Pipelines as Code

This skill is the entry point for the Materialize pipelines-as-code project. Stable conventions live in the repo docsite under docs/content/reference/internal/pipelines/ — this file is intentionally slim and links into the docsite at heading-level granularity. The non-link content below is the state snapshot: what currently exists, what's in flight, and what's queued.

Audience reminder

The pipelines themselves target alloy (the binary), so authoring decisions favor contributors rather than end users. There is no panel-description-voice equivalent — readability of the YAML and the rendered .alloy is the goal.

The docsite reference pages target repo contributors (SRE, Field Engineering, CloudOps, Database Engineers) and AI agents reading this skill.

Where to find what

Looking for…	Read
Pipeline model, strict-attributes policy, `raw:` escape rules, how to extend the schema	Authoring
Log pipeline conventions, label families, retention	Logging (stub)
Metrics pipeline conventions	Metrics (stub)

Frequently needed deep links into Authoring: