Presets

Overview

A preset is a ready-made lint profile. It answers two questions for you:

1. How many rules should run? (a small core set, or almost everything)
2. When should CI fail? (only on hard errors, or on warnings too)

You set it once in .dbt-doctor or on the CLI:

preset=strict

npx dbt-doctor@latest --preset strict

CLI --preset takes priority over the file if both are set.

If preset is omitted, dbt-doctor now applies default automatically.

Which preset should I use?

New to dbt-doctor?
  └─► preset=default          (core rules only, least noise)

PR checks / docs + SQL style
  └─► preset=strict            (core + documentation + SQL style rules)

Platform / data governance
  └─► preset=enterprise        (full catalog, fails on warnings)

Overriding

Your .dbt-doctor values take precedence over the preset.

preset=strict
fail_on=warning

That keeps strict’s rule set but only fails the job on warnings.