Atlan MCP

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that enables AI agents to access contextual metadata from external systems. It provides a consistent way for large language models and automation frameworks to retrieve the context they need to generate accurate and reliable results.

Atlan MCP is based on this standard and provides a reference implementation through the Atlan MCP server. The server acts as a secure bridge between Atlan's metadata platform and AI tools such as Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and Microsoft Copilot Studio. With Atlan MCP, you can search and discover assets, explore lineage, update metadata, manage classification tags and custom metadata, govern the asset lifecycle, create glossaries, enforce data quality, and more—all using real-time context from Atlan.

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Which Snowflake tables contain PII and feed the Revenue dashboard?

MCPsearch_assets

ARGS

{ "type": "Table",
  "tags": ["PII"] }

RESULT

{ "matched": 14 }

Found 14 PII-tagged tables in snowflake_prod. Three feed the Revenue dashboard: customer_pii, orders_enriched, subscriptions.

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Setup MCP

Connect Atlan's hosted MCP server to your AI client with OAuth or an API key — no infrastructure to run.

Use cases

Ready-to-run workflows for enrichment, governance, lineage, engineering, and automation.

MCP tools

The complete catalog of MCP tools — search, lineage, metadata, glossary, governance, and data quality.

Security

Authentication, authorization, data handling, tool controls, and audit logging for Atlan MCP.