Looker’s foundation rests upon a robust semantic model, LookML, which ensures data consistency and accuracy across the entire organization, acting as a singular source of truth. This eliminates data silos, allowing everyone, from analysts to business users, to work with a unified view of key metrics. One beauty of Looker also lies in its adaptability, which allows organizations to centralize their data analysis, regardless where their data resides.
To accelerate how you interact with your data, we are excited to announce the release of Looker Skills on GitHub. This open-source repository provides a set of agentic skills designed to bridge the gap between your preferred AI agents and the Looker platform. By integrating these skills into environments like Antigravity, Claude Code, or Codex, you can now develop LookML using simple, natural language prompts.
The initial release of Looker Skills is designed to instruct your agent in LookML development conventions and best practices. Coupled with the VS Code extension and the Looker MCP Server, this enables high quality agentic development of LookML. For developers and data engineers, this means faster development cycles and the ability to automate routine maintenance tasks through conversational interaction.
Skills are widely supported across the industry and are designed to work efficiently. Agents load a brief summary of the skill into context, which limits token usage and cost, with the remainder of the skill only loaded when the agent determines the skill is needed. A skill is typically only loaded into the context of a sub-agent spawned to perform a particular task. When completed, the main agent continues operating without having the skill take up space in context.
With this release, we invite you to explore the repository, contribute to its growth, and discover how these new agent skills can help you unlock insights faster than ever. Over time, we plan to release additional skills that will help query data, build dashboards, and even perform administrative tasks like managing user and group permissions.
Looker’s combination of a strong semantic foundation, extensive integration capabilities, and new innovations like Looker Skills continues to make it the premier business intelligence solution for any organization striving to be truly data-driven. Looker fosters collaboration, ensures data accuracy, and empowers users across all levels to unlock valuable insights.
Check out the project here: https://github.com/looker-open-source/looker-skills.