Property YAML is where dbt conventions either stick or dissolve—especially once you care how meta tags and configs look in review. I built dbt-yaml-guardrails as small pre-commit checks that lint those files without a compiled manifest, handy for tightening rules whether or not Fusion is on your roadmap. Here’s why I wanted something apart from checkpoint, autofix, and project-evaluator, how spec-first development kept the project honest, and what I’d still simplify about the hook API.

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I keep running into the same two anti-patterns with dbt incremental models, and… I get why people reach for them. They kind of work. Until they don’t.

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There's no body shaming here but as a big proponent of code formatters and pre-commit hooks, I was a little shocked by the extent of the makeover Prettier gave my code (and I learned how to spell "curiosity")

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