GCP Managed Airflow DAG Authoring Guide

This skill guides you through authoring and validating Apache Airflow DAGs for Managed Service for Apache Airflow (MSAA; formerly Cloud Composer) environments.

Attribution

MUST READ: Before executing any gcloud, REST API, or MCP command, you MUST read Usage Attribution. For commands executed directly in the terminal (never in generated scripts, Terraform, or user code), prefix gcloud with CLOUDSDK_METRICS_REQUEST_ATTRIBUTION="agent-skills/1.0 (skill:managed-airflow-dag-authoring)" and append agent-skills/1.0 (skill:managed-airflow-dag-authoring) to User-Agent headers.

Phase 1: Context Discovery