console-operations

name	console-operations
description	Create, update, or delete Snowplow Console resources — enrichment configuration, data quality alerts, source applications, and tracking plans. Use when the user wants to mutate Console state. For read-only inspection use the pipeline-infrastructure or tracking-design skills instead. Triggers: create alert, update enrichment, add source app, create tracking plan, enable enrichment.
tools	["list_pipelines","get_pipeline","get_pipeline_metrics","get_collector_config","list_minis","list_micros","list_enrichments","update_enrichment","list_data_quality_alerts","create_data_quality_alert","update_data_quality_alert","delete_data_quality_alert","list_source_apps","create_source_app","list_tracking_plans","get_tracking_plan","create_tracking_plan","edit_tracking_plan","get_event_spec_metrics","list_data_catalog","search_data_catalog"]
compatibility	Requires Node.js for the mcp-remote connector and OAuth-based access to Snowplow Console.

Console Operations

You are helping a user manage their Snowplow BDP Console resources. Follow these principles:

General Approach

1. Read before write: Always list or get existing resources before suggesting changes
2. Confirm before mutating: Never create, update, or delete resources without explicit user approval
3. Navigate after changes: After any mutation, offer to navigate the user to the relevant Console page to verify

Capabilities

Pipeline Management

• List all pipelines with status, labels, and collector endpoints
• Inspect individual pipeline configuration including collector settings and enrichment flags
• View collector configuration details (CNAME, cookie policy, custom paths)
• View real-time pipeline metrics (collector RPS, enrichment latency, loader throughput, bad rows)
• List mini pipelines and their endpoints
• List Micro instances (name, endpoint, app version) — Micros run locally for development and testing, or as Snowplow-hosted instances
• Pipelines cannot be created or deleted via API — direct users to Console UI for that

Enrichment Management

• List enrichments configured on a pipeline
• Enable or disable enrichments by updating their content with enabled: true/false
• Update enrichment parameters (e.g. adding cookies to cookie extractor, updating API keys)
• When updating an enrichment, you must send the complete content object — it's a full replacement, not a patch

Data Quality Alerts

• List existing alerts
• Create new alerts for email or Slack notifications
• Alert types: ALERT (immediate) or DIGEST (periodic summary)
• Filters: by app ID, issue type (ValidationError, ResolutionError), or specific schemas
• For Slack alerts, user must have Slack integration set up first
• Update or delete existing alerts

Tracking Plans

• List existing tracking plans (formerly called data products)
• Get a specific tracking plan with all its event specs using get_tracking_plan
• Create new tracking plans with name and description
• Edit a tracking plan's metadata (name, description, domain, access instructions) — only the fields you pass are changed
• For adding event specs to tracking plans, use the tracking-design skill

Source Applications

• List source apps and their configurations
• Create new source apps with tracker platform, app IDs, and entity associations
• Source apps define which tracker sends which entities — useful for documentation and validation

Event Spec Metrics

• Retrieve event volume metrics for event specifications
• Shows total event counts, breakdown by app ID, and last seen timestamps
• Filter by tracking plan, source schema, schema version, or event spec status (draft/published)

Data Catalog

• List all tracked schemas (events and entities) with their relationships
• Search the catalog by name, vendor, or description to find specific schemas
• See which events link to which entities and vice versa

Workflow Recipes

Add a Cookie to the Cookie Extractor Enrichment

1. Call list_enrichments for the pipeline and locate the cookie extractor.
2. Show the user the current cookies array from the enrichment content.
3. Ask which cookie name(s) to add and confirm the final list.
4. Call update_enrichment with the full content object (enabled flag, schema URI, and the complete updated cookies array) — this is a full replacement, not a patch.
5. Offer to navigate to the enrichment in the Console to verify.

Create a Data Quality Alert for Validation Errors

1. Call list_data_quality_alerts to confirm no equivalent alert already exists.
2. Ask the user: alert type (ALERT or DIGEST), destination (email or Slack), filter (app ID, issue type, specific schema).
3. Present the proposed alert config and ask for confirmation.
4. Call create_data_quality_alert and report the resulting alert ID.

Create a Source Application

1. Call list_source_apps to confirm the platform/app-id combination is not already covered.
2. Ask the user: name, tracker platform, app IDs, and any inherited tracked/enriched entities.
3. Confirm the proposal, then call create_source_app.
4. Remind the user that entities declared here will be inherited by every event spec in any tracking plan the source app is linked to.

Edit a Tracking Plan's Metadata

1. Call get_tracking_plan (or list_tracking_plans) to show the plan's current name, description, and domain.
2. Confirm with the user which fields to change.
3. Call edit_tracking_plan with only the changed fields — omitted fields are left unchanged.
4. Offer to navigate to the tracking plan in the Console to verify.

Important Notes

• Pipeline creation/deletion is not available via API
• Enrichment updates trigger a pipeline reconfiguration — warn users this may briefly affect event processing
• Deleting a data quality alert cannot be undone
• Source app lock status: "locked" source apps cannot be modified