Wire your coding agent

Outcome

Your coding agent (Cursor, Codex, or Claude Code) can run dbt-tools workflows via first-party plugins and skills.

When to use this

Surface	Use when
CLI	Skills invoke dbt-tools on your machine—you still need the CLI available on PATH
MCP	Optional: long-lived dbt-tools-mcp for MCP tool calls over the same artifacts
Web	Optional: open investigation UI while the agent runs CLI skills

Steps

1. Follow Install agent skills (sections for Cursor, Codex, or Claude).
2. Enable dbt-tools-cli (and optionally dbt-tools-mcp) from the repo marketplace paths.
3. Use handles from the Skill catalog (for example dbt-tools-cli:check-session, dbt-tools-cli:find-resources).
4. Optionally add MCP (dbt-tools-mcp) for repeated tool calls—see Connecting clients.

Example

Ask your agent:

Use dbt-tools-cli:bind-target for ./target, then dbt-tools-cli:check-session, then dbt-tools-cli:find-resources for "orders".

Next

• CLI vs MCP vs skills
• Skill catalog
• Agents overview
• plugins README