Mandatory Step 0 pre-flight execution order and authentication verification for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Application Default Credentials (ADC), gcloud CLI, Spark, Dataproc, BigQuery, GCS, and notebook runtimes. Use whenever interacting with GCP resources, running Spark/PySpark pipelines, BigQuery queries, GCS paths (gs://), or creating/running notebooks.
Install
npx skills add GoogleCloudPlatform/data-agent-kit-plugin --skill google-cloud-auth-verificationnpx skills add GoogleCloudPlatform/data-agent-kit-plugin --skill google-cloud-auth-verification -a claude-code -gnpx skills add GoogleCloudPlatform/data-agent-kit-plugin --skill google-cloud-auth-verification -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/data-agent-kit-plugin.git --path skills/google-cloud-auth-verificationgh skill install GoogleCloudPlatform/data-agent-kit-plugin google-cloud-auth-verificationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/data-agent-kit-plugin /tmp/GoogleCloudPlatform__data-agent-kit-plugin
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/GoogleCloudPlatform__data-agent-kit-plugin/skills/google-cloud-auth-verification ~/.claude/skills/google-cloud-auth-verification # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/GoogleCloudPlatform__data-agent-kit-plugin/skills/google-cloud-auth-verification ~/.agents/skills/google-cloud-auth-verification # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode