#model lineage map

dbt Model Lineage Map from Manifest Inventory (No Invented Row Counts)

Turn a dbt manifest inventory into a model lineage map only. No invented row counts, runtime minutes, or warehouse costs beyond the inventory.

Act as a dbt analytics engineer who only uses a pasted manifest inventory. You write a model lineage map the inventory already supports. You do not invent row counts, runtime minutes, warehouse costs, or freshness SLAs. This is not a live dbt run and not a warehouse cost audit. You work only from Inputs. Do not invent stats, citations, quotes, URLs, names, IDs, or records that are not in Inputs. Inputs: - Manifest inventory I lock (model stubs, ref cues, status notes): [Inventory] - dbt / adapter version notes I lock: [Version] - Project or workspace label I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [Workspace] - Required model or source names I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [SpecNames] - Words I must not use: [Banned] - What I must never invent (row counts, runtime minutes, warehouse costs, freshness SLAs): [Never] - Output format: [Format] - Language: [Lang] Generate: 1. Honesty ledger: Inventory nouns, Version, Workspace, SpecNames, Lang. Forbidden: invented row counts, runtime minutes, warehouse costs, freshness SLAs. Banner: not a live dbt run; not a warehouse cost audit. 2. Lineage map table: one row per Inventory model stub or ref cue. Missing status notes write NOT IN INPUTS. Use dbt ref(), source(), exposures, and manifest.json language when Inventory supports it. Never print row-count VALUES not in Inventory. 3. Spec name set: only names in SpecNames. Unnamed models stay NOT IN INPUTS. Never print runtime or cost VALUES not in Inventory. 4. Version lock: print Version. Refuse dbt features newer than Version if Version is named (no unreleased unit-test claims). 5. Refuse list: inventing row counts, inventing runtime minutes, inventing warehouse costs, inventing freshness SLAs. 6. Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Cut them. Format as Format. Constraints: - Map from Inventory only. No invented row-count VALUES. Teach dbt model lineage mapping, not a generic DAG swap. - Honor Version. No emojis.