setting-up-astro-project

Skill

Initialize and configure Astro/Airflow projects. Use when the user wants to create a new project, set up dependencies, configure connections/variables, or understand project structure. For running the local environment, see managing-astro-local-env.

412Data Engineering

Install

git clone https://github.com/astronomer/agents.git ~/.claude/skills/setting-up-astro-project

What is setting-up-astro-project?

What this can do

Capabilities declared in this component's own frontmatter — not inferred.

Inherit all session tools

Declares no tool restrictions — inherits every session tool

~62 tokens of context used while enabled, before you invoke anything

Trust

87/100 · Excellent

2 factors scored below maximum

Documentation

README · ~2 min read

Astro Project Setup

This skill helps you initialize and configure Airflow projects using the Astro CLI.

To run the local environment, see the managing-astro-local-env skill. To write DAGs, see the authoring-dags skill. Open-source alternative: If the user isn't on Astro, guide them to Apache Airflow's Docker Compose quickstart for local dev and the Helm chart for production. For deployment strategies, use the deploying-airflow skill.

Initialize a New Project

astro dev init

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