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Databricks Field Guide by TechFabric

MCP serverVerified domain · databricks.techfabric.comRemote● LiveFree to try

Interactive Databricks learning, certification practice and sourced engineering guidance.

Install

Remote server: your requests and data go to databricks.techfabric.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http databricks-field-guide-by-techfabric https://databricks.techfabric.com/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.

What it can do

The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.

  • start_here — Start using the Field Guide immediately. Call this for 'help me learn Databricks', 'try the Field Guide', or to begin certification prep. No
  • search_guide — Search the guide's chapters, margin notes and events for a Databricks question. Returns the best sections first, each with a snippet, its UR
  • get_chapter — One chapter (or margin note) of the guide as clean Markdown with its code blocks intact, or one section of it: with its outline, its code bl
  • get_code_examples — The SQL, Python, CLI and config blocks in the guide that match a topic, each with the explanation around it, the section it is from (URL wit
  • whats_new — Recent Databricks changes the guide tracks, newest first: margin notes (dated news with our position), release-stage changes from the featur
  • list_chapters — Every chapter in the guide's order, with its part, summary, dates, URL, Markdown URL and its main sections; and the margin notes.
  • review_databricks_code — Check one file of SQL, Python (PySpark, a notebook's source) or YAML (a Databricks Asset Bundle, job, cluster or warehouse config) against t
  • estimate_cost — Estimate a Databricks workload's monthly cost from the figures the Field Guide states (list prices per DBU by compute type, DBUs an hour by
  • explore_concept — Interactive: explains one Databricks concept step by step from the Field Guide's chapters: delta-transaction-log, liquid-clustering-vs-zorde
  • quiz_me — Interactive: quizzes the reader. Call it when the user says "quiz me on Unity Catalog", "test me on Lakebase" or "check what I know about th
  • learn_path — Interactive: a curated learning path through the Field Guide, by role or goal (data-engineer-fundamentals, analytics-engineer, ml-engineer,
  • exam_prep — Interactive: certification prep for Databricks' exams (data-engineer-associate, data-engineer-professional, data-analyst-associate, machine-
  • flashcards — Interactive: flashcards for a Databricks exam domain (data-engineer-associate, data-engineer-professional, data-analyst-associate, machine-l
  • visualize — Interactive: draws your answer as a card the reader can use, from an A2UI v0.9.1 document you write: a comparison of options with a verdict,
  • decide — Interactive: walks a Databricks decision one question at a time (which-compute, serverless-or-classic, lakebase-or-delta, genie-or-dashboard
  • explore_diagram — Interactive: a chapter's own diagrams, played step by step: each flowchart edge or sequence message in order, each node linking the section
  • toolkit_info — What TechFabric's free Chrome extension for Databricks (TechFabric Toolkit for Databricks 0.10.0) does, how to install it, the permissions i
  • toolkit_generate — Runs one of the offline generators from the Build tab of TechFabric's Chrome extension for Databricks (TechFabric Toolkit for Databricks 0.1

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