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Notes on running agents on governed data.
Field notes and articles from our founder, Mayank Soam. Notes are first published on LinkedIn; articles are published here first.
From LinkedIn.
3 Oct 2026
The topic went quiet. The agent closed the books.
Late Kafka events landed after the load window, and the agent treated a quiet topic as a finished period. Watermarks with a grace period, a late-data SLA check before close, and a re-open path when late events arrive.
Data EngineeringAgentic AI
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4 Oct 2026
Column renamed in Snowflake.
When a schema changes, agent tools pinned to the old shape give confident, wrong answers. Data contracts on the tables agents read, tool schema version pins, and failing closed on mismatch.
Data GovernanceData Engineering
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3 Oct 2026
One agent. One “universal” role.
A cross-cloud job used the wrong credentials because one identity was reused across AWS, Azure and GCP. A per-cloud identity map, short-lived tokens only, and an allow-list of roles the agent may assume.
Agentic AIData Governance
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