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title: Managed Airflow Dag Authoring — Invoked Exchange skill
description: Provides guidance for authoring Apache Airflow DAGs in Managed Service for Apache Airflow (MSAA; formerly Cloud Composer). Covers environment context discovery, Airflow 2 vs 3 compatibility, authoring best practices, and local/remote validation processes. Use when creating or extending an Airflow DAG. Don't use when authoring Python code unrelated to Airflow DAGs.
doc_version: "1.0"
last_updated: "2026-08-17T08:32:45.366Z"
canonical: https://invoked.ai/skills/managed-airflow-dag-authoring
---

# Managed Airflow Dag Authoring

Provides guidance for authoring Apache Airflow DAGs in Managed Service for Apache Airflow (MSAA; formerly Cloud Composer). Covers environment context discovery, Airflow 2 vs 3 compatibility, authoring best practices, and local/remote validation processes. Use when creating or extending an Airflow DAG. Don't use when authoring Python code unrelated to Airflow DAGs.

- Shared by: google/skills
- Composes surfaces: 
- Tool chain: 
- Add to Invoked: https://invoked.ai/skills/managed-airflow-dag-authoring

## Community usage

_Building — published once enough workspaces have run this skill._

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