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databricks Platform · Updated Aug 28, 2026

Unity Catalog Skills (Beta)

You can now publish, govern, and share agent skills with Unity Catalog.

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What it does

You can now publish, govern, and share agent skills with Unity Catalog. A skill is a first class Unity Catalog securable (catalog.schema.skill) that follows the SKILL.md specification, so you register it once and control who can discover, use, and update it with the same permissions, tags, and audit that protect your tables. Coding agents download published skills or load them live over MCP.

Why it matters

You can now publish, govern, and share agent skills with Unity Catalog.

Key capabilities
Discover and use Unity Catalog
Discover and use Unity Catalog Skills
Connect your coding agent to
Connect your coding agent to Databricks, then discover and use governed skills your team published.
Create and share Unity Catalog
Create and share Unity Catalog Skills
Develop a skill locally, publish
Develop a skill locally, publish it to Unity Catalog, and share it so any teammate's agent can use it.
Architecture
Databricks Platform → Platform
In short

You can now publish, govern, and share agent skills with Unity Catalog. A skill is a first class Unity Catalog securable (catalog.schema.skill) that follows the SKILL.md specification, so you register it once and control who can discover, use, and update it…

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Key takeaway
You can now publish, govern, and share agent skills with Unity Catalog.
2026-08-28-unity-catalog-skills-beta Generated by the Databricks Updates Agent · browse all updates