# migrating-ai-sdk-to-common-ai

Moves Airflow projects off airflow-ai-sdk onto the official apache-airflow-providers-common-ai 0.4.0+ provider. Useful when LLM decorators and model config have to move to connections.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 348 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/migrating-ai-sdk-to-common-ai/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-14
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## What it does

The skill walks the migration step by step. First it greps the repo for everything tied to the old SDK: `airflow_ai_sdk` imports, the `@task.llm`, `@task.agent`, `@task.llm_branch` and `@task.embed` decorators, model strings like `"gpt-5"`, and `airflow_ai_sdk.BaseModel` subclasses. That inventory drives the rest of the work.

Then dependencies change: `airflow-ai-sdk[openai]` goes out and `apache-airflow-providers-common-ai[openai]>=0.4.0` comes in. Model configuration moves from code into an Airflow connection of type `pydanticai` with the ID `pydanticai_default`, where the model is written as `provider:model`. The decorator's `model` argument becomes `llm_conn_id`, and `result_type` becomes `output_type`.

What you need in place first: the new provider requires Airflow 3.0+, and 0.4.0 needs `pydantic-ai-slim >= 1.71.0`. There is no `@task.embed` in the new provider — embeddings go through the LlamaIndex integration or a plain `@task`. If the project already runs common-ai 0.1.x, the skill helps there too: multimodal prompts, `toolsets`, embedding operators and structured-output XCom behavior all changed between 0.1.0 and 0.4.0.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add astronomer/agents --skill migrating-ai-sdk-to-common-ai -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add astronomer/agents --skill migrating-ai-sdk-to-common-ai -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add astronomer/agents --skill migrating-ai-sdk-to-common-ai -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install astronomer/agents migrating-ai-sdk-to-common-ai
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/migrating-ai-sdk-to-common-ai/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add astronomer/agents --skill migrating-ai-sdk-to-common-ai -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/astronomer/agents --path skills/migrating-ai-sdk-to-common-ai
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add astronomer/agents --skill migrating-ai-sdk-to-common-ai -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/migrating-ai-sdk-to-common-ai/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- replace `airflow-ai-sdk` with the official `common-ai` provider
- move model config out of code into a `pydanticai` Airflow connection
- rewrite imports from `airflow_ai_sdk` to the new provider
- upgrade a project from common-ai 0.1.x to 0.4.x
- switch `@task.embed` to the LlamaIndex embedding operator

## Example prompts
- Scan the project for everything using `airflow-ai-sdk` and help me migrate it to `apache-airflow-providers-common-ai`
- Replace `model="gpt-5"` in my DAGs with the `pydanticai_default` connection
- Upgrade this project from common-ai 0.1.x to 0.4.0: multimodal prompts, toolsets, embedding operators

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name: migrating-ai-sdk-to-common-ai
description: Migrates Airflow projects from airflow-ai-sdk to apache-airflow-providers-common-ai 0.4.0+. Use when replacing airflow-ai-sdk with the official Airflow AI provider - migrating LLM decorators (@task.llm, @task.agent, @task.llm_branch, @task.embed), switching from model strings/objects to connection-based LLM configuration, updating imports from airflow_ai_sdk to the new provider, or upgrading an existing common-ai 0.1.x setup to 0.4.x (multimodal prompts, toolsets, embedding operators); also when common-ai provider, AIP-99, a pydanticai connection or migrating away from airflow-ai-sdk come up.
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# Migrate airflow-ai-sdk to apache-airflow-providers-common-ai

This skill migrates Airflow projects from `airflow-ai-sdk` to `apache-airflow-providers-common-ai` (target **0.4.0+**), the official Airflow AI provider built on PydanticAI. It also covers upgrading projects already on common-ai 0.1.x, since several capabilities (multimodal prompts, `toolsets`, embedding operators, structured-output XCom behavior) changed between 0.1.0 and 0.4.0.

> **CRITICAL**: The new provider requires **Airflow 3.0+** and (for 0.4.0) **pydantic-ai-slim >= 1.71.0**. The API surface has changed: LLM configuration moves from code (model strings/objects) to Airflow connections (`pydanticai` type). There is no `@task.embed` in the new provider; embeddings move to the LlamaIndex integration or a plain `@task` (see Step 3).

## Before starting

Use the Grep tool with the pattern below to inventory everything that needs to migrate:

```
airflow_ai_sdk|airflow-ai-sdk|ai_sdk|@task\.llm|@task\.agent|@task\.llm_branch|@task\.embed
```

From the results, capture:

1. All files importing `airflow-ai-sdk` / `airflow_ai_sdk`
2. Which decorators are in use: `@task.llm`, `@task.agent`, `@task.llm_branch`, `@task.embed`
3. The model configuration pattern (string names like `"gpt-5"`, or `OpenAIModel(...)` objects)
4. Any `airflow_ai_sdk.BaseModel` subclasses used as `output_type`

Use this inventory to drive the steps below.

---

## Step 1: Update requirements.txt

**Remove:**
```
airflow-ai-sdk[openai]
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