Use Atlan AI for glossary management
Some capabilities shown here may require additional enablement or licensing. Contact your Atlan representative for details.
Before using Atlan AI for glossary management, your admin user must enable the Atlan AI Summary toggle in the Atlan AI section under Labs.
Atlan AI helps you manage and enhance your glossary by providing intelligent summaries, automated enrichment insights, and conversational search capabilities. Use Atlan AI to quickly understand glossary content, identify improvement opportunities, and explore metadata through natural language.
You can use Atlan AI for glossary management to:
- View AI-generated summaries for terms
- Identify which glossaries, categories, and terms were generated by Atlan AI
- Get enrichment insights that highlight missing descriptions, READMEs, or draft content
- Add descriptions and READMEs using AI assistance when gaps are detected
- Ask natural language questions about your glossary (Private Preview feature)
View AI-generated summaries
Atlan AI automatically generates intelligent summaries for your glossary assets, making it easier to understand key information without reading lengthy descriptions.
Every glossary, category, and term now includes an AI-generated overview that surfaces the most important information for faster metadata browsing.
To view AI-generated summaries:
- From the left menu on any screen, click Glossary.
- Navigate to any glossary, category, or term.
- In the asset overview, you'll see an AI-generated summary that highlights the most relevant information.
- The summary appears automatically when the 'Atlan AI Summary' toggle is enabled in Labs.
The AI summary provides a crisp overview that helps you quickly understand the asset's purpose and key details.
Identify AI-generated glossary content
Atlan AI can generate glossaries, categories, and terms as part of metadata enrichment flows. When a glossary, category, or term is created by Atlan AI, Atlan displays a distinctive AI icon so you can quickly recognize AI-generated content at a glance.
The AI icon variant reflects the asset's certificate status:
- Draft: the asset is a work in progress and hasn't been reviewed.
- Verified: the asset has been reviewed and verified.
- Deprecated: the asset is no longer in active use.
The AI indicator appears consistently wherever a glossary asset is surfaced in Atlan, including:
- The Glossary sidebar and tree view
- Term, category, and glossary profile pages and popovers
- Search results and asset listings
- Command search (the global quick search)
- Reporting, linked-term pills, and lineage views
To identify AI-generated glossary content:
- From the left menu on any screen, click Glossary.
- Browse your glossaries, categories, and terms.
- Look for the AI icon next to the asset name. Assets created by Atlan AI display the AI icon, while human-authored assets retain the standard glossary, category, or term icon.
The AI icon appears automatically for any glossary asset identified as AI-generated. No separate toggle is required to see it. If you move an AI-generated term to another glossary, it continues to display the AI icon.
Get automated enrichment insights
If you have edit permissions for a glossary, Atlan AI provides smart insights to help improve glossary completeness. These insights appear at an aggregate level and highlight areas that need attention.
Atlan AI analyzes your glossary and identifies:
- Assets missing descriptions
- Assets without READMEs
- Assets still in draft status
- Other completeness gaps that impact metadata quality
To view enrichment insights:
- From the left menu on any screen, click Glossary.
- Navigate to a glossary, category, or term where you have edit permissions.
- Look for enrichment insights in the AI summary section.
- Review the highlighted areas that need improvement.
When the Enrich Metadata Labs toggle is also enabled, you'll see contextual calls to action for detected gaps.
Add descriptions and READMEs with AI assistance
When metadata gaps are detected and both the 'Atlan AI Summary' and 'Enrich Metadata' toggles are enabled, Atlan AI provides contextual assistance for adding missing content.
Available AI-assisted actions include:
- Add Description with AI assistance: Generate relevant descriptions for glossary assets
- Add README using Atlan AI: Create comprehensive READMEs with AI support
To use AI assistance for enrichment:
- From the left menu on any screen, click Glossary.
- Navigate to an asset that shows enrichment insights.
- When gaps are detected, you'll see contextual buttons such as:
- Add Description with AI assistance
- Add README using Atlan AI
- Click the relevant button to generate AI-suggested content.
- Review, edit, and apply the AI-generated content as needed.
For detailed steps on adding descriptions and READMEs, see Use Atlan AI for documentation.
For full transparency, any changes made using Atlan AI are marked as Updated using Atlan AI in the activity log.
Explore with conversational search Private Preview
Conversational search for glossaries is available to customers in the Conversational AI Private Preview. If you're not part of the Private Preview but want to join, contact your Customer Success Manager.
For customers in the Conversational AI Private Preview, glossary assets surface suggested questions that you can ask in natural language. This copilot-like conversational experience helps you explore your metadata more intuitively.
When available, you'll see:
- Suggested questions related to your glossary content
- Natural language query capabilities
- Conversational responses that help you understand your metadata
To use conversational search within the Glossary:
- Navigate to any glossary, category, or term.
- Look for suggested questions in the AI interface.
- Click on a suggested question or type your own natural language query.
- Review the conversational response to better understand your glossary content.