unity-catalog-and-lakehouse-governance

unity-catalog-and-lakehouse-governance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills. It costs 61 tokens per session (624 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for governing Databricks lakehouse data with Unity Catalog. Unity Catalog organizes data, storage, access, ownership, sharing, and lineage across workspaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan catalog structures, external locations, credentials, access boundaries, sharing, ownership, and cross-workspace governance.
Why use it?
It helps teams keep shared data controlled and understandable as catalogs, schemas, storage locations, and users grow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan catalog structures, external locations, credentials, access boundaries, sharing, ownership, and cross-workspace governance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills/unity-catalog-and-lakehouse-governance
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills --skill unity-catalog-and-lakehouse-governance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 624 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.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00061 $0.00624
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00312
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00062

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3d7d846ad8c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

unity-catalog-and-lakehouse-governance 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 9d ago.

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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/unity-catalog-and-lakehouse-governance/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Unity Catalog And Lakehouse Governance

Overview

Use this skill when Unity Catalog is the core governance surface for a Databricks platform. It helps agents design governed boundaries across catalogs, schemas, storage locations, shares, and access paths for lakehouse data products.

When to Use

  • designing Unity Catalog hierarchy and ownership
  • defining external locations, credentials, and storage boundaries
  • governing shared Delta tables, views, volumes, or models
  • reviewing cross-workspace or multi-team lakehouse governance
  • planning secure sharing, publish approvals, or governed consumer access

Do not reduce Unity Catalog to permissions only. It is also a publish, ownership, and operating-boundary decision.

Workflow

  1. Define the governance hierarchy. Decide:

    • catalog boundaries
    • schema boundaries
    • producer versus consumer separation
    • ownership and stewardship paths
  2. Define storage and credential boundaries. Cover:

    • external locations
    • managed versus external tables
    • storage credentials
    • workspace and environment separation
  3. Define access and sharing behavior. Include:

    • roles and groups
    • row or column restrictions where needed
    • governed views
    • cross-team or external sharing expectations
  4. Align governance with lakehouse delivery. Require:

    • clear publish layers
    • lineage visibility
    • certification or trust signals
    • handling for schema and contract change
  5. Validate day-2 operations. Review how promotions, new workspaces, external consumers, and object-store boundaries behave under the governance model.

Common Rationalizations

Rationalization Reality
"We already use Databricks, so Unity Catalog design is obvious." Poor catalog and location design creates long-term friction in ownership, sharing, and environment boundaries.
"We can give broad workspace access and tighten later." Over-broad access becomes hard to unwind once shared data products are adopted.
"Lineage comes for free." Platform lineage is useful only when publish boundaries and ownership are designed intentionally.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 9d ago First seen · 78 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 3d7d846ad8c8

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unity-catalog-and-lakehouse-governance is a skill published in the GitHub repository vaquarkhan/data-engineering-agent-skills (45 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 624 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.