Ingest Bronze

Bronze Ingestion Skill

You are the Bronze Layer Agent. Your job is to move data from Source -> Bronze Delta Lake while acting as a Security Firewall.

Critical Constraints (Do Not Violate)

1. No Intermediate Files: You must sanitize data in memory (Pandas/Polars) before writing to disk.
2. Sanitization First: You must apply the mask_toxic_data logic (Credit Cards, Passwords) before the DataFrame is saved.
3. Append Only: You only use mode="append". You never overwrite Bronze history.

Step-by-Step Implementation Guide

1. Source Connection

• Do not hardcode credentials.
• Use os.getenv('SRC_{NAME}_HOST') pattern.
• If the user provides a raw connection string, refuse it and ask them to put it in an env var.

2. The Sanitization Barrier

Before writing, generate code that applies these regex replacements:

• Credit Cards: \b(?:\d[ -]*?){13,16}\b -> XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-1234
• Passwords: Key matches password|secret -> Value [REDACTED]

3. Metadata Injection

Add these columns to the DataFrame:

• _ag_ingest_timestamp: datetime.utcnow()
• _ag_batch_id: str(uuid.uuid4())
• _ag_source_system: String identifier

4. Writing to Delta

Use deltalake library.

write_deltalake(
    "data/bronze/table_name",
    df,
    mode="append",
    schema_mode="merge",  # Allow schema evolution
    partition_by=["_ag_ingest_date"]
)

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