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Description

Fixes #5928.

Add audit rendering to the existing CLI command:

• sqlmesh render MODEL --audit NAME renders every effective invocation attached to that model, preserving arguments and order.
• sqlmesh render --audit NAME renders a standalone audit, including projects with no models.

Add Context.render_audit and emit labeled SQL statements separated by semicolons. Preserve existing model output, dates, owning formatting options, and dialect overrides. Reject --expand in audit mode.

The command does not execute the audit failure queries. Project loading, metadata reads, and user macros keep their existing database behavior. Render and serialize all statements before printing SQL so failures leave stdout empty.

Test Plan

• Demonstrated failing regressions before implementation and before fixing standalone-only and missing-model guidance.
• CLI render tests: 21 passed. Context render tests: 30 passed. Existing audit tests: 50 passed.
• Coverage includes repeated arguments, overrides, skipped audits, macros, gateways, snapshot relations, dialects, formatting, execution boundaries, and later-statement failures.
• Actual docs examples rendered through the CLI, parsed, and executed separately against disposable data. Existing model output matches baseline byte for byte; documented help matches the executable.
• mkdocs build, make style, and the full make fast-test: passed.

Checklist

• I have run make style and fixed any issues.
• I have added tests for my changes.
• All existing tests pass (make fast-test).
• My commits are signed off (git commit -s) per the DCO.

Drafted-by: Codex (GPT-6); reviewed by @Vamsi-klu before posting

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Render SQL for model-attached or standalone audits from the command line. Standalone audits can be rendered without a model, while attached audits require one.
  • Rendering supports audit invocations, dialect selection, and SQL formatting options. Audit rendering cannot be combined with model expansion and does not execute the query.
• Documentation
  • Updated the audit and CLI guides with usage, audit-name resolution, parameter options, and rendering limitations.

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Walkthrough

Adds context and CLI support for rendering model-attached and standalone audit queries. The render command accepts an optional model for standalone audits and adds validation and dialect and formatting handling. Tests and documentation cover the new behavior.

Changes: Audit SQL rendering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Context audit rendering sqlmesh/core/context.py, tests/core/test_context.py	Adds GenericContext.render_audit to resolve and render audit failure queries without executing them. Tests cover audit selection, invocation arguments, snapshot relations, runtime options, macros, and error cases.
CLI audit rendering sqlmesh/cli/main.py, tests/cli/test_cli.py, docs/reference/cli.md, docs/concepts/audits.md	Adds render --audit for attached and standalone audits, including validation, dialect selection, formatting, and output handling. Tests and documentation cover the command behavior and constraints.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant Render as sqlmesh render
  participant Context as GenericContext.render_audit
  participant Stdout
  User->>Render: Invoke with --audit
  Render->>Context: Request audit query rendering
  Context-->>Render: Return rendered audit queries
  Render->>Stdout: Print formatted SQL

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Possibly related PRs

• SQLMesh/sqlmesh#6156: The rendered output reflects the failure-query SQL changes for built-in audits.
• SQLMesh/sqlmesh#6120: Its standalone audit macro-loading change is relevant to rendering standalone audit definitions that use project macros.

Suggested reviewers: mday-io, cmgoffena13

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to ce193

This adds audit SQL rendering to the render command without changing the existing model render path. No actionable merge-blocking risk was found in the supplied context.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 23.08% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: rendering attached and standalone audit SQL through the CLI.
Description check		The description includes the required Description, Test Plan, and Checklist sections. It explains the changes, reports test results, and marks the checklist items complete.
Linked Issues check		Issue #5928 requests SQL rendering for a selected audit. The PR adds Context.render_audit and the sqlmesh render --audit path for model-attached and standalone audits. The reported tests cover inv…
Out of Scope Changes check		The CLI and context changes implement issue #5928. The audit documentation and CLI/context tests support the same feature. The summary identifies no unrelated changes.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue #5928 requests SQL rendering for a selected audit. The PR adds Context.render_audit and the sqlmesh render --audit path for model-attached and standalone audits. The reported tests cover invocation rendering and lookup behavior. These changes meet the issue’s coding requirement.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 23.08% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 13 functions across 4 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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• docs/concepts/audits.md
• docs/reference/cli.md
• sqlmesh/cli/main.py
• sqlmesh/core/context.py
• tests/cli/test_cli.py
• tests/core/test_context.py

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