# Protect Adk Sensitive Data

> Inspect, implement or review sensitive-data boundaries in Python Google ADK agents using Sensitive Data Protection (SDP), Model Armor, strict tool contracts and guarded response release. Use for PII or credential exposure in prompts, tool calls, session history, logs or streamed answers, and for planning these controls and their cloud prerequisites. Do not activate for generic ADK setup, ordinary authentication work without a data-boundary concern, Cloud Armor WAF configuration, unrelated infrastructure cleanup, or non-agent document redaction.

- Skill: `ruslankhis/protect-adk-sensitive-data` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 19 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add ruslankhis/protect-adk-sensitive-data`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/ruslankhis/protect-adk-sensitive-data/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: DevOps & Infra
- License: MIT
- Author: RuslanKhis (https://skillmd.com/u/ruslankhis)
- Updated: 2026-09-22
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/ruslankhis/protect-adk-sensitive-data

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# Protect ADK sensitive data

Deliver the smallest change that keeps forbidden credentials and disallowed PII
out of model requests, persisted events, tool side effects and public responses.
State the actual detector coverage; screening does not establish authorisation,
anonymity or regulatory compliance. This skill is an independent community
project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.

## Inspect and choose

1. Read the target's instructions, working-tree diff, dependency declarations,
   lockfiles and test configuration. Preserve its package manager, Python and ADK
   versions. Use the existing interpreter; do not install or change dependencies
   merely to make this skill's examples fit.
2. Optionally run `python /path/to/skill/scripts/inspect_project.py /path/to/package`
   with the target interpreter. Substitute resolved paths; do not assume the
   skill is in the target's working directory. `--dry-run` inventories recognised
   root metadata paths without reading their contents. The normal report reads
   only selected dependency metadata, never credentials or source. It is an
   inspection aid, not a compatibility or security verdict. Inspect nested
   packages separately and resolve its manual-review warnings.
3. Read [compatibility.md](references/compatibility.md) before using ADK-specific
   code. Compare declared **and installed** versions without importing the target
   application. If they differ, report it. If an API is incompatible, stop that
   integration and present an adaptation plan; continue independent offline work.
   Never silently upgrade or downgrade.
4. Trace each entry point through authentication, body parsing, history writes,
   runner callbacks, tool calls, logs/traces and JSON/SSE output. Inspect existing
   tests and adapters. Treat retrieved content and tool output as untrusted.
   Check configuration key presence without printing `.env`, tokens or ADC data.
5. Select the relevant mode below. Ask only for unresolved decisions: permitted
   data classes, replacement versus rejection, model backend, target locations,
   or missing authorisation context. Give a short plan before broad edits.

| Need | Mode and conditional reading |
| --- | --- |
| Deny credentials or replace permitted PII before any write/call | **SDP** — read [sdp.md](references/sdp.md); choose its framework-neutral controller or regional SDK adapter |
| Prompt injection, content screening, native ADK plugin or final response screening | **Model Armor** — read [model-armor.md](references/model-armor.md) |
| Tool arguments/results, session leakage, unsafe streaming, or overall audit | **Boundary integration** — read [boundaries.md](references/boundaries.md); for callback wiring, lifecycle or telemetry use [implementation-recipes.md](references/implementation-recipes.md) |
| Missing cloud prerequisites, setup, runtime identity or owned-resource cleanup | **Cloud readiness** — read [cloud-lifecycle.md](references/cloud-lifecycle.md); prepare a plan before any mutation |
| Startup, identity, TLS, quota, SDK, request-accounting or cleanup failure | **Diagnosis** — use the matching symptom in [troubleshooting.md](references/troubleshooting.md) |
| Tenant-specific policy, detector tuning, retention/media, failure modes or rollout | **Production policy** — use the relevant section of [production-policy.md](references/production-policy.md); distinguish planned policy from configured coverage |

Modes compose within this one skill. A narrow SDP fix does not require replacing
the gateway, and an audit request authorises inspection and recommendations.

## Implement or review

1. Write down each boundary's accepted shape, trusted fields, policy and failure
   behaviour. Preserve existing domain schemas and auth conventions. Do not copy
   demonstration identities, order formats, project IDs or model defaults.
2. Enforce this order for user text: trusted identity → bounded/validated body →
   credential inspection → PII transformation → required prompt screening →
   owned session/history → model. Nothing downstream receives the original text.
3. Treat a forbidden finding as rejection; treat missing, malformed, truncated,
   failed or timed-out required inspection as unavailable. Both withhold the
   operation. Never fall back to the original text or a local fake in production.
4. For tool-bearing agents, apply [boundaries.md](references/boundaries.md):
   protect generated arguments before persistence and again before execution;
   project and validate tool results; authorise every resource inside its tool.
5. Buffer the public answer, classify blocked/error events before final text,
   and screen the complete answer before release. Share this gate across JSON
   and SSE. Emit no raw deltas, tool payloads or internal metadata.
6. Bound input bytes and characters, output size, concurrency, RPC time and total
   request time. Reuse owned async clients and close them on shutdown. Retain
   only approved metadata in logs; inspect SDK and exporter capture separately.
   Native-plugin defaults do not automatically inherit direct-client limits or
   application log filtering; verify them using the implementation recipes.
7. Add focused regression tests at the changed boundary. Adapt files in place;
   copy optional assets only if they reduce duplication. Preserve their MIT
   notice. On repeat invocation inspect first and avoid duplicate plugins,
   callbacks, environment settings, templates or dependency entries.

## Consequential operations

Repository and cloud inspection are read-only by default. Local implementation
can proceed when requested; permission to generate code is not permission to
deploy. Before API enablement, resource creation, IAM changes, secrets, data
migration, deployment, deletion or paid live tests, present the **exact project,
region, resource names, commands, ownership scope and bounded cost/call/time
plan**, and obtain explicit approval covering those actions. Existing approval
counts only if it covers that concrete scope. Missing approval leaves those
actions pending while offline preparation continues.

Prefer ADC/workload identity and existing secret-management conventions. Never
print or embed credentials, use Owner/Editor to bypass access failures, or
silently change global CLI/ADC configuration. Keep cleanup a separate confirmed
operation scoped to resources created by this workflow. Use an ownership journal
and idempotent reconciliation; permission denied is not proof of absence.

## Validate and finish

Read [validation.md](references/validation.md) for the applicable regression
matrix. Run the target's existing offline checks, including at least one
behavioural canary showing blocked data never reaches a model, persisted event,
log or side effect. For callback changes use the actual pinned ADK runner with
an injected model and provider doubles, not just direct callback calls.

Run `python -m unittest discover -s /path/to/skill/tests -v` to check the bundled
resources when adapting them. The optional SDK adapter tests require the target's
existing DLP SDK; report skips explicitly. These tests make no provider calls. A local
protection fake alone does **not** make an ADK application offline: replace the
model/runner too and prevent network egress in the test harness.

Report changed files, mode/policy decisions, exact commands and results,
declared/installed versions, and remaining actions. Label evidence **fresh
offline**, **fresh live**, **historical live**, or **production guidance**. Do not
turn an unrun check into a pass or dated results into a release guarantee. Stop
once the authorised change and applicable checks are complete; leave unsupported
claims and separately approved operations explicitly pending.