# blueprint

Creates validated Airflow task group templates with Pydantic and composes DAGs from YAML files.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 552 installs · ★ 456
- Author: astronomer
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/astronomer/agents/tree/HEAD/skills/blueprint/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-14
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/astronomer-blueprint

## What it does

This skill guides agents through using the `airflow-blueprint` package (version 0.5.0). It standardizes how you declare `Blueprint` classes, validate step parameters with Pydantic's `BaseModel`, and wire tasks into a `TaskGroup` using the `render()` method. Once templates exist, team members can assemble working DAGs purely from YAML configurations.

Setup requires Python 3.10+ and Apache Airflow 2.5+. You add `airflow-blueprint>=0.5.0` to `requirements.txt` and instantiate `dags/loader.py` with `build_all_airflow_dags()`. The function name matters directly: Airflow safe-mode DAG parsing ignores any file that does not contain both `airflow` and `dag`.

Config types must stay single-typed. Unions such as `str | int` trigger an immediate `TypeError` at class definition time to avoid ambiguous YAML schemas. Step models also default to ignoring extra keys; setting `model_config = ConfigDict(extra="forbid")` prevents silent syntax drops in YAML steps.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add astronomer/agents --skill blueprint -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/blueprint/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/blueprint/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add astronomer/agents --skill blueprint -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/blueprint/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add astronomer/agents --skill blueprint -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/blueprint/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install astronomer/agents blueprint
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/blueprint/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add astronomer/agents --skill blueprint -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/astronomer/agents --path skills/blueprint
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/blueprint/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add astronomer/agents --skill blueprint -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/astronomer/agents/tree/HEAD/skills/blueprint/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- assemble Airflow DAGs from YAML declarations
- validate task group parameters using Pydantic models
- compose multiple blueprint templates inside a single step
- initialize the Airflow loader script via build_all_airflow_dags

## Example prompts
- Create a blueprint template for a bash task group with Pydantic validation
- Set up dags/loader.py for airflow-blueprint
- Show me how to compose two blueprints inside render

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: blueprint
description: Define reusable Airflow task group templates with Pydantic validation and compose DAGs from YAML. Use when creating blueprint templates, composing DAGs from YAML, declaring shared variables or per-environment profiles, validating configurations, sharing templates as an installable package, or enabling no-code DAG authoring for non-engineers.
---

# Blueprint Implementation

You are helping a user work with Blueprint, a system for composing Airflow DAGs from YAML using reusable Python templates. Execute steps in order and prefer the simplest configuration that meets the user's needs.

> **Package**: `airflow-blueprint` on PyPI — this skill documents **0.5.0**
> **Repo**: https://github.com/astronomer/blueprint
> **Requires**: Python 3.10+, Airflow 2.5+
> **Cross-references**: the `airflow` skill for Astro CLI, registry, and REST API discovery commands; `authoring-dags` or `dag-factory` when the user needs full Airflow flexibility instead of validated templates.

---

## Determine What the User Needs

| User Request | Action |
|--------------|--------|
| "Create a blueprint" / "Define a template" | Go to **Creating Blueprints** |
| "Build a template from other templates" | Go to **Composing Templates** |
| "Create a DAG from YAML" / "Compose steps" | Go to **Composing DAGs in YAML** |
| "Reuse a value across steps or DAGs" / "Different value per environment" | Go to **Variables and Profiles** |
| "Use a blueprint in an existing Python DAG" / "Generate DAGs in a loop" | Go to **Blueprints in Python DAGs** |
| "Customize DAG args" / "Add tags to DAG" / "Different DAG defaults per folder" | Go to **Customizing DAG-Level Configuration** |
| "Share templates across repos" / "Install blueprints from a package" | Go to **Sharing Blueprints as a Package** |
| "Override config at runtime" / "Trigger with params" | Go to **Runtime Parameter Overrides** |
| "Post-process DAGs" / "Add callback" / "Don't let one bad file break everything" | Go to **Loader Options** |
| "Validate my YAML" / "Lint blueprint" | Go to **Validation Commands** |
| "Set up blueprint in my project" | Go to **Project Setup** |
| "Version my blueprint" | Go to **Versioning** |
| "Generate schema" / "Astro IDE setup" | Go to **Schema Generation** |
| Blueprint errors / troubleshooting | Go to **Troubleshooting** |

---

## Project Setup

If the user is starting fresh, guide them through setup:

### 1. Install the Package

Add `airflow-blueprint>=0.5.0` to `requirements.txt`.

### 2. Create the Loader

Create `dags/loader.py`:

```python
from blueprint import build_all_airflow_dags

build_all_airflow_dags()
```

> **The function name matters.** Airflow's safe-mode DAG file processor only parses files containing both `airflow` and `dag`, so the import line itself is what makes the loader discoverable. `build_all` and `build_all_dags` still work as deprecated aliases that emit `DeprecationWarning`; migrate existing loaders to `build_all_airflow_dags`.
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