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Enrich Atlan through dbt

TL;DR

Beyond the default mapped [dbt Cloud](/apps/connectors/etl-tools/dbt/references/what-does-atlan-crawl-from-dbt-cloud) or [dbt Core](/apps/connectors/etl-tools/dbt/references/what-does-atlan-crawl-from-dbt-core) properties, you can update any of Atlan's metadata attributes (except for `name`, `tenantId`, and `qualifiedName`) through your dbt model's `meta` property.

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Atlan lets you push metadata into the catalog straight from your dbt models' meta property.

Beyond the default mapped dbt Cloud or dbt Core properties, you can update any of Atlan's metadata attributes (except for name, tenantId, and qualifiedName) through your dbt model's meta property.

For example, you can set: Announcements, atlan domains, certificates, custom metadata, descriptions, owners, atlan readme, tags, and terms on dbt assets and the assets that dbt materializes whenever applicable.

For more details on how to do these updates, including various examples, see the dbt tabs in the Common asset actions snippets of the developer documentation: