Introducing AI Agent Tooling: Bringing Airflow Intelligence to Your Local Workflow

Astronomer has released an open-source AI agent tooling designed to enhance AI coding agents with specialized knowledge of Apache Airflow, enabling developers to work with Airflow's intricacies more effectively within their preferred development environments, such as VS Code, Cursor, or Claude Code. This tooling provides modular skills that guide AI agents in creating, testing, and debugging Airflow workflows, analyzing data warehouse schemas, and handling Dag migrations, among other tasks, by leveraging deep contextual understanding of Airflow and data engineering best practices. The tool is designed to integrate seamlessly with existing workflows, reducing friction for developers who prefer local-first development environments, while also supporting collaborative and community-driven enhancements through its open-source nature under the Apache 2.0 license. The initiative aims to make AI-assisted development accessible to a wider range of users by allowing them to utilize expert Airflow assistance without leaving their current tools, ultimately fostering a more productive data engineering ecosystem.