AI skills for Dagster

Dagster maintains an AI skill that gives coding agents better context and patterns for building Dagster projects. With this skill installed, your agent can help you create robust data pipelines according to Dagster best practices.

About Dagster skills

A skill is a structured document that your AI coding agent loads when you invoke it. Skills tell agents what to do and how -- for example, which CLI commands to use, how to structure assets, and which patterns to follow.

Dagster maintains the dagster-expert skill in the dagster-io/skills repository. It provides expert guidance for building production-quality Dagster projects, covering dg CLI usage, asset patterns, automation strategies, and implementation workflows.

Installing Dagster skills

Claude Code

1. Install and sign in to Claude Code using the setup guide.

2. In Claude Code, add the Dagster skills from the plugin marketplace:

   /plugin marketplace add dagster-io/skills

   

3. Install the dagster-expert skill from the plugin:

   /plugin install dagster-expert@dagster

4. To confirm the skill is enabled, open the plugin list:

   /plugin

   Switch to the Installed tab and confirm you see dagster-expert: enabled. If it is disabled, enable it before continuing.

   

Cursor

Prerequisites

To install Dagster skills with Cursor, you will need npx, which comes with Node.js. To install Node.js, see the official website.

1. Install Cursor from cursor.com and sign in.

2. Use the npx command to install Dagster skills:

   npx skills add dagster-io/skills

   

3. To confirm the skill is enabled, open Cursor's Agent panel and look for dagster-expert.

   

GitHub Copilot

Prerequisites

To install Dagster skills with GitHub Copilot, you will need npx, which comes with Node.js. To install Node.js, see the official website.

1. Install the GitHub Copilot extension and the GitHub Copilot Chat extension in VS Code, then sign in with your GitHub account.

2. In the Copilot Chat input bar, switch to Agent mode using the mode selector (look for the "Ask" / "Edit" dropdown). Without Agent mode, Copilot will suggest commands for you to run manually rather than executing them itself.

3. To add the Dagster skills, run the following command in your terminal:

   npx skills add dagster-io/skills

   

4. In the Copilot Chat panel, verify that the dagster-expert skill is enabled.

   

Codex

Prerequisites

To install Dagster skills with Codex, you will need npx, which comes with Node.js. To install Node.js, see the official website.

1. Install Codex from the official setup guide and sign in.

2. To add the Dagster skills, run the following command in your terminal:

   npx skills add dagster-io/skills

   

3. In Codex settings or the skill list, confirm the dagster-expert skill is enabled.

   

Invoking Dagster skills

Claude Code

In Claude Code, invoke the skill using the namespaced format:

/dagster-expert create a new Dagster project called my-pipeline

Cursor

In Cursor, invoke the skill by name:

/dagster-expert create a new Dagster project called my-pipeline

GitHub Copilot

In GitHub Copilot, invoke the skill by name:

/dagster-expert create a new Dagster project called my-pipeline

Codex

In Codex, invoke the skill by name:

/dagster-expert create a new Dagster project called my-pipeline

Next steps

• Follow the Quickstart to scaffold your first Dagster project
• Learn more in the AI-Driven Data Engineering course on Dagster University