---
title: "Context belongs in the warehouse"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/context-belongs-in-the-warehouse-bga2nkpnt
source_url: https://motherduck.com/blog/context-belongs-in-the-warehouse
type: article
source: "MotherDuck"
published: 2026-07-29T15:05:30.524Z
updated: 2026-07-29T15:05:52.780Z
tags: ["ai-agents", "mcp", "data-warehouse", "duckdb"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 1
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Context belongs in the warehouse

**[MotherDuck](https://daily.dev/sources/motherduck)** · 7 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

MotherDuck is launching Guides, a context layer for AI agents that lives inside the data warehouse. Guides are markdown files with metadata that store metric definitions, join relationships, business caveats, and style conventions — queryable via SQL and versioned like any warehouse object. On the DABStep agentic analytics benchmark, Guides improved agent accuracy by 72 percentage points and reduced cost per run by ~55% compared to agents discovering context on their own. A small model (Gemini Flash) answered 99.5% of benchmark questions correctly at roughly two cents each. Guides integrate with the MotherDuck MCP server and work with Claude, Codex, Cursor, and other MCP clients. They support org-level and user-level ownership, automatic propagation of updates, and SQL-based management via functions like MD_CREATE_GUIDE().

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