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hooks
3 registry resources · 3 tutorials · roadmap: Data Quality, Agentic Data Engineering, Reliability
What this topic covers
DE//AGENT currently lists 3 resources under hooks: 3 tutorials. 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:
- Attach the DQ suite to a pre-deploy trigger — via Gate promotion with a pre-deploy DQ check
- Promote only when critical tests pass on staged output — via Gate promotion with a pre-deploy DQ check
- Block promotion while keeping the previous production data — via Gate promotion with a pre-deploy DQ check
- 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
- Wire the two starter hooks every agent repo should have — via Hooks — deterministic gates around an agent
- Catch silent failures — hidden cost regressions and silently widened freshness SLAs — via Production gotchas — silent failures and partial writes
- Stop partial writes — no appends to recomputable partitions, no unguarded prod writes — via Production gotchas — silent failures and partial writes
1 more objectives live on the individual resource pages.
Where this fits in the learning roadmap
These resources map to stages: Data Quality (1), Agentic Data Engineering (1), Reliability (1). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gate promotion with a pre-deploy DQ check | Tutorial | intermediate | community | 34.15 |
| Hooks — deterministic gates around an agent | Tutorial | intermediate | community | 34.15 |
| Production gotchas — silent failures and partial writes | Tutorial | intermediate | community | 34.15 |
How scores are computed: source quality score.
Where to start
Highest composite score first:
- Gate promotion with a pre-deploy DQ check score 34.15 — intermediate
- Hooks — deterministic gates around an agent score 34.15 — intermediate
- Production gotchas — silent failures and partial writes score 34.15 — intermediate
Scores rank provenance, completeness and trust — read how verification works before adopting anything.
Production use cases
- Gate promotion with a pre-deploy DQ check — Wire the pre-deployment DQ check so a pipeline is only promoted when its quality suite passes against staged output. You attach the pre-deploy trigger, run dbt/GE tests on the stag… 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
- Production gotchas — silent failures and partial writes — The failures that become pages are the ones nobody was watching: a regression hiding in growth, a cron change that silently widens the freshness SLA, and appends that duplicate on … details
Further study
Adjacent topics: tutorial (3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gate promotion with a pre-deploy DQ check | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Hooks — deterministic gates around an agent | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Production gotchas — silent failures and partial writes | Tutorial | 34.15 |