Enable dbt Copilot beta

This page explains how to enable the dbt Copilot engine in dbt Cloud, leveraging AI to speed up your development and allowing you to focus on delivering quality data.

Prerequisites

• Available in the dbt Cloud IDE only.
• Must have an active dbt Cloud Enterprise account.
• Development environment has been upgraded to "Versionless".
• By default, dbt Copilot deployments use a central OpenAI API key managed by dbt Labs. Alternatively, you can provide your own OpenAI API key as described below.
• Accept and sign legal agreements. Reach out to your Account team to begin this process.

Enable dbt Copilot

dbt Copilot is only available at an account level after your organization has signed the legal requirements. It's disabled by default. A dbt Cloud admin can enable it by following these steps:

1. Navigate to Account settings in the navigation menu.

2. Under Settings, confirm the account you're enabling.

3. Click Edit in the top right corner.

4. Enable the Enable account access to AI-powered features option.

5. Click Save. You should now have the dbt Copilot AI engine enabled for use.

Note: To disable (only after enabled), repeat steps 1 to 3, toggle off in step 4, and repeat step 5.

Example of the 'Enable account access to AI-powered feature' option in Account settings

Bringing your own OpenAI API Key (BYOK)

Once AI features have been enabled, you can provide your own organization's OpenAI API key. dbt Cloud will then your OpenAI account and terms to power dbt CoPilot. Note that this will incur billing charges to your organization from OpenAI for requests made by CoPilot.

Note that Azure OpenAI is not currently supported, but will be in the future.

A dbt Cloud admin can provide their API key by following these steps:

1. Navigate to Account settings in the navigation menu.

2. Under Settings, click on Integrations.

3. Scroll to AI. Select the toggle for OpenAI

4. Enter your API key and save.