# Introduction

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 **dbt-sugar is very much under active development. Development happens on** [bitpicky/dbt-sugar](https://github.com/bitpicky/dbt-sugar). **We absolutely would welcome any help from feature requests, discussion in issues, help with database connector testing to actual code changes! 🤗.**\
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## What is dbt-sugar?

dbt-sugar is a command-line interface tool that allows users of [dbt](https://www.getdbt.com/) to perform tasks such as **adding column and model documentation, enforce test coverage and tags (more to come)** directly from the CLI across a variety of dbt projects. Check out the [project roadmap ](https://github.com/bitpicky/dbt-sugar/blob/main/ROADMAP.md)if you want to know what is coming!

### Here's the tool in action

![dbt-sugar in action](https://197115110-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MPpnutmjx704tZYduoO%2F-MY1VSYM1gjLU6NedDBN%2F-MY1WNlbHHZwOR7RxdTL%2Fdocument_fct_orders.gif?alt=media\&token=ba526894-b59a-4c39-b904-46920dad3c6e)

### Overview of Current Features

#### [Documentation Task](https://bitpicky.gitbook.io/dbt-sugar/commands/dbt-sugar-doc)

* document a model's description
* document columns of a model (and propagate description across fields that are identically named, we call this "homogenise" and it is the main reason behind why we built dbt-sugar,
* add common `dbt` builtin tests such as `unique` or `not_null`,
* add tags

#### [Audit Task](https://bitpicky.gitbook.io/dbt-sugar/commands/dbt-sugar-audit)

* get a model or project level summary of the number of columns that are documented and tested.

#### [Bootstrap Task](https://bitpicky.gitbook.io/dbt-sugar/commands/dbt-sugar-bootstrap)

* Do you have very few models documented? Want to quickly generate `schema.yaml` files for all of your models and have it pre-populated by placeholders or already documented columns that share names across your projects. Kick it off with the bootstrap task

### What has recently changed?

We maintain and keep our CHANGELOG up to date on the [GitHub repository](https://github.com/bitpicky/dbt-sugar/). Head over [there](https://github.com/bitpicky/dbt-sugar/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md) if you want to see all the changes since the last release.