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To document dbt models with business context, you add or update model-level and column descriptions directly in your schema.yml files. This improves the discoverability and maintainability of your analytics assets across teams.

Yes, you can create shared doc blocks to define reusable descriptions for columns and models. This ensures definition consistency across multiple dbt models and streamlines documentation governance in your data stack.

The best way to document dbt models for discoverability is to populate schema.yml files with detailed business context and create reusable doc blocks. Aligning with documentation standards ensures consistent analytics asset governance across projects.

You apply this dbt documentation process by adding or updating descriptions within your schema.yml files. Having a dbt project with models and schema configurations is required before you can populate these business context definitions.

Documenting dbt schema.yml files with business context facilitates documentation, governance, and discovery across multi-project data stacks. Adding model and column descriptions ensures analytics assets remain maintainable and discoverable for all teams.

When using doc blocks to standardize dbt column descriptions, you must ensure they align with documentation-standards and are correctly referenced in schema.yml. Failure to properly link reusable definitions can result in missing or broken dbt documentation.