renamed
Unity Catalog Skills
Unity Catalog Skills was renamed - Databricks now calls it Unity Gateway Skills, as of September 2026.
Unity Catalog Skills Unity Gateway Skills
Unity Catalog securable that holds an agent skill, so a team publishes the skill once and governs who can discover, use, and update it with the same grants, tags, and audit that protect its tables.
- The first-class, three-level-namespace, fully governed securable is, on disk, a folder with a Markdown file in it: "A skill is just a folder."
- Skills got a securable type of their own but no privileges of their own - you share one by granting READ VOLUME, because a skill keeps its contents in managed storage much like a volume does.
- The notebook Databricks ships for syncing a Git repo of skills into a schema creates and updates but never deletes, so a skill you delete from the repo carries on existing in the catalog until someone drops it by hand.
- Category
- Data governance
- Also known as
- UC Skills
- Verified
- 2026-09-27
Sources
- Official Official Databricks / Microsoft docs
- Official Databricks release notes: Unity Catalog Skills Beta (August 2026)
- Official Databricks docs: Create and share Unity Catalog Skills
- Official Databricks docs: Discover and use Unity Catalog Skills
- Official Databricks docs: Govern skills
- Official Microsoft Learn: What are Unity Catalog Skills
- Web The SKILL.md specification Unity Catalog Skills follow