` extra, and the `seshat dbt`
> command family. Use that wrapper only; raw dbt commands bypass the accepted-plan,
> selector, shadow-schema, redaction, lock, and evidence contracts.
## Scope boundary (read first)
Invoke-and-record only. This skill runs dbt behind the gate and records its findings as
evidence; it does NOT define source mapping, metric contracts, or semantic logic, does NOT
publish Power BI, and does NOT move a readiness stage to `pass`. Three non-negotiables:
This adapter is not the owner of generic dbt competence. Model-authoring advice, generic
test design, command syntax, documentation lookup,