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11 registry resources · 8 tutorials, 2 references · roadmap: Agentic Data Engineering
What this topic covers
DE//AGENT currently lists 11 resources under agentic: 8 tutorials, 2 references, 1 pattern. Everything below is derived from the live registry — counts, capabilities, verification state and security posture come from the curated records, never from marketing copy.
What you can learn here
Documented learning objectives across these resources:
- Separate agent read/recommend from write/execute — via Keep an agent read-only until a human approves
- Encode the safety policy as hooks — via Keep an agent read-only until a human approves
- Keep a human gate on anything irreversible — via Keep an agent read-only until a human approves
- Name the four parts of an agent — model, tools, loop, guardrails — via What makes an agent — model, tools, loop, guardrails
- Identify each part in a real registry agent — via What makes an agent — model, tools, loop, guardrails
- Say where DE agents fit — review, triage and planning under guardrails — via What makes an agent — model, tools, loop, guardrails
- Explain where hooks run — on tool-call and pre-run events, outside the model — via Hooks — deterministic gates around an agent
- Match each safety hook to the failure it prevents — via Hooks — deterministic gates around an agent
16 more objectives live on the individual resource pages.
Where this fits in the learning roadmap
These resources map to stage: Agentic Data Engineering (11). Follow the four-phase roadmap to place this topic inside a progression instead of learning it in isolation.
Compare the registry's options
Every entry, its shape and its trust state — sorted by the registry's composite score. This table is the honest version of a marketing comparison: no sponsored placements, no unverifiable claims.
| Resource | Type | Difficulty | Verification | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agent-in-the-Loop Review | Pattern | intermediate | community | 35.75 |
| Keep an agent read-only until a human approves | Tutorial | beginner | community | 34.15 |
| What makes an agent — model, tools, loop, guardrails | Tutorial | beginner | community | 34.15 |
| Hooks — deterministic gates around an agent | Tutorial | intermediate | community | 34.15 |
| Inside a skill — SKILL.md, references, examples, the loading protocol | Tutorial | intermediate | community | 34.15 |
| Onboard an agent with the DE Data Toolkit | Tutorial | intermediate | community | 34.15 |
| Capstone — the guarded agent checklist | Tutorial | advanced | community | 34.15 |
| Production gotchas — untrusted content, destructive actions, permission scope | Tutorial | advanced | community | 34.15 |
| When an agent does the wrong thing — contain, audit, postmortem | Tutorial | advanced | community | 34.15 |
| Agent Skills (open format) | Reference | — | community | 27.7 |
| Model Context Protocol Specification | Reference | — | community | 27.7 |
How scores are computed: source quality score.
Where to start
Highest composite score first:
- Agent-in-the-Loop Review score 35.75 — intermediate
- Keep an agent read-only until a human approves score 34.15 — beginner
- What makes an agent — model, tools, loop, guardrails score 34.15 — beginner
Scores rank provenance, completeness and trust — read how verification works before adopting anything.
Good fits
Start here if you're new: Keep an agent read-only until a human approves, What makes an agent — model, tools, loop, guardrails.
Reach for these with production experience: Capstone — the guarded agent checklist, Production gotchas — untrusted content, destructive actions, permission scope, When an agent does the wrong thing — contain, audit, postmortem.
Cautions and limitations
Known limits: A purely local sandbox with no real data (Agent-in-the-Loop Review)
Production use cases
- Agent-in-the-Loop Review — Coding agents can do real data-engineering work, but can also ship a schema change or drop a table. details
- Keep an agent read-only until a human approves — Coding agents can do real data-engineering work, but can also ship a schema change or drop a table. Walk the Agent-in-the-Loop Review pattern: separate read/recommend from write/ex… details
- What makes an agent — model, tools, loop, guardrails — Build the map before touching anything: an agent is a model that reasons, tools that act, a loop that iterates, and guardrails that bound it. Meet a real data-engineering agent fro… details
- Hooks — deterministic gates around an agent — The model can be talked into anything; a hook is code on the tool path. Walk the four safety hooks every data repo should know — destructive-SQL guard, prod write confirmation, sec… details
Further study
Adjacent topics: tutorial (8 shared), guardrails (4 shared), review (3 shared), security (3 shared), skills (2 shared), format (2 shared).
Study path: the roadmap places this topic in a progression · the scoring model explains the numbers · the trust rule catalog shows every security check these entries passed through.
Full resource list
| Resource | Type | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Agent-in-the-Loop Review | Pattern | 35.75 |
| Keep an agent read-only until a human approves | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| What makes an agent — model, tools, loop, guardrails | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Hooks — deterministic gates around an agent | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Inside a skill — SKILL.md, references, examples, the loading protocol | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Onboard an agent with the DE Data Toolkit | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Capstone — the guarded agent checklist | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Production gotchas — untrusted content, destructive actions, permission scope | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| When an agent does the wrong thing — contain, audit, postmortem | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Agent Skills (open format) | Reference | 27.7 |
| Model Context Protocol Specification | Reference | 27.7 |