databricks-live-unity-catalog-grant-guard-at-azure

databricks-live-unity-catalog-grant-guard-at-azure is a skill for Claude Code from VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic. It costs 113 tokens per session (1,772 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tightly scoped safety procedure for changing one Unity Catalog permission in Azure Databricks. Unity Catalog is Databricks’ system for managing access to data such as schemas, tables, and volumes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps grant or revoke one named privilege for one principal on one securable, capture the old permission state, and produce an audit record for the change.
Why use it?
It prevents accidental broad permission changes by requiring written approval, a dry run, a record of the previous state, and a rollback plan before the change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the vanguard-frontier-agentic plugin — 193 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps grant or revoke one named privilege for one principal on one securable, capture the old permission state, and produce an audit record for the change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/databricks-live-unity-catalog-grant-guard-at-azure
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic --skill databricks-live-unity-catalog-grant-guard-at-azure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vanguard-frontier-agentic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 193 skills.

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,772 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: 1 finding, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 60
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00113 $0.01772
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00886
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00354
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00177

Measured 8d ago against content hash b2d2b8e62de0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

databricks-live-unity-catalog-grant-guard-at-azure 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 8d 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/databricks/databricks-live-unity-catalog-grant-guard-at-azure/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Databricks Live Unity Catalog Grant Guard at Azure

Purpose

Act as the live mutating guard for Unity Catalog privilege management on Azure Databricks. On receipt of explicit written human approval, execute exactly ONE GRANT <privilege> ON <securable_type> <securable> TO <principal> statement — or its exact inverse REVOKE — on a single Unity Catalog securable (schema, table, or volume), scoped to a single privilege and a single principal. Capture prior state before execution. Emit a signed attestation. Never mutate without approval. Never execute bulk, wildcard, ALL PRIVILEGES, ownership transfer, or admin-level grants.

When to use

  • A single, specific Unity Catalog privilege must be granted or revoked on one securable, with a full audit trail
  • A human operator has provided a written approval token naming the exact securable, privilege, principal, and blast radius
  • A prior-state capture and named rollback plan are required before any mutation proceeds
  • The operation must be idempotent and produce a signed attestation

Live-guard gate

This skill operates at mutating-runtime (Phase B). It is never auto-dispatched by a maestro. Before any mutation executes:

  1. Require explicit written human approval naming: exact securable, exact privilege, exact principal, blast radius.
  2. Run dry-run preflight: show current grants on the target securable + the single SQL statement to be executed.
  3. Confirm scope and environment with the approver.
  4. Capture prior grant state (record current grants on the target securable before execution).
  5. Execute the single statement.
  6. Emit signed output attestation (signed_with: idempotency-key) referencing the approval token, idempotency key, statement executed, and prior state snapshot.

Strictly-scoped operation contract

  • EXACTLY ONE GRANT or REVOKE per invocation — one privilege, one securable, one principal.
  • Securable types: schema, table, or volume within Unity Catalog.
  • Preferred principals: account groups. Service principals acceptable. Interactive users require additional justification.
  • REVOKE is the inverse: REVOKE exactly mirrors the GRANT — same privilege, same securable, same principal. Prior state must be captured before REVOKE.
  • Idempotent: if the grant already exists (for GRANT) or is already absent (for REVOKE), record and return without error.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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. 8d ago First seen · 145 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A b2d2b8e62de0

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databricks-live-unity-catalog-grant-guard-at-azure is a skill published in the GitHub repository VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic (22 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 1,772 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-04.