Altimate Data Engineering Skills

This is a collection of workflow skills that teach Claude how analytics engineers actually work with dbt and Snowflake, rather than just generating code snippets. You get 7 dbt skills covering model creation through refactoring, 3 Snowflake optimization skills, and a delegation skill that hands off complex tasks to the altimate-code CLI. The approach is methodical: skills enforce reading existing patterns before writing, running full builds instead of just compiles, and stopping after three failed attempts to reassess. It scored 53% on ADE-bench with real-world dbt tasks and shows a 3x improvement on model creation. If you're tired of Claude writing dbt models that ignore your project conventions or suggesting query optimizations without understanding execution profiles, this gives it actual engineering discipline.

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last updated: Jul 14, 2026

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$ npx -y skills add aradotso/data-skills --skill altimate-data-engineering-skills --agent claude-code

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Altimate Data Engineering Skills

Skill by ara.so — Data Skills collection.

Altimate Data Engineering Skills is a collection of Claude Code skills that encode the workflows and best practices of experienced analytics engineers. These skills transform Claude from a code generator into a capable data engineering assistant by teaching how to approach tasks, not just what syntax to use.

The project demonstrates 53% accuracy on ADE-bench (43 real-world dbt tasks), 3x improvement on model creation tasks, and 84% pass rate on Snowflake query optimization.

What This Project Does

Data Engineering Skills provides:

7 dbt skills: Model creation, debugging, testing, documentation, migration, refactoring, incremental models
3 Snowflake skills: Cost analysis, query optimization by ID, query optimization by text
1 delegation skill: Hand off complex tasks to altimate-code CLI tool
Workflow automation: Skills trigger automatically based on user intent
Best practices: Encoded patterns from experienced analytics engineers

Skills are markdown files with YAML frontmatter that define trigger conditions and step-by-step workflows.

SKILL.md on GitHub