What problem does it solve?
Centralizes expert guidance to create, validate, and harden Starlake YAML configuration so teams avoid misconfigured pipelines, schema drift, and environment leakage.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Schema validation & best practices: Maps configuration patterns to the official Starlake JSON Schema and explains required properties, variable substitution, and common pitfalls.
- Environment & storage patterns: Documents environment variable conventions, area layouts (incoming/pending/archive), and storage connector examples for DuckDB, BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, and S3.
- Operational examples & troubleshooting: Provides production-ready application and table examples, write-strategy guidance (SCD2, UPSERT, OVERWRITE_BY_PARTITION), expectations for data quality, and CLI/IDE validation tips.
Quick Start
Ask the skill to validate metadata/application.sl.yml against the Starlake JSON Schema and report missing or invalid fields.