--- title: #1 on Spider 2.0–DBT Benchmark – How Databao Agent Did It description: Databao Agent achieved the #1 ranking on the Spider 2.0–DBT benchmark as of February 2026, which evaluates how well AI agents can operate in real dbt projects.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/1-on-spider-2-0-dbt-benchmark-how-databao-agent-did-it-ttdfli3h1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: #1 on Spider 2.0–DBT Benchmark – How Databao Agent Did It | daily.dev og:description: Databao Agent achieved the #1 ranking on the Spider 2.0–DBT benchmark as of February 2026, which evaluates how well AI agents can operate in real dbt projects.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/1-on-spider-2-0-dbt-benchmark-how-databao-agent-did-it-ttdfli3h1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TtDfli3h1.png og:image:alt: #1 on Spider 2.0–DBT Benchmark – How Databao Agent Did It og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # #1 on Spider 2.0–DBT Benchmark – How Databao Agent Did It **[JetBrains](https://daily.dev/sources/jetbrains)** · 9 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Databao Agent achieved the #1 ranking on the Spider 2.0–DBT benchmark as of February 2026, which evaluates how well AI agents can operate in real dbt projects. The team shares the engineering decisions behind the result: rather than using a better model, they focused on reducing agent uncertainty through better context injection (upfront project files, database overviews, summarized build logs) and enforcing a disciplined workflow (restricting tool access, limiting file edits to specific directories, enforcing a checklist). Key lessons include that inconsistency was the main enemy, that 'cleverness' mechanisms like multi-run voting made things worse, and that a clean linear prompt policy outperformed a layered 'prompt onion.' The core insight is that reliability must be designed at the tool and system level, not just through prompting. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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