DinoAI Agent

The DinoAI Agent provides a flexible, conversational interface for working with DinoAI. It enables you to automate analytics engineering tasks with warehouse-aware AI that writes directly to your dbt™ project files.

Why Use the DinoAI Agent?

Agent Mode transforms analytics engineering workflows by:

• Eliminating Repetitive Tasks: Automating up to 99% of rote work like column renaming, source updates, and documentation generation

• Accelerating Development: Creating models, tests, and documentation in seconds rather than hours

• Ensuring Consistency: Maintaining standards across your dbt™ project through DinoRules integration

• Reducing Context Switching: Eliminating the need to copy code between tools or query the warehouse separately

All this is achieved with built-in guardrails that prevent resource-intensive operations, protect your data warehouse, and ensure user oversight of all changes.

How to Use Agent Mode

1. Click the DinoAI icon (🪄) in the left panel of the Code IDE.

2. Select "Agent Mode" at the bottom of the DinoAI panel.

3. Type your prompt.

4. Review and accept DinoAI's suggestion(s) to add or modify files directly in your project.

Key Features of Agent Mode

Feature	Description
Direct File Editing	Writes SQL models, YAML files, tests, and documentation directly into your dbt™ project without copy-pasting. Creates new files and updates existing ones seamlessly.
Warehouse Awareness	Understands your data warehouse structure by querying metadata from information schema. Identifies available tables and columns, recognizes data types, and works with multiple warehouse types (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, etc.).
Add Context	Allows you to explicitly target specific files or folders for DinoAI to consider. Provides precise control by letting you add specific files, active files, or entire directories as context.
Built-in Guardrails	Prevents resource-intensive operations with safety measures and requires user approval before creating, modifying, or running files.
.dinorules Integration	Honors your .dinorules configuration file, ensuring consistent formatting, naming conventions, and project structure across your entire codebase.

Use Cases

Explore the following use cases to see Agent Mode in action:

• Creating DBT Sources from Data Warehouse

• Generating Well-Structured Base Models

• Building Complex Intermediate/Marts Models

• Bulk Documentation Generation

• Data Pipeline Configuration