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dbt-plan MCP Server

Predicts the DDL a dbt change will execute, before you run it. Reads files, not the warehouse.

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Reviewed GitHub reports

10 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 7.

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dbt-plan run --format json prints a non-JSON line before the JSON

$ dbt-plan run --format json
Snapshot saved to .dbt-plan/base
{
  "summary": {
...

The first line is not JSON. _do_snapshot prints "Snapshot saved to ..." to stdout (cli.py:234) on the way to _do_check printing the report (cli.py:1198), so json.loads on run's stdout fails.

check --format json is clean — the difference is that run calls snapshot first.

This matters because docs/llms.txt:64-66 lists run and check side by side as the two commands an agent can…

Read the thread · 2026-09-06 · open · 1 comment

The MCP server and the Action cannot reach --target-dir, and the MCP has no way to make a baseline

dbt-plan check takes --target-dir. Neither wrapper passes it:

A project with target-path: build in dbt_project.yml, or DBT_TARGET_PATH set, gets No compiled SQL found — which the MCP turns into verdict: error and the Action turns into a failed step under set -eu. Both are loud rather than falsely safe, and both are avoidable:…

Read the thread · 2026-09-06 · open · 1 comment

Non-UTF-8 compiled SQL crashes with a traceback and exit 1, which the Action reports as destructive

diff.py handles non-UTF-8 compiled SQL on purpose:

except UnicodeDecodeError:
    # Non-UTF-8 file: treat as modified with no cached SQL.
    # Callers will see base_sql=None / current_sql=None and
    # produce REVIEW REQUIRED — consistent with the false-safe-ban rule.
    diffs.append(ModelDiff(name, "modified", base_path, current_path))
    continue

cli.py:990 responds to that None by reading the same file again, unguarded:

if diff.current_sql is not None:…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/PresentJay/dbt-plan/issues/173) · 2026-09-06 · open · 0 comments

### The workflow ci-setup generates fails on warnings and never reaches its own Gate step, and the committed example is a different file

`dbt-plan ci-setup` writes `_CI_WORKFLOW` (`cli.py`). Its last two steps:

```yaml
      - name: Check current
        run: |
          git checkout ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
          dbt compile
          dbt-plan check --format github >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY

      - name: Gate
        run: dbt-plan check

GitHub runs a run: block as bash -e {0}. dbt-plan check exits 2 on any warning, so on a warning:

Read the thread · 2026-09-06 · open · 0 comments

The MCP server calls an acknowledged DROP COLUMN safe, and never passes on a stale target

#135 is one of three ways the MCP server's verdict disagrees with the report it was built from. The other two are not fixed by deriving the verdict from refusals, because in both of them refusals is empty.

Measured, dbt-core 1.11.7 + dbt-duckdb 1.10.1, an incremental with sync_all_columns dropping tax.

1. An acknowledged drop becomes safe with nothing in refusals

# .dbt-plan.yml
acknowledge_models:
  - fct

$ dbt-plan check
DESTRUCTIVE  fct (incremental,…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/PresentJay/dbt-plan/issues/162) · 2026-09-06 · open · 0 comments

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### One unnamed projection discards every column name in the model, and since #131 that means exit 2

`extract_columns` returns `None` for the whole model when any single projection has no
name (`columns.py:225-228`). Measured:

aliased everything -> ['id', 'total'] unaliased count(*) -> None <-- whole model unreadable unaliased coalesce -> None unaliased case -> None unaliased arithmetic -> None unaliased lower() -> None unaliased window fn -> None unaliased column ref -> ['id', 'amount'] qualified unaliased col ->…

Read the thread · 2026-09-06 · open · 0 comments

The MCP server answers safe when warning_exit_code is 0, including for refusals

The MCP server's module docstring sets the rule it is built around:

If this ever answers {"safe": true} for something dbt-plan actually declined to judge, it is worse than not existing.

It can, with one line of config.

server.py:47 maps the exit code straight to a verdict:

_VERDICTS = {0: "safe", 1: "destructive", 2: "review_required"}

.dbt-plan.yml can set what that 2 is:

warning_exit_code: 0

_exit_code_for (cli.py:455) then returns 0 for every…

Read the thread · 2026-09-05 · open · 0 comments

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