Use Fabio with coding agents

Fabio is designed for agents that must plan, execute, verify, and recover without interactive prompts.

Install the skills

npx skills add https://github.com/iemejia/fabio

The root skill covers authentication, global flags, output envelopes, and safety. Focused skills cover lakehouse, data engineering, BI, real-time intelligence, CI/CD, administration, and other workloads without filling the agent context with unrelated commands.

Discover commands programmatically

Return the complete machine-readable command schema:

fabio context agent

Limit discovery to one group:

fabio context agent --group lakehouse

Find relevant authored guidance:

fabio context find "deploy a notebook between environments"

Route a problem to a solution

When the task is a business outcome rather than a specific item, start from the problem-first architect persona, which maps it to an architecture blueprint (the item set, deployment order, and key decisions):

fabio context persona data-solution-architect   # routes an outcome to a blueprint
fabio context blueprint medallion                # item set + phases + decisions for a solution shape

Check what an operation supports on an item type before attempting it (creatable, definition round-trip, deploy strategy) — derived at runtime, never a stale registry:

fabio context item-capabilities            # full per-item-type matrix
fabio context item-capabilities Lakehouse  # one type

Give agents tenant context

Start with a bounded inventory:

fabio context tenant --summary-only

Resolve a display name without constructing a full graph:

fabio context tenant --resolve "Lakehouse:Sales"

Preserve safety boundaries

• Keep JSON output enabled so the agent can inspect data, count, error, and safety metadata.
• Use --dry-run before mutations when supported.
• Do not automatically add a flag classified as safety_bypass; ask for human approval.
• Verify semantic corrections with the read-only command in verifyAfter.
• Bound list operations with --limit, or opt into all pages with --all.

Compose output

Use JMESPath projections to reduce tokens:

fabio workspace list --query "[].{id:id,name:displayName}"

Use --quiet when an agent only needs the exit status.