Install tutorial

Install the Databricks End-to-End Tutorial (Free Edition)

This repo ships its tutorials as Claude Code plugins, listed in the repo-level silveraiwolf marketplace (.claude-plugin/marketplace.json). The first tutorial is Databricks end-to-end (Free Edition) at tutorials/databricks/end-to-end/.claude/. Install it once, then walk 14 ordered stages (setup → lakebase → lakehouse → analytics → retrieval — retrieval now covers Vector Search + pgvector).

✅ Claude can install this for you. The interactive /plugin … slash commands can't be driven by Claude, but the claude plugin … CLI can (run via Bash). So this skill performs the install.

Instructions

1. Confirm the marketplace + check current state

cat .claude-plugin/marketplace.json     # repo-level "silveraiwolf" marketplace + plugins[]
claude plugin marketplace list          # already registered?
claude plugin list                      # already installed?

Expected: marketplace silveraiwolf listing plugin silver-databricks-end-to-end. Use whatever the file says if it differs. If it's already installed, skip to step 4 (just remind them to reload/restart).

2. Ask the user what to install

Always ask first with AskUserQuestion; never install blind.

1. From plugins[], list the installable plugin(s). One → name it; several → ask which (multiSelect).
2. Ask the install source:
   • Local (this clone) — works right now, no commit/push. Recommended while developing/pre-publish.
   • GitHub — only after the repo is committed + pushed. Check git ls-remote --exit-code origin <branch>; if not pushed, steer to Local.

3. Perform the install (Claude runs these via Bash)

Both sources use the repo-level silveraiwolf marketplace → install spec silver-databricks-end-to-end@silveraiwolf.

🪟 Windows: the claude CLI ships inside the desktop app and is often not on PATH (so claude … fails with "command not found"). Locate the bundled binary and call it by full path — it's at %APPDATA%\Claude\claude-code\<version>\claude.exe (e.g. & "$env:APPDATA\Claude\claude-code\2.1.181\claude.exe" plugin install silver-databricks-end-to-end@silveraiwolf). Find the exact path with Get-ChildItem "$env:APPDATA\Claude\claude-code" -Recurse -Filter claude.exe.

Local source — ⚠️ use the ABSOLUTE repo-root path (a relative path is misread as a GitHub repo):

ROOT="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
claude plugin marketplace add "$ROOT"
claude plugin install silver-databricks-end-to-end@silveraiwolf
claude plugin list | grep -A2 silver-databricks-end-to-end   # confirm: Status ✔ enabled

GitHub source (after commit + push):

claude plugin marketplace add samlexrod/silveraiwolf-learning
claude plugin install silver-databricks-end-to-end@silveraiwolf

If the marketplace is already registered, add errors with "already exists" — fine, proceed to install. Use one source, not both (same marketplace name silveraiwolf → collision); to switch, first claude plugin marketplace remove silveraiwolf.

4. Tell them what happens next

1. Restart Claude Code so the plugin's slash commands register. /reload-skills refreshes skills in the current session, but a newly installed plugin's commands generally do not surface until a full restart — so if /silver-databricks-end-to-end:start reports "Unknown command" right after install, that's expected; restart and try again (the command is already in ~/.claude/plugins/cache/).
2. Run /silver-databricks-end-to-end:start — the Stage 0 roadmap listing all 14 stages.
3. Walk the stages in order: connect → landing-zone → project → provision → seed → data-api → ingest → medallion → refresh → business-layer → semantic → ai-bi → vector-search → pgvector. Each names its precondition + "Next:".
4. Each stage is interactive: Claude runs the CLI/plumbing; the learner runs the notebooks in their own Free Edition workspace and reports results.

Developing this tutorial (important)

A directory-source install copies files into ~/.claude/plugins/cache/ — it does NOT live-load from the repo. After editing any stage/command/manifest, reinstall (claude plugin update no-ops when the version is unchanged):

claude plugin uninstall silver-databricks-end-to-end@silveraiwolf \
  && claude plugin install silver-databricks-end-to-end@silveraiwolf

Then run /reload-skills. Validate manifests before installing: claude plugin validate tutorials/databricks/end-to-end/.claude.

Marketplace layout (FYI)

Two marketplace.json files exist:

• .claude-plugin/marketplace.json (repo root, name silveraiwolf) — the canonical, repo-level marketplace that lists every tutorial plugin; used for both local and GitHub installs. source for this tutorial is ./tutorials/databricks/end-to-end/.claude/plugins/silver-databricks-end-to-end.
• tutorials/databricks/end-to-end/.claude/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json (name silver-databricks-end-to-end) — keeps the tutorial dir self-contained for isolated local dev (claude plugin marketplace add "$ROOT/tutorials/databricks/end-to-end/.claude" → silver-databricks-end-to-end@silver-databricks-end-to-end).

Both are force-tracked despite the repo's broad *.json gitignore (negations: !**/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json, !**/.claude-plugin/plugin.json). If a manifest doesn't show up in a clone, check those negations are present.

Adding more tutorials

Future tutorials add one entry to the repo-level silveraiwolf marketplace (plugins[]) and live under tutorials/<track>/<name>/.claude/plugins/<plugin>/. This skill installs whichever plugin the user picks.

Notes

• Primary install spec: silver-databricks-end-to-end@silveraiwolf (repo-level marketplace).
• Remove later: claude plugin uninstall silver-databricks-end-to-end@silveraiwolf, then claude plugin marketplace remove silveraiwolf.