carto-connect-datawarehouse

CARTO runs spatial analytics in the user's own data warehouse. A connection is the bridge between CARTO and that warehouse: it carries credentials, target project/database scoping, and sometimes a service account or PAT. Most other CARTO operations (querying, importing, building maps, running workflows) require an existing connection.

When to use this skill

• The user wants to connect a new warehouse to CARTO.
• The user is debugging a connection (auth failures, missing tables, permission errors).
• A downstream skill needs a connection name and you don't yet know which engine the user has.
• The user is rotating credentials or moving from one project/database to another.

Use carto-explore-datawarehouse once a connection exists and you want to inspect what's inside it.

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