# db-context-engineering

Generates and tunes context artifacts for the QueryData API. It translates natural language questions into accurate SQL or GQL queries across Google Cloud databases.

- plugin · `type=plugin` · Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex · ★ 41
- Author: GoogleCloudPlatform · official Google repository
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/db-context-enrichment/tree/HEAD/plugin
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/plugins/db-context-engineering

## What it does

The agent builds and refines `ContextSets` to enrich database schemas for Gemini Data Analytics tools. Each set bundles full query templates alongside modular `Facets` for filters. It also includes `Value Searches` to map raw inputs like typos to database records. The plugin handles relational SQL and GQL across AlloyDB, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Spanner.

Work proceeds in three stages. The agent inspects domain documentation to map concepts onto tables and columns. Next, it generates an evaluation dataset with verified queries. A recursive hill-climbing loop then tests accuracy against this benchmark, isolates failures, and updates the context.

Running this plugin requires active Google Cloud APIs: Data Analytics API, Gemini for Google Cloud API, and Dataplex Universal Catalog API. Appropriate IAM permissions and database Data API access must be configured beforehand.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Plugin marketplace**
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin marketplace add google/skills
```
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin install db-context-engineering@google-plugins
```

## When to use it
- generate context sets for the QueryData API
- improve translation accuracy from natural language to SQL and GQL
- build an evaluation dataset of validated queries
- map domain terminology to database schema columns

## Example prompts
- Build a `ContextSet` for the AlloyDB database schema
- Optimize context using dataset in `<file>`
- Generate a test question dataset for Cloud Spanner

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# Context Engineering Agent

The **Context Engineering Agent** is an AI coding agent plugin designed to run in developer agent harnesses (such as Claude Code, Antigravity, or Gemini CLI). It generates, evaluates, and iteratively tunes tailored context artifacts (`ContextSets` comprising `Templates`, `Facets`, and `Value Searches`) to enrich database schemas for **Gemini Data Analytics's data agent developer platform tools**, supporting both **relational SQL** and **Graph Query Language (GQL)** across [AlloyDB](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/data-agents/querydata/alloydb/data-agent-overview), Cloud SQL ([PostgreSQL](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/data-agents/querydata/sql-postgres/data-agent-overview) / [MySQL](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/data-agents/querydata/sql-mysql/data-agent-overview)), and [Cloud Spanner (GoogleSQL, Spanner Graph, and PostgreSQL)](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/data-agents/querydata/spanner/data-agent-overview).

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## Why Context Engineering?

When building data agents and natural language analytics interfaces, accurately translating user intent into database queries—whether relational SQL (PostgreSQL, GoogleSQL, MySQL), pure GQL, or hybrid graph queries—is critical. 

As outlined in **Build Context with Context Engineering Agent** ([AlloyDB](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/data-agents/querydata/alloydb/build-context-gemini-cli) | Cloud SQL: [PostgreSQL](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/data-agents/querydata/sql-postgres/build-context-gemini-cli) / [MySQL](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/data-agents/querydata/sql-mysql/build-context-gemini-cli) | [Spanner](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/data-agents/querydata/spanner/build-context-gemini-cli)), by optimizing a `ContextSet` to match your application's expected query stream, the **QueryData API** acts as a data agent tool capable of achieving **~100% NL-to-SQL/GQL translation accuracy with low latency**.

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## Core Concepts

A `ContextSet` is the central artifact generated and managed by the agent, containing structured knowledge across SQL and GQL query domains in three primary forms:

* **Templates**: Link natural language query patterns to complete query statements (supporting relational SQL, pure GQL with `GRAPH ... MATCH`, and hybrid `GRAPH_TABLE` queries for Spanner Graph).
* **Facets**: Reusable, modular query fragments (e.g., parameterized `WHERE` clauses, specialized join filters, or graph `MATCH` traversal patterns) linked to domain vocabulary.
* **Value Searches**: Specialized mapping queries that dynamically resolve user-supplied values (e.g., *"Lndn"*) to database records (*"London"*) via the capabilities of the underlying database, such as embedding search, AI operators, or trigram search on relational and graph property tables.

For full schema details, structure specifications, and dialect-specific JSON representations of `ContextSets`, see the official **Context Sets Overview** ([AlloyDB](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/data-agents/querydata/alloydb/context-sets-overview) | Cloud SQL: [PostgreSQL](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/data-agents/querydata/sql-postgres/context-sets-overview) / [MySQL](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/data-agents/querydata/sql-mysql/context-sets-overview) | [Spanner](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/data-agents/querydata/spanner/context-sets-overview)).

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## Prerequisites & Environment Setup

Before getting started, prepare your GCP environment, required APIs (Data Analytics API, Gemini for Google Cloud API, Dataplex Universal Catalog API), IAM permissions, and database Data API settings.

Follow the step-by-step setup guide in the official documentation:
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