| name | databricks-genie-agents |
| description | Create, manage, and query Databricks Genie Agents — curated, per-data natural-language agents (formerly Genie Spaces): build, export/import, migrate across workspaces, and ask questions of a *specific* Agent via the Conversation API. For general data questions or finding data across your workspace, use databricks-data-discovery (Genie One) instead. |
| compatibility | Requires databricks CLI (>= v1.0.0) |
| metadata | {"version":"0.1.0"} |
Databricks Genie Agents
Create, manage, and query Genie Agents (formerly Genie Spaces) - natural language interfaces for SQL-based data exploration.
Overview
Genie Agents allow users to ask natural language questions about structured data in Unity Catalog. The system translates questions into SQL queries, executes them on a SQL warehouse, and presents results conversationally.
A Genie Agent is a curated agent scoped to specific data — its tables, sample questions, and instructions are authored for a particular business area. This is distinct from Genie One / the general "ask Genie" data-discovery path (see the databricks-data-discovery skill), which answers questions across your data without a curated, per-scope agent.
Genie Agent Lifecycle
| Phase | Reference | Load when | Typical CLI |
|---|
| Design + Create | create-genie-agent.md | Always load before creating or updating. Gather requirements, profile data, design surfaces, get approval — before any CLI | discover-schema → create-space / update-space |
| Query / validate | query-genie-agent.md | Querying via Conversation API or Agent mode API; authoring SQL for Metric View sources | start-conversation / get-message |
| Diagnose | diagnose-genie-agent.md | Agent gives wrong/empty answers — gather space ID + failing question + observed behavior first | get-space --include-serialized-space; system.query.history |
| Optimize | optimize-genie-agent.md | Benchmark-driven quality tuning — gather space ID + optimization goal + benchmark target first | genie-create-eval-run; update-space |
| Export / migrate | genie-agent-cicd.md | Export, import, cross-workspace migration, batch migration, DABs/CI-CD | get-space → remap → create-space |
| — | serialized-space.md | Constructing or debugging serialized_space payloads — field schemas, constraints, Python helper | — |
| — | uc-persistence.md | Setting up UC Delta tables for multi-pass optimization history — CREATE TABLE DDL only | — |
Typical flow: create → query/validate → diagnose → optimize.
Prerequisites
- Tables in Unity Catalog — bronze/silver/gold tables with the data
- SQL Warehouse — a warehouse to execute queries (auto-detected if not specified)
Related Skills
