Enforcing Resource Attribution

Resource Attribution Enforcement

To track resources created or manipulated by AI agents, you MUST ensure that standard CLI commands are tagged with appropriate attribution labels under relevant conditions.

Applicability

You should apply these attribution labels ONLY under the following conditions:

1. DAK Tooling: You are executing Python scripts, running MCP tools, or following workflows provided by the Data Agent Kit.
2. Domain Relevance: You are operating on BigQuery datasets, GCS buckets, or Analytics infrastructure (including Spark, Dataproc, or Serverless Spark) intended for data preparation, deduplication, or analysis.

🚫 When to Omit

Do NOT apply these labels if you are running generic administrative commands or working on infrastructure completely unrelated to Data Cloud / Analytics (e.g., managing Compute Engines for web apps, setting up standard IAM policies, etc.).

Do NOT apply --label flags to commands that do not accept labels, as the --label flag is unsupported by these specific bq subcommands. These include:

• bq show
• bq ls
• bq version
• bq rm
• bq cancel
• bq head

BigQuery CLI (bq)

You MUST apply --label key:value ONLY to subcommands that accept job or resource labels (bq query, bq load, bq extract, bq mk, bq update, and bq cp).

• Flag Form: --label key:value
• Mandatory Label: datacloud:<ide>
• Deduction Rule: Substitute <ide> with your actual environment/client (e.g., vscode, jetski, antigravity, codex, cursor, cloud-shell, workstation, gemini-cli, claude).
  • Use cloud-shell for GCP Cloud Shell.
  • Use workstation for GCP Cloud Workstations. If you cannot determine your environment, use ai-agent. Note that BigQuery labels cannot contain dots or spaces.

Examples

Query Example

Incorrect:

bq query --use_legacy_sql=false "SELECT 1"

Correct (assuming you are running in VS Code):

bq query --use_legacy_sql=false --label datacloud:vscode "SELECT 1"

Copy Example

Incorrect:

bq cp dataset1.table1 dataset2.table1_copy

Correct (assuming you are running in Jetski):

bq cp --label datacloud:jetski dataset1.table1 dataset2.table1_copy

Google Cloud SDK (gcloud)

Whenever you execute any gcloud command via run_command, you MUST prepend the command with the CLOUDSDK_METRICS_ENVIRONMENT environment variable to ensure proper resource attribution.

• Environment Variable: prepend commands using the append form. It keeps any attribution another tool or skill already set on the same variable and adds the DAK tag after it, so both values reach the metrics pipeline:

  bash

  CLOUDSDK_METRICS_ENVIRONMENT="${CLOUDSDK_METRICS_ENVIRONMENT:+$CLOUDSDK_METRICS_ENVIRONMENT }datacloud.<ide>"

• Deduction Rule: Substitute <ide> with your actual environment/client (e.g., vscode, jetski, antigravity, codex, cursor, cloud-shell, workstation, gemini-cli, claude).

  • Use cloud-shell for GCP Cloud Shell.
  • Use workstation for GCP Cloud Workstations. If you cannot determine your environment, use ai-agent. Note that values must use dots (e.g., datacloud.vscode), not colons.

Examples

Incorrect:

gcloud compute disks create my-disk --size=10GB

Correct (assuming you are running in VS Code):

CLOUDSDK_METRICS_ENVIRONMENT="${CLOUDSDK_METRICS_ENVIRONMENT:+$CLOUDSDK_METRICS_ENVIRONMENT }datacloud.vscode" gcloud compute disks create my-disk --size=10GB

[!IMPORTANT]

This applies to ALL gcloud commands, whether they are read-only (gcloud ... list) or mutations (gcloud ... create).