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Introducing Estuary Agent Skills: Build Data Pipelines with AI

TUTORIALS7/15/2026

Estuary Agent Skills give your AI coding assistant the Estuary-specific context it needs to build and operate real-time data pipelines. Ask in plain English, capture my Postgres database into Snowflake, load these collections into BigQuery, or why is this connector failing, and your assistant knows the workflow.

How do you build a data pipeline with an AI assistant? Instead of bouncing between docs, CLI commands, connector setup, and warehouse settings, Estuary Agent Skills follow the open SKILL.md pattern, so your assistant knows which flowctl commands to run, what specs to generate, and which checks to perform before publishing. You stay in control: you review the specs, approve the commands, and decide what credentials exist and what gets published. The skills are open source, so you can inspect everything.

⏱️ Chapters
0:00 The glue-work problem
0:29 Introducing Agent Skills
0:38 Pipelines in plain English
0:54 What's included
1:20 Demo: Postgres to Snowflake
1:44 You stay in control
2:34 Works with your AI tools
2:52 Get started

πŸ”‘ In the first release
- Source skills: Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, SQL Server
- Materialization skills: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, Postgres
- Operational skills: task health, catalog status, publication history, and more

πŸ”— Get the skills on GitHub: https://github.com/estuary/agent-skills
πŸ“– Setup guide: https://docs.estuary.dev/guides/agent-skills/
πŸ’‘ Learn more: https://estuary.dev/capabilities/agent-skills/
πŸš€ Start free: https://dashboard.estuary.dev/register

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