Agent Skills: Knowledge Catalog (formerly known as Dataplex)
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Currently in beta (pre-v1.0), and may see breaking changes until the first stable release (v1.0).
This repository provides a set of agent skills to interact with Knowledge Catalog (formerly known as Dataplex) instances. These skills can be used with various AI agents, including Antigravity, Claude Code and Codex, to discover, manage, monitor, and govern data and AI artifacts across your data platform using natural language prompts.
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Table of Contents
Why Use Knowledge Catalog Agent Skills?
- Natural Language Management: Stop wrestling with complex commands. Explore schemas and query data by describing what you want in plain English.
- Seamless Workflow: Integrates seamlessly into your AI agent's environment. No need to constantly switch contexts for common database tasks.
- Code Generation: Accelerate development by asking your agent to generate data classes and other code snippets based on your table schemas.
Prerequisites
Before you begin, ensure you have the following:
- One of these AI agents installed
- A Google Cloud project with the Dataplex API enabled.
- Ensure Application Default Credentials are available in your environment.
- IAM Permissions:
- Dataplex Data Reader (
roles/dataplex.dataReader): For reading data from the underlying assets (e.g., to run analytics queries).
- Service Usage Consumer (
roles/serviceusage.serviceUsageConsumer)
Getting Started
Configuration
Please keep these env vars handy during the installation process:
DATAPLEX_PROJECT: The GCP project ID.
Installation & Usage
To start interacting with your database, install the skills for your preferred AI agent, then launch the agent and use natural language to ask questions or perform tasks.
For the latest version, check the releases page.
Antigravity
You can use either of these two agents for Antigravity:
💡 Tip — Migrating from Gemini CLI?
If you previously installed this extension with gemini extensions install, you can convert it to an Antigravity plugin instead of reinstalling from scratch:
- On first launch of Antigravity CLI, accept the Migration Options prompt to automatically convert your installed Gemini CLI extensions to Antigravity plugins.
- Or, from your terminal, run:
agy plugin import gemini
See Migrating from Gemini CLI for details on plugins, context files (GEMINI.md / AGENTS.md), and MCP server config differences.
Antigravity 2.0 (IDE)
1. Clone the Repo:
git clone --branch 0.5.2 https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/knowledge-catalog.git
2. Install the skills:
Choose a location for the skills:
- Global (all workspaces):
~/.gemini/antigravity/skills/
- Workspace-specific:
<workspace-root>/.agents/skills/
