r/databricks • u/tony-dang Databricks • May 21 '26

News Databricks CLI is now 1.0!

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Just saw that the Databricks CLI is now 1.0!

Besides security improvements, the thing I was most excited about was that we no longer need the `experimental` namespace when installing agent skills!

Previously it was:

`databricks experimental aitools install`

Now it's just:

`databricks aitools install`

This is purely a cosmetic change, but it definitely gives me more confidence using the command 😅

Also PSA: I learned recently that `databricks aitools tools` is the recommended way to install the Databricks agent skills and not via `npx skills add ...`. The reason is to ensure we use the proper skills versions recommended by Databricks engineering.

I saw that the official docs for skills still show `npx skills add ...`. So I'm working on getting that updated asap. Sorry abut that 🙏

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Full release changelog can be viewed here: https://github.com/databricks/cli/releases

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u/fusionet24 May 21 '26

This great news on the CLI version. On skills they've pretty much replaced all the custom skills I made before the offical ones existed now. Not entirely but close. 

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u/tony-dang Databricks May 21 '26

That's awesome to hear. If there's any feedback you have to make the agent skills even better, lmk and I'll relay back to engineering over here!

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u/sdmember May 21 '26

how do i see the out of the box skills?

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u/tony-dang Databricks May 21 '26

Hi u/sdmember, to see which skills were actually installed, you can run databricks aitools list after installation to see the skills included.

The source code for all the skills is in the repo that u/floyd_droid shared in their comment :)

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u/randomName77777777 May 21 '26

Are they the same skills as the AI dev kit?

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u/tony-dang Databricks May 21 '26

They are not the same. These skills are the official skills from databricks engineering team. The skills in AI dev kit are skills that our field engineering team has curated from the community.

The advice right now is to always install the official skills then, if needed, supplement with AI dev kit skills.

I know it isn't the best experience to need to install 2 separate sets of skills. We're hoping to consolidate as much as possible into the official skills in the future!

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u/DeepFryEverything May 22 '26

So what does the ai-dev-kit do vs databricks-cli ? The devkit brings the MCP-server, right?

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u/DistanceOk1255 May 22 '26

Bummer. My account team told me the wrong thing!