# metabase-learning

Runs you through a 9-session Metabase curriculum with spaced-repetition reviews. Useful when you want a fixed path instead of scattered docs.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 324 installs · ★ 53
- Author: metabase
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/metabase/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/metabase-learning/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/metabase-learning

## What it does

This skill turns the agent into a Metabase tutor. The program has 9 required one-hour sessions, from orientation and the query builder through dashboards, alerts, Data Studio, and Metabot with MCP. Review slots sit between them: the agent asks from memory first, then explains. Teaching is Socratic, so the question comes before the answer.

Each session has a reference file at `references/session-N-<topic>.md` holding concepts, recall questions, and answers. Progress lives in `progress.json`. The agent reads it when a session opens, proposes a one-line plan, and waits for you to confirm. Your Easy / Medium / Hard self-rating moves the next review date. Wrong answers split into conceptual and terminological gaps, and only the first kind gets flagged as a weak topic.

Session 10 covers admin basics and is optional. At the end of Session 9 the agent asks whether to continue and records the choice in `progress.json`. If you only use Metabase rather than run an instance, that session is skippable — and you can opt in later if you change your mind.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add metabase/agent-skills --skill metabase-learning -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add metabase/agent-skills --skill metabase-learning -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add metabase/agent-skills --skill metabase-learning -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install metabase/agent-skills metabase-learning
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add metabase/agent-skills --skill metabase-learning -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/metabase/agent-skills --path skills/metabase-learning
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add metabase/agent-skills --skill metabase-learning -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/metabase/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/metabase-learning/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- follow a structured Metabase course instead of scattered articles
- test recall before moving to a new topic
- learn the query builder without writing SQL
- assemble a dashboard from existing questions
- set up alerts and subscriptions for reports

## Example prompts
- let's do my Metabase session
- quiz me on Metabase
- what should I study today in Metabase?

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: metabase-learning
description: >
  A spaced repetition learning coach for Metabase. Use this skill whenever the user wants to:
  learn Metabase, start a Metabase training session, do a Metabase review, practice Metabase
  concepts, check what they should study today, get quizzed on Metabase, run through active
  recall on BI tools, or follow a structured learning program for data analytics software.
  Trigger this skill even if the user just says "let's do my Metabase session", "quiz me on
  Metabase", or "what should I study today?" in a Metabase learning context.
metabase_version: "0.61"
last_updated: "2026-05-28"
---

# Metabase Spaced Repetition Learning Coach

A structured Metabase training program: 9 required one-hour sessions plus an optional
admin session, with spaced-repetition reviews interleaved between them. This skill teaches
Socratically — asking before telling — and adapts pacing to the learner's self-rated
difficulty.

---

## The Curriculum

| # | Title | Key Theme | Required? |
|---|-------|-----------|-----------|
| 1 | Orientation | What Metabase is and how it thinks | Required |
| 2 | Query Builder | Asking questions without SQL | Required |
| 3 | Visualizations | Turning answers into charts | Required |
| 4 | SQL Questions | Native queries and template variables | Required |
| 5 | Dashboards | Assembling questions into dashboards | Required |
| 6 | Data Organization | Collections, models, metrics, segments | Required |
| 7 | Alerts & Subscriptions | Automated delivery | Required |
| 8 | Data Studio | Transforms, semantic layer, dependencies | Required |
| 9 | AI: Metabot & MCP | Built-in assistant and external AI access | Required |
| 10 | Admin Basics | Databases, permissions, metadata | Optional |

Reference files for each session live in `references/session-N-<topic>.md`. Each contains
the teaching concepts, recall questions, and answers.

Present the outline of the curriculum to the learner at the start of Session 1, then reference
it as needed throughout. It is not necessary to review the outline at the start of every session.

**About Session 10:** Most learners don't need admin material — it's for people who set up
or manage Metabase instances rather than use them. At the end of Session 9, ask the learner
whether they want to continue to Session 10 or wrap up. They can always opt in later. See
Graduation & Maintenance Mode for how this affects mastery.

---

## Session Entry: Propose, Confirm, Begin

When the user opens a session, follow this entry pattern every time:

1. Read `progress.json` (see Progress & Persistence below) to determine what's due.
2. Propose the plan in one line. Do not include estimated times, which are usually not accurate.
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