dbt-testing SKILL.md skillA
dbt-testing from testland/qa is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- testland/qa
- Path
plugins/qa-data-quality/skills/dbt-testing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260706.4e1409c, committed Jul 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 7, 2026
- Size
- 7,734 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11
- License
- MIT
Authors and runs dbt data tests (generic, singular, and custom-macro), parses test failure output from run_results.json, and gates dbt build on test results. Use when the user works with a dbt project, asks about model assertions, or needs CI gates on a data pipeline.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# dbt-testing
## Overview
dbt distinguishes **data tests** (assertions on rows, e.g. unique / not_null)
from **unit tests** (logic tests on transformations); this skill targets
data tests. The YAML key was renamed from `tests:` to `data_tests:` to
disambiguate; `tests:` remains a back-compat alias but you cannot have both
on the same resource at the same time
([data-tests][1]).
[1]: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/build/data-tests
## When to use
- The repo contains a `dbt_project.yml` or a `models/` directory with `.sql`
files referencing `{{ ref(...) }}` / `{{ source(...) }}`.
- The user asks about generic tests (`unique`, `not_null`, `accepted_values`,
`relationships`) - the four built-in generics shipped with dbt
([data-tests][1]).
- The user mentions dbt build failures, schema drift, or wants assertions
on data flowing through models.
- A CI workflow needs a quality gate that fails the pipeline when a model
ships bad data.
## Authoring tests
### Generic tests in `schema.yml`
Use `data_tests:` (canonical) - `tests:` is the legacy alias and cannot
coexist with `data_tests:` on the same resource ([data-tests][1]).
```yaml
version: 2
models:
- name: orders
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How to install
mdr add testland/qa/dbt-testing@sha256:feb5e3b884813bd7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260706.4e1409c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 7, 2026 and Jul 6, 2026, about one every 15 days.
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| git:20260706.4e1409c latest | 2026-07-06 | 4e1409c | 7,734 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260603.21eda0e | 2026-06-03 | 21eda0e | 7,751 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260602.ce520f0 | 2026-06-02 | ce520f0 | 7,765 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260526.aa6517c | 2026-05-26 | aa6517c | 7,789 B | A | view · diff |
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Source
testland/qa · 11 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
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