What are Unity Catalog Skills

Unity Catalog Skills give you a central location to discover, publish, and govern agent skills across your organization. There are no copies to keep in sync, and anyone with access can discover what already exists instead of asking around.

On Databricks, a skill is a first-class Unity Catalog securable (catalog.schema.skill), so you share it with people or groups using the same permissions, tags, and audit that protect your tables.

Unity Catalog Skills follow the SKILL.md specification format. Skills teach an agent how to do one task well, such as analyzing a table, following a runbook, or applying your team's SQL conventions.

• • Discover and use Unity Catalog Skills
  • Connect your coding agent to Databricks, then discover and use governed skills your team published.
• • Create and share Unity Catalog Skills
  • Develop a skill locally, publish it to Unity Catalog, and share it so any teammate's agent can use it.
• • Govern skills
  • Enable skills, set up a governed schema, and grant the privileges that control who can create, read, and share them.