federate-lakehouse-catalog

federate-lakehouse-catalog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gemini-cli-extensions/data-agent-kit-starter-pack. It costs 149 tokens per session (2,568 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Instructions for connecting BigQuery and Spark, Google Cloud data tools, to remote Iceberg catalogs such as Databricks Unity Catalog or AWS Glue Data Catalog. An Iceberg catalog is a service that keeps track of tables and their data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure a federated catalog, choose compatible Google and AWS regions, and gather the credentials and permissions needed for Databricks or AWS Glue.
Why use it?
Data stored in another cloud or catalog is otherwise harder to query from Google Cloud. This setup provides a documented path for connecting to supported remote catalogs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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

Good fit Use it to configure a federated catalog, choose compatible Google and AWS regions, and gather the credentials and permissions needed for Databricks or AWS Glue.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gemini-cli-extensions/data-agent-kit-starter-pack/federate-lakehouse-catalog
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add gemini-cli-extensions/data-agent-kit-starter-pack --skill federate-lakehouse-catalog
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 149 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,568 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 62
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 83
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00149 $0.02568
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.01284
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00514
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00257

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0bf225594ee6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

federate-lakehouse-catalog 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 10d ago.

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.

skills/federate-lakehouse-catalog/SKILL.md · 309 lines

How it starts

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Federate Lakehouse Catalog via Cross-cloud Lakehouse

This skill describes how to set up a federated catalog in BigQuery to query remote catalogs like Databricks Unity Catalog or AWS Glue Data Catalog data in AWS over the public internet.

Prerequisites

  • For Databricks: Databricks Workspace URL and OAuth Service Principal (Client ID and Secret) with read access.
  • For AWS Glue: AWS Administrator access to create IAM roles and permissions policies.
  • Active Google Cloud project with administrative access to create lakehouse resources, and secrets in the case of Databricks.

Procedure

Step 1: Information Gathering and Region Selection

Before running any commands, the agent MUST collect the following information from the user:

  1. Determine which catalog the user wants to federate to (e.g., Databricks Unity or AWS Glue) and verify it is supported.
  2. Determine where the remote data is located (the specific AWS region).
  3. Using the Region Pairing Best Practice in the Gotchas section, help the user pick the optimal GCP region to minimize latency.
  4. Collect the necessary configuration variables for the chosen flow (e.g., Databricks credentials or AWS Account ID).

Only proceed to the next steps once this information is confirmed.

Step 2: API Verification

Verify that the required Google Cloud APIs are enabled for the project:

gcloud services check biglake.googleapis.com

If the API is not enabled, explicitly ask the user for permission to enable it. Do NOT proceed without their confirmation.

Flow A: Databricks Unity Catalog

1. Create a Regional Secret for Credentials

Store the Databricks client ID and secret in Secret Manager. Ensure the secretmanager.googleapis.com API is enabled. The secret MUST be in the same region as your Lakehouse catalog.

  1. Create a JSON file named credentials.json:
{
  "client_id": "<CLIENT_ID>",
  "client_secret": "<CLIENT_SECRET>"
}
  1. Set the Secret Manager API endpoint override for the region:

Read the full file on GitHub · 309 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 309 lines · 149 tokens per session scan A 0bf225594ee6

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federate-lakehouse-catalog is a skill published in the GitHub repository gemini-cli-extensions/data-agent-kit-starter-pack (180 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 2,568 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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