Tecton Operations Skill

Critical: Output Handling for Long Commands

Tecton commands (especially tecton-plan) produce very long output that gets truncated. Always use temp file capture pattern:

bash

TMPFILE=$(mktemp)
PANTS_CONCURRENT=True pants tecton-plan --workspace=<workspace> --skip-tests 2>&1 | tee "$TMPFILE"; echo "EXIT_CODE: $?"
# Inspect results
tail -200 "$TMPFILE"
# If needed, inspect more or search for specific errors
rg "error|Error|ERROR" "$TMPFILE"
# Clean up when done
rm -f "$TMPFILE"

Key points:

•Use tee to capture output to temp file while still streaming
•Check exit code with echo "EXIT_CODE: $?"
•Use tail or rg to inspect the temp file as needed
•Always clean up the temp file when done with the operation

Environment

•Set PANTS_CONCURRENT=True when running multiple pants invocations concurrently
•All commands must be run from the data-science repo root

Workspaces for Testing

•checkoutandsale-v1-staging: Staging workspace - check against this first
•bence-dev: Personal dev workspace for clarifying issues if staging fails with confusing errors

If staging passes, no need to check against bence-dev. Use bence-dev only when staging errors are unclear.

Operations

tecton-plan

Runs tecton plan against a workspace. Use --skip-tests to speed up iteration.

bash

# Plan against staging (check this first)
TMPFILE=$(mktemp)
PANTS_CONCURRENT=True pants tecton-plan --workspace=checkoutandsale-v1-staging --skip-tests 2>&1 | tee "$TMPFILE"; echo "EXIT_CODE: $?"
tail -200 "$TMPFILE"
rm -f "$TMPFILE"

# Plan against dev workspace (only if staging errors are unclear)
TMPFILE=$(mktemp)
PANTS_CONCURRENT=True pants tecton-plan --workspace=bence-dev --skip-tests 2>&1 | tee "$TMPFILE"; echo "EXIT_CODE: $?"
tail -200 "$TMPFILE"
rm -f "$TMPFILE"

tecton-test-run

Run Tecton tests using the pants test goal with --tecton-test-run flag.

bash

# Run all tecton tests in a directory
pants test --tecton-test-run projects/features/repos/sig_tecton/tests/sig_tecton/datasources/orders/::

# Run a specific test file
pants test --tecton-test-run projects/features/repos/sig_tecton/tests/sig_tecton/datasources/orders/test_orders_datasources.py

# Run a specific test function
pants test --tecton-test-run projects/features/repos/sig_tecton/tests/path/to/test_file.py -- -k test_function_name

For long test runs, use the same temp file capture pattern:

bash

TMPFILE=$(mktemp)
pants test --tecton-test-run projects/features/repos/sig_tecton/tests/:: 2>&1 | tee "$TMPFILE"; echo "EXIT_CODE: $?"
tail -200 "$TMPFILE"
rm -f "$TMPFILE"