Databricks Genie Agents
Create, manage, and query Genie Agents (formerly Genie Spaces) - natural language interfaces for SQL-based data exploration.
Overview
Genie Agents allow users to ask natural language questions about structured data in Unity Catalog. The system translates questions into SQL queries, executes them on a SQL warehouse, and presents results conversationally.
A Genie Agent is a curated agent scoped to specific data — its tables, sample questions, and instructions are authored for a particular business area. This is distinct from Genie One / the general "ask Genie" data-discovery path (see the databricks-data-discovery skill), which answers questions across your data without a curated, per-scope agent.
Genie Agent Lifecycle
| Phase | Reference | Load when | Typical CLI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design + Create | create-genie-agent.md | Always load before creating or updating. Gather requirements, profile data, design surfaces, get approval — before any CLI | discover-schema → create-space / update-space |
| Query / validate | query-genie-agent.md | Querying via Conversation API or Agent mode API; authoring SQL for Metric View sources | start-conversation / get-message |
| Diagnose | diagnose-genie-agent.md | Agent gives wrong/empty answers — gather space ID + failing question + observed behavior first | get-space --include-serialized-space; system.query.history |
| Optimize | optimize-genie-agent.md | Benchmark-driven quality tuning — gather space ID + optimization goal + benchmark target first | genie-create-eval-run; update-space |
| Export / migrate | genie-agent-cicd.md | Export, import, cross-workspace migration, batch migration, DABs/CI-CD | get-space → remap → create-space |
| — | serialized-space.md | Constructing or debugging serialized_space payloads — field schemas, constraints, Python helper | — |
| — | uc-persistence.md | Setting up UC Delta tables for multi-pass optimization history — CREATE TABLE DDL only | — |
Typical flow: create → query/validate → diagnose → optimize.
Prerequisites
- Tables in Unity Catalog — bronze/silver/gold tables with the data
- SQL Warehouse — a warehouse to execute queries (auto-detected if not specified)
Related Skills
- databricks-data-discovery - General natural-language data exploration / "ask Genie" (Genie One) across your data; use it when you are not targeting a specific curated Genie Agent
- databricks-metric-views - Build governed business metrics that Genie consumes. See SKILL.md for metric-view design rules that affect Genie answer quality, and query-patterns.md for the
MEASURE()query rules Genie must follow. - databricks-agent-bricks - Use Genie Agents as agents inside Supervisor Agents
- databricks-unity-catalog - Manage the catalogs, schemas, and tables Genie queries