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Data schema change review agent blueprint.

Classify a schema change, compare compatibility and quality expectations, and prepare a versioned rollout decision.

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01 · the contract

Start from a bounded job, not a blank chat box.

trigger

A producer proposes a table, event, or file-schema change.

owner

data owner

agent stops at

Producer and consumer owners approve compatibility, versioning, backfill, and rollout.

KPI · increase

schema changes with consumer sign-off (percent). Measure material schema changes approved by every identified critical consumer.

inputs

Evidence the run may read

  • Current and proposed schema
  • Producer and consumer contracts
  • Backfill, retention, and rollout plan
outputs

Artifacts the run must produce

  • Semantic schema diff
  • Compatibility and data-quality risks
  • Version and rollout recommendation
02 · topology

Small specialists. Named handoffs. One accountable decision.

Each stage produces an artifact another stage can inspect. The final node is a person, not an autonomous write to an external system.

  1. 01

    intake

    Validate and normalize the data schema change review inputs.

  2. 02

    schema differ

    Produce the semantic schema diff.

  3. 03

    consumer contract analyst

    Produce the compatibility and data-quality risks.

  4. 04

    data contract reviewer

    Challenge the data schema change review result and prepare an approval packet.

  5. 05

    data owner

    Producer and consumer owners approve compatibility, versioning, backfill, and rollout.

intakevalidated input packetschema-differ
schema-differSemantic schema diffconsumer-contract-analyst
consumer-contract-analystCompatibility and data-quality risksdata-contract-reviewer
data-contract-reviewerapproval packet with evidence referenceshuman-approver
03 · authority

Grant the run only what this case needs.

Source material is read-only. Drafts land in a case-specific output path. Tools may read or propose; the human gate owns the external write.

read

case inputs

workspace/data/schema-change-review/inputs/**

Read only the evidence attached to this workflow instance.

write-output

case outputs

workspace/data/schema-change-review/outputs/**

Write drafts and evidence artifacts without modifying source records.

invoke-scoped-tool

approved tools

data:schema-change-review:read-or-propose

Invoke only tools explicitly granted for this run; external writes remain gated.

required human decision

Producer and consumer owners approve compatibility, versioning, backfill, and rollout.

Decision owner: data owner.

04 · implementation

A private, bounded starting manifest.

The blueprint starts private, caps its DAG, disables replanning, and exposes no public endpoint. Add only the tools and data adapters this workflow has approved.

a2a.yamlsafe starting point
name: data-schema-change-review
version: 0.1.0
entrypoint: agent:BlueprintAgent
expose:
  public: false
composition:
  planning: deterministic_dag
  max_nodes: 6
  max_parallel: 1
  max_replans: 0
05 · acceptance test

Pass only with evidence.

  1. 01

    Evidence traceability

    Every material conclusion cites an input artifact or a scoped tool result from this run.

  2. 02

    Breaking, additive, semantic, and documentation changes are separated and tied to affected consumers.

    Breaking, additive, semantic, and documentation changes are separated and tied to affected consumers.

  3. 03

    Approval boundary

    The run stops at a proposal and records the human decision before any external side effect.

failure containment

Stop small. Preserve the evidence.

Deployed behavior, consumer contract, historical data treatment, or migration evidence is incomplete.

Containment: Return a partial result with unresolved items; do not broaden scope or perform an external write.

Operator: Attach the missing evidence, narrow the brief, or explicitly approve a new scoped run.

A required input or tool grant is unavailable.

Containment: Stop the affected branch and preserve completed artifacts in the case output workspace.

Operator: Grant only the missing resource or continue with that branch marked out of scope.

06 · proof

Sign the run facts. Keep money in the billing ledger.

Current platform receipts sign caller identity or classification, skill, bounded input evidence, verified grant IDs when present, outcome or result preview, and timing. Optional file, tool, artifact, handoff, evaluation, and review fields require separate instrumentation and are not populated by default. Price, fees, payouts, and later human approvals remain separate platform records.

The example uses only fields populated by the current platform sealing paths. It is illustrative, not a record of a real customer run.

ExecutionReceipt · selected fieldsEd25519 token
{
  "receipt_id": "rcpt_01J...",
  "schema_version": 1,
  "agent_name": "data-schema-change-review",
  "caller": "user:workflow-owner",
  "task_id": "case_schema_change_review",
  "skill_name": "schema_change_review",
  "input_hash": "4d7c...9a2f",
  "grant_ids": [
    "grt_case_inputs",
    "grt_tool_propose"
  ],
  "status": "ok",
  "result_preview": "Output prepared: Semantic schema diff. Human decision remains separate.",
  "elapsed_ms": 4218
}
put the pattern to work

Start private. Scope the authority. Require the decision.

Deploy the workflow as a bounded internal agent, verify its outputs and the receipt fields actually emitted, then expand only the scopes your acceptance test proves it needs.