LakeXpress Agent Skill

arpe.io publishes official agent skills in the arpe-io/arpeio-skills GitHub repository. The lakexpress skill teaches your AI agent how to build, explain and troubleshoot LakeXpress pipelines: the credentials file, sync configurations, incremental syncs, publishing to a lakehouse, and resuming a failed export.

The same repository also has skills for FastBCP, FastTransfer, MigratorXpress and the arpe.io ADBC drivers.

Skill or MCP server?

The skill is a set of instructions: it teaches the agent how LakeXpress works, and the agent writes the command. The arpe.io MCP server gives the agent tools that build, validate and, if you allow it, run LakeXpress commands. The two work well together, so install both if your agent supports them.

Claude Code

Install the skill as a plugin from the arpe.io marketplace:

/plugin install lakexpress --marketplace arpe-io/arpeio-skills

Or in two steps:

/plugin marketplace add arpe-io/arpeio-skills
/plugin install lakexpress@arpe-io

Then just ask, for example: "Export the sales schema from PostgreSQL to Parquet on S3 and publish it to Snowflake with LakeXpress".

To get the latest version of the skill later:

/plugin marketplace update arpe-io
/plugin update lakexpress@arpe-io

Other agents (Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI…)

Copy the skill folder into the directory your agent reads skills from:

git clone https://github.com/arpe-io/arpeio-skills.git
cp -r arpeio-skills/plugins/lakexpress/skills/lakexpress <your-agent-skills-dir>/

For agents without skill support, paste the content of SKILL.md as custom instructions. The files in its references/ folder can be attached or pasted when needed.

Product version

The skill states the LakeXpress version its facts were checked against. Before building a command, it asks the agent to check the installed version (LakeXpress --version) and to confirm against this documentation when the installed product is newer.

Reporting issues

If the agent gets something wrong, open an issue at github.com/arpe-io/arpeio-skills/issues with the LakeXpress version, the prompt you gave, and the command the agent produced (with passwords and licence text removed).