2026-06-17 - BigQuery Tool Restricted to SELECT Statements Only¶
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AgileData.io - Safe by Design: BigQuery Tool Now Enforces Read-Only Queries
A guardrail has been added to AgileData’s BigQuery tool — the tool used by AI agents (including ADI) to query your data — that prevents any statement other than a SELECT from being executed. This means INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, DROP, and other data-modifying statements cannot be run through the tool, regardless of what an agent might generate.
This is an important safety boundary. AI agents are powerful assistants, but their access to your underlying data infrastructure should be read-only by default. The guardrail ensures that even if an agent generates an unexpected or malformed query, it cannot modify or delete your data.
What’s New:
BigQuery tool now validates that only SELECT statements can be executed
All non-SELECT statements (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, DROP, etc.) are blocked at the tool level
What this means for you:
AI agents cannot modify your BigQuery data, even inadvertently
Read-only access enforced at the infrastructure level, not just by convention
Safer AI-assisted data exploration with a clear security boundary in place
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Doc Refreshed: 2026-06-17