Openmetadata MCP server
OpenMetadata MCP — metadata, lineage, search, data quality, OM 1.12+ Data Contracts
0 stars61 downloads/wk
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Openmetadata tools
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Public scan report
scanner v0.1.9 · 2026-09-26 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
- Code scan78 source files scanned25/25
- –Live reliabilityno gateway calls yet and no remote to proben/a
- –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (local package is not executed); not countedn/a
- Auth qualitystatic API keys via environment variables6/15
- Maintenancelast push 79 days ago12/15
- Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year9/10
How Openmetadata compares
Against every graded Web search MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 80/100
- higher than 65% of 3,472 Web search servers
- Downloads a week
- 61
- more than 45% of 816 Web search servers with a package
Install Openmetadata in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
Runs npx -y @us-all/openmetadata-mcp on your machine. Read the scan report first; the gateway never runs local packages.
claude mcp add openmetadata -- npx -y @us-all/openmetadata-mcp
What the publisher says
From the Openmetadata repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
OpenMetadata MCP Server
The OpenMetadata MCP that ships full CRUD across every entity type — including OM 1.12+ Data Contracts, Metrics, Search Index, API Collections, and API Endpoints that the embedded MCP doesn't cover yet.
172 tools, 4 workflow Prompts (lineage impact / DQ investigation / glossary bootstrap / owner reassign), 7 MCP Resources, and aggregations like lineage-impact (downstream blast-radius w/ owner notification list), quality-rollup (DQ status across a scope), and official Data Contract validation.
What it does that others don't
- OM 1.12+ entity coverage — Data Contracts, Metrics, Search Index, API Collections, API Endpoints, plus native contract validation/result retrieval. Not in the embedded MCP yet.
- Aggregation tools — lineage-impact answers "what breaks if I change/drop X?" by walking lineage + counting consumers + breaking down by entity type + resolving the owner union for change-mgmt notifications, in one call. get-domain-summary returns domain + 6 child entity types via /search/query with tracktotalhits in one call instead of 7 sequential. get-table-summary folds table + lineage + sample-data + DQ similarly.
- Semantic search — semantic-search over OM 1.12+ vector index (POST /search/vector/query). Useful when keyword search misses synonyms.
- MCP Prompts (4) — lineage-impact-analysis, data-quality-investigation, glossary-term-bootstrap, owner-change-propagation. Workflow templates the model invokes directly.
- MCP Resources (7) — om://table/{fqn}, om://glossary-term/{fqn}, om://lineage/{type}/{fqn}, om://search/{query}, om://dashboard/{fqn}, om://pipeline/{fqn}, om://schema/{fqn}.
- Token-efficient by design — extractFields projection on 28 read tools (drops changeDescription/version/updatedBy/href noise — ~80% size reduction), OMTOOLS/OMDISABLE category toggles, search-tools meta-tool.
- Apps SDK card — lineage-impact renders as a blast-radius card on ChatGPT clients (downstream/upstream counts + type breakdown + top consumers + owners-to-notify) via _meta["openai/outputTemplate"]. Claude clients receive the same JSON content.
- stdio + Streamable HTTP — defaults to stdio. Set MCPTRANSPORT=http for ChatGPT Apps SDK or remote clients (Bearer auth via MCPHTTP_TOKEN).
Try this — 5 prompts
Connect the server to Claude Desktop or Claude Code, then paste any of these:
- Lineage impact — "The payments.transactions table is being deprecated. List every dashboard, pipeline, and ML model that depends on it (upstream + downstream, depth 3)."
- Data quality investigation — "Show all failing test cases from the last 7 days. Group by table, then by test type, with pass/fail counts."
- Glossary bootstrap — "Create a payments glossary with these 8 terms: chargeback, refund, settlement, KYC, AML, transaction, customer-id, payment-method. Link related terms."
- Owner reassign — "User taehee is leaving. List every entity (table/dashboard/pipeline/ML model) where they are owner. Then reassign all of them to team data-platform."
- Domain summary — "Summarize the analytics domain: total tables/dashboards/pipelines/ML models, top 5 by recent updates, and the data products it owns."
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Openmetadata: common questions
- Is Openmetadata MCP server safe?
- Mostly: it is graded B (80/100). Read the Openmetadata safety report
- How do I install Openmetadata?
- It runs on your machine. Copy the Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop config from the install section.
- Does Openmetadata need an API key?
- Yes. The registry entry asks for
OPENMETADATA_TOKEN. - Is Openmetadata maintained?
- The last commit was 115 days ago (2026-07-10). The latest release is v1.16.10.
- What can I use instead of Openmetadata?
- Servers from other publishers that do the same job: GitHits MCP server, Zotero MCP server and Calibre MCP server.
- How does Openmetadata compare with other Web search MCP servers?
- safety score 80/100 (higher than 65% of 3,472 Web search servers); downloads a week 61 (more than 45% of 816 Web search servers with a package). Full comparison.
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