Code with AI on a unified, governed platform

Genie Code, our coding agent optimized for Databricks, allows you to chat instead of code to perform your data and AI tasks. Critically, Genie Code’s integration with Unity Catalog ensures that the agent understands your enterprise’s data and follows the same security and governance rules as the rest of the Databricks platform. Thus, Genie Code significantly outperforms a leading coding agent by more than twice on real-world data tasks such as exploratory data analysis, machine/deep learning, creating dashboards, agents, apps, declarative automation bundles, Lakeflow jobs and scheduling them.

However, Genie Code and other general AI coding assistants lack domain specificity and assume generic methods and clinical thresholds that do not meet healthcare and life sciences (HLS) standards or best practices.

Databricks Vital Skills bridges this gap by providing packaged playbooks built in the open Agent Skills standard. They equip AI coding agents with industry knowledge so agents know which questions to ask, which steps are non-negotiable, and which tested tools to use.

Vital Skills is designed for Genie Code to make the best use of the unified Databricks ecosystem so generated code is not disconnected from your governed data, and you're not left to stand up serving, GPUs, governance, and scheduling yourself. You get a system, not just a sandbox. With the Databricks ecosystem, you: