aidp-migrator-overview — router

Migrating a Databricks workload onto AIDP is a multi-phase operation. This skill picks the right next skill based on what the user asks.

When to use

• The user mentions "migrate Databricks", "port from Databricks to AIDP", "Unity Catalog migration", "DBX → AIDP", "lift-and-shift Databricks job", or similar.
• The user asks "where do I start" with the migrator toolkit.
• The user asks for an overview of the migrator architecture.

The two-pass architecture (mental model)

┌────────────────────┐   ┌──────────────────────┐   ┌─────────────────────┐
│ Pass-0: Plan       │ → │ Pass-1: Dep code     │ → │ Pass-2: Execute     │
│  build_dag.py      │   │  ensure_migrated()   │   │  job_migrate.py     │
│  check_data_       │   │  walks %run tree,    │   │  cell-by-cell on a  │
│  availability.py   │   │  rewrites Databricks │   │  live AIDP cluster, │
│                    │   │  APIs in each dep    │   │  4-way verify, up   │
│  (read-only)       │   │  notebook (no run)   │   │  to 10 fix attempts │
└────────────────────┘   └──────────────────────┘   └─────────────────────┘

The catalog migration is a SEPARATE flow, run BEFORE Pass-2 (so the
schemas + table locations exist when migrated notebooks try to read them):

┌──────────────────────────────────┐   ┌──────────────────────────────────┐
│ extract_catalog_databricks.py    │ → │ migrate_catalog.py               │
│  REST against Unity Catalog API  │   │  18 DDL rewrite rules → batched  │
│  → reports/catalog_pack.json     │   │  CREATE SCHEMA / CREATE TABLE    │
│                                  │   │  on AIDP in a single WS execute  │
└──────────────────────────────────┘   └──────────────────────────────────┘

Pick the right skill for the user's ask

What the user must have set up before any of this

This plugin is self-contained — the full migrator engine ships bundled under ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/engine/. Before any skill in this plugin can do real work, the user needs:

1. Engine Python deps installed. One-time pip install -r ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/engine/requirements.txt. Skill aidp-migrator-bootstrap walks through this and the rest of these checks.
2. ~/.oci/config with either an api_key profile (unattended) or session-token profile (interactive).
3. An ACTIVE AIDP cluster. The engine's Pass-2 requires a live cluster — the WebSocket execute path. If the cluster is stopped, ask the user to start it via AIDP console before invoking aidp-migrate-job.
4. ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in the environment. The engine uses Claude with tool use for every cell rewrite. Without this key the Pass-2 loop won't run.
5. An env-coords.md file — see references/env-coords.template.md. The customer fills in their DataLake OCID, workspace UUID, cluster ID, AIDP base URL, OCI profile name once; every other skill threads these through.

What this plugin does NOT do

• It does not migrate Databricks dbutils.fs to OCI Object Storage files — only table/notebook/job constructs. File-level DBFS replication is a separate exercise.
• It does not handle Databricks Workflows-on-Pipelines (DLT) — only Jobs + tasks. DLT pipelines need manual recreation as Spark structured streaming + scheduling.
• It does not migrate Databricks ML feature-store registrations or MLflow model versions automatically. Those need separate handling.
• It does not provision the AIDP cluster, workspace, or DataLake. Assume those exist.

Key references

• references/cli-map.md — every migrator CLI entrypoint mapped to its purpose.
• references/gotchas.md — 15 Databricks → AIDP gotchas with fix recipes.
• references/ddl-rewrite-rules.md — the 18 DDL rewrite rules.
• references/env-coords.template.md — the scaffold every skill threads from.

Order of operations for a fresh migration

1. aidp-migrator-bootstrap — once per workstation.
2. aidp-migrate-catalog — schemas and tables FIRST, so notebook reads have targets.
3. aidp-bucket-mapping — only if migrating tables with s3:// external locations.
4. aidp-build-dag — produces reports/<job>_manifest.json.
5. aidp-check-data — verify before committing cluster time.
6. aidp-migrate-job — the big run.
7. aidp-fixup-cell (only if needed) for cells the auto-fix loop couldn't recover.
8. aidp-acceptance-contract (for streaming / batch convergence pipelines).