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title: "Source Onboarding Review"
slug: "source-onboarding-review"
type: recipe
locale: en-US
canonical: "https://www.coremodels.io/recipe/airbyte/source-onboarding-review"
updatedAt: "2026-08-27T01:42:16+03:00"
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# Source Onboarding Review

Govern a new source at the door, before its first sync.

Airbyte is the point where schemas ENTER the organization. Import the discover-schema catalog of a source you are about to connect, and the recorded audit reviews its ingestion hygiene: streams without a primary key (stream-no-primary-key, dedup-dependent sync modes break silently), incremental-capable streams with no cursor configured (no-cursor-field), and object/array/untyped properties that would enter the warehouse ungoverned (untyped-fields). Declared enums become managed Taxonomies, so allowed values are governed from day one.

## Articles

- [Schema Changes Don't Knock: Why Airbyte Pipelines Need a Front Door](https://www.coremodels.io/connector/airbyte/h1-need)
- [The Quiet Week: Life With a Governed Airbyte Connection](https://www.coremodels.io/connector/airbyte/h2-outcomes)
- [Inside the Airbyte Connector: Identity, Types, Checks, and the Limits We Publish](https://www.coremodels.io/connector/airbyte/t5-deep-dive)