bigquery-data-transfer-service

bigquery-data-transfer-service is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gemini-cli-extensions/data-agent-kit-starter-pack. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,626 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for finding and inspecting BigQuery Data Transfer Service settings. This service moves data into BigQuery through scheduled or configured transfers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover transfer configurations, inspect their metadata, and manually trigger existing transfers.
Why use it?
It helps reveal existing data-ingestion pipelines and their source and transfer details before changing or building a pipeline.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the dak plugin — 33 skills, 10 MCP servers shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gemini-cli-extensions/data-agent-kit-starter-pack/bigquery-data-transfer-service
Any agent
npx skills add gemini-cli-extensions/data-agent-kit-starter-pack --skill bigquery-data-transfer-service
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/data-agent-kit-starter-pack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install dak, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 10 MCP servers.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,626 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00079 $0.01626
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00813
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00163

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8b34bf814948, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bigquery-data-transfer-service scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/bigquery_dts.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/bigquery-data-transfer-service/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BigQuery Data Transfer Service (DTS)

Mandatory Guidelines

[!IMPORTANT]

All new BigQuery Data Transfer Service (DTS) configurations MUST be provisioned through the gcp pipeline resource provisioning framework, which includes generating a deployment.yaml.

  • Do NOT use imperative CLI commands (e.g., bq mk or gcloud) to create or update configurations.
  • CLI commands are permitted only for discovery (listing/showing) and triggering manual runs.

This guide enables the discovery of existing ingestion resources and provides metadata related to ingestion when needed.

Workflow

Step 0: Discover Environment Parameters

Before generating configurations, discover the actual values for the target project and region.

[!TIP]

If deployment.yaml already exists in the repository root, prioritize extracting project and region from the target environment configuration (e.g., dev).

  1. Project: gcloud config get project
  2. Region: gcloud config get compute/region

[!TIP]

Use these commands to replace placeholders like <PROJECT_ID> with actual values. Always remove associated comments that start with TODO once replaced.

Step 1: Check for Existing Transfers

Before assuming a new transfer is needed, check for existing ones in the target region.

  1. List Transfers:

    bq ls --transfer_config \
      --transfer_location=<REGION> \
      --project_id=<PROJECT_ID>
    
  2. Analyze Existing Transfers:

    • Single Transfer Found:

      • Check if the transfer has at least one successful run: bq ls --transfer_run --transfer_config=<RESOURCE_NAME>
      • If found: Use existing transfer config.
      • If not found: Confirm with user if it's ok to trigger the transfer run.
    • Multiple Transfers Found:

      • Attempt to guess the correct one based on context.
      • Ask user to confirm.

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 195 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 8b34bf814948

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bigquery-data-transfer-service is a skill published in the GitHub repository gemini-cli-extensions/data-agent-kit-starter-pack (179 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,626 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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