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Quickstart

Get Starlake Skills running in under 5 minutes.

Prerequisites​

  • Claude Code installed and configured
  • A Starlake project (or use bootstrap to create one)

Step 1: Install the Plugin​

Available across all your projects:

git clone https://github.com/starlake-ai/starlake-skills.git ~/.claude/skills/starlake-skills

Project-Local Installation​

Available only in the current project:

git clone https://github.com/starlake-ai/starlake-skills.git .claude/skills/starlake-skills

From Claude Code Marketplace​

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claude plugin install starlake-skills

Step 2: Verify Installation​

Open Claude Code and ask:

You: What Starlake skills are available?

Claude will list all 48 available skills organized by category.

Step 3: Try Your First Skill​

Bootstrap a new project​

You: /bootstrap a new Starlake project targeting DuckDB

Claude will generate a complete project structure with:

  • metadata/application.sl.yml — Global configuration
  • metadata/types/default.sl.yml — Type definitions
  • metadata/env.sl.yml — Environment variables
  • Sample domain and table configurations

Load data​

You: /load Help me configure loading CSV files into a "customers" domain
     with columns: id, name, email, created_at

Claude will create the domain config and table schema YAML files with appropriate types, write strategy, and sink configuration.

Generate DAGs​

You: /dag-generate Create Airflow DAGs for all my domains with a daily schedule

Claude will generate Python DAG files for Apache Airflow based on your pipeline configuration.

Step 4: Explore More​

Try these common workflows:

TaskCommand
Validate project/validate
Column lineage/col-lineage
Extract schema from DB/extract-schema
Configure connections/connection
Data quality checks/expectations
Security policies/secure

Updating​

Pull the latest skills:

cd ~/.claude/skills/starlake-skills && git pull

Next Steps​

  • Setup — Advanced installation options and configuration
  • Skills Catalog — Full reference for all 48 skills
  • Configuration — Connection and warehouse setup