dbt-meta CLI tool for AI agents for instant metadata extraction from dbt artifacts

Hello team!

Over the past few months, I’ve been getting pretty tired of Claude Code constantly getting lost when working with dbt :flashlight:

— Agent confuses schemas and tables (prod vs dev, alias vs filename)

— Hallucinates non-existent columns and wrong data types

— Doesn’t know dependencies between models

— Spends forever scanning .sql files and BigQuery for metadata

I have ~1000 models, custom naming patterns, aliases, and defer workflow. So, I’ve built a solution.

dbt-meta — CLI for instant metadata extraction from dbt artifacts.

meta schema dim_customers → project.analytics.customers

meta columns -j orders → [{“name”: “order_id”, “type”: “INT64”}, …]

meta parents -a model → all upstream dependencies

and many other commands…

:high_voltage: Most commands ~250ms, not 5-10 tool calls at 2-3 seconds each

:package: pip install dbt-meta

:link: GitHub - Filianin/dbt-meta: AI-first CLI for dbt metadata extraction

Give it a try — feedback welcome!