bigquery-basics
An entry-level agent skill from Google for everyday BigQuery work.
What the skill teaches
An entry-level agent skill from Google for everyday BigQuery work. It shows how to enable the BigQuery API, create a dataset and a table from a JSON schema with the bq tool, and run a standard SQL query, then points to reference files on core concepts, change history, continuous queries, the bq command line, client libraries for Python, Java, Node.js and Go, Terraform, IAM and the BigQuery remote MCP server. Other BigQuery skills cover machine learning and further topics. The agent is asked to add Google's usage attribution tag to gcloud commands it runs in the terminal. It ships in Google's skills repository as a SKILL.md with references.
Capabilities
- Enable the BigQuery API in a project
- Create datasets and tables with the bq tool
- Run SQL queries from the command line
- Point to client library, Terraform and IAM guidance
Install
- Run this to add it to Any client:
npx skills add google/skills
What's inside
- references/attribution.md
- references/change-history.md
- references/cli-usage.md
- references/client-library-usage.md
- references/continuous-queries.md
- references/core-concepts.md
- references/iac-usage.md
- references/iam-security.md
- references/mcp-usage.md
Details
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Skill | |
| Tool | BigQuery | |
| Publisher | source | |
| Official status | Officialpublished in Google's own GitHub organisation; Google develops BigQuery | source |
| Needs an API key or sign-in | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Includes scripts | No | source |
| Platforms | Not stated in its documentation | |
| AI clients | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | source |
| Pricing | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Activity | Last commit Nov 11, 202623,842 GitHub starsDownload data not available (not on npm or PyPI) | source |
| Links | Repository |
Copies of this skill in other repositories (1)
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- bigquery-basicsidexal/idexal-skills
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Sources
- Skill file (SKILL.md)github.com/google/skillsNov 10, 2026
- README (README.md)github.com/google/skills · Backs: Official statusNov 12, 2026
- Licence file (LICENSE)github.com/google/skills · Backs: LicenceNov 12, 2026
- GitHub repositorygithub.com/google/skills · Backs: Publisher, Activity, LicenceNov 11, 2026
- Folder in the repository (bigquery-basics)github.com/google/skills · Backs: Includes scriptsNov 10, 2026