upgrading-dbt-core
upgrading-dbt-core is an agent skill published by dbt-labs. It lives in the dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills repository, which has 746 GitHub stars and is licensed under Apache-2.0; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
Upgrades a dbt-core project to the latest version, supporting migrations from 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, or 1.7 to 1.12, applying necessary changes. Requires starting_version and adapter_type as inputs.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills
What it connects to
Unverified means a mention in the skill’s own description, not a citation. A wrong claim here costs nothing to correct and nothing to trust yet.
Maintenance
Use when a user wants to upgrade, update, or migrate a dbt-core project to the latest version — e.g. "upgrade my dbt project," "migrate this off dbt-core 1.5," "get this project running on the latest dbt," "bump the dbt-core version." Upgrades a dbt-core v1 project (on 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, or 1.7) all the way to 1.12, applying the required breaking, behavior, and deprecated changes from a data-driven issue corpus. Inputs — starting_version (the project's current dbt-core minor, one of 1.3/1.4/1.5/1.6/1.7) and adapter_type (snowflake/redshift/bigquery/databricks/spark); both are normally supplied by the caller (e.g. the dbt VS Code extension), with fallbacks described in the skill.
Common questions about upgrading-dbt-core
- What does upgrading-dbt-core do?
- Upgrades a dbt-core project to the latest version, supporting migrations from 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, or 1.7 to 1.12, applying necessary changes. Requires starting_version and adapter_type as inputs.
- How do I install upgrading-dbt-core?
- Run npx skills add dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Which AI clients can use upgrading-dbt-core?
- Its own description mentions VS Code. That is a mention in its description, not a test we ran.
- Who publishes upgrading-dbt-core?
- dbt-labs.
- Is upgrading-dbt-core maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 746 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-22. The repository declares the Apache-2.0 licence.