Summary

CDK 7.23.7 broke every published manifest-only connector that bundles a components.py, in any environment that does not set AIRBYTE_ENABLE_UNSAFE_CODE=true — including Airbyte Cloud. spec still works, but check, discover, and read all fail immediately with:

airbyte_cdk.sources.declarative.parsers.custom_code_compiler.AirbyteCustomCodeNotPermittedError:
Custom connector code is not permitted in this environment.

Root cause

#1076 added an unconditional gate in ModelToComponentFactory.create_custom_component:

if not custom_code_execution_permitted():
    raise AirbyteCustomCodeNotPermittedError

Before that change, the AIRBYTE_ENABLE_UNSAFE_CODE gate applied only to components.py code injected through the config (__injected_components_py), i.e. untrusted, user-supplied code from Connector Builder / a remote manifest. Code baked into a published connector image was trusted.

The new gate does not distinguish provenance, so a manifest-only connector shipping its own manifest.yaml + components.py inside its own image is now rejected too.

Impact

Any manifest-only connector whose manifest references a Custom* component. In the monorepo, 56 connectors bundle a components.py; 4 are already published on base image source-declarative-manifest:7.23.7 and are broken in Cloud today:

• source-chargebee (0.10.41)
• source-bing-ads
• source-greenhouse
• source-apify-dataset

27 more are on 7.23.6 and will break on their next automated dependency bump.

Example failure (source-chargebee 0.10.41, whose manifest uses CustomTransformation -> source_declarative_manifest.components.CustomFieldTransformation on ~27 streams):

File ".../parsers/model_to_component_factory.py", line 2108, in create_default_stream
    self._create_component_from_model(model=transformation_model, config=config)
File ".../parsers/model_to_component_factory.py", line 1822, in create_custom_component
    raise AirbyteCustomCodeNotPermittedError

Downstream destinations then fail with Input was fully read, but some streams did not receive a terminal stream status message, which obscures the real cause.

Proposed fix

Restore the provenance distinction: apply the gate only when the manifest itself came from the config (__injected_declarative_manifest present), which is the untrusted case that PR #1076 set out to protect. Image-bundled manifests keep working without AIRBYTE_ENABLE_UNSAFE_CODE.

Affected connectors additionally need a rebuild onto the fixed CDK release once it ships.

Filed by Devin at the request of Syed Khadeer (syed.khadeer@airbyte.io) while triaging a broken production Chargebee -> BigQuery connection.

Devin session