MCP100 Assessment

Editorial verdict

Official hosted Atlan MCP server that exposes governed catalog/search/lineage and supported curation workflows under existing Atlan permissions. Capabilities: Search Atlan catalog assets; Inspect lineage and governed metadata; Use catalog context for supported SQL/data workflows; Perform supported metadata curation when the account is authorized

Reviewed September 13, 2026

Task Fit

Mapped

Working with structured data

Trust

Status warning

maintenance_source_health; client_coverage; tool_contract; install_supply_chain; advisory_freshness; adoption_evidence_presence

Maintenance

Recheck needed

The source snapshot needs another refresh before maintenance can be interpreted.

Popularity

Signals unavailable

No independently comparable adoption metric is currently stored.

Best for

Atlan customers who want governed catalog search, lineage, SQL/context and metadata curation under existing Atlan permissions.

Not ideal for

Organizations without clearly governed Atlan roles/personas or that cannot expose catalog metadata to an external AI client.

Avoid if

Do not use an over-privileged service-account/persona when a narrower user role can satisfy the workflow.

Trade-offs

Promising signal, but it ranks below the current Selected/Watchlist admission cohort on maturity, uniqueness, publisher trust, security clarity, or MCP-native evidence.

Evidence scope

Evidence

Stale source snapshot - recheck needed

Popularity

No MCP-specific repository metric is stored

No MCP-specific package metric is stored

Stars observation date unavailable · Downloads observation date unavailable

No exact public repository is documented.

No exact package is documented.

Maintenance

Publisher activity observed September 13, 2026

Stale source snapshot - recheck needed

Trust review

Source relationship: First-party MCP

Reviewed September 13, 2026

Evidence source 1 ↗Evidence source 2 ↗

Evidence-backed setup

Install & Agents

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Claude Code

Transport not recorded

Publisher documented

OAuth: `claude mcp add --transport http atlan-oauth https://mcp.atlan.com/mcp`; then `/mcp` and complete OAuth. API-key alternative uses the official `claude mcp add-json` HTTP config with `Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>`.

The publisher provides client-specific setup instructions.

Verify safely: Atlan docs: start Claude Code, run `/mcp`, complete OAuth if prompted, and confirm the server is connected.

Uninstall and revoke

Claude Code: `claude mcp remove <name>`; also revoke OAuth/device/API credentials in the vendor account when the vendor provides such a control.

Evidence & methodology

Publisher-documented setup is not the same as MCP100 execution testing. “MCP100 logic checked” means the stored configuration shape was reviewed, not that third-party MCP software was run.

Evidence checked 2026-09-20T00:00:00.000Z

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Publisher-documented clients

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These names appear in the publisher's installation documentation. MCP100-verified configurations are shown separately above when available.

Set up 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.

Looking for Atlan docs over MCP?

Atlan docs over MCP is a separate, documentation-specific tool that gives AI clients (Claude, Cursor, Copilot) access to Atlan's docs site—so they can answer setup questions, look up connector requirements, and fetch exact page content. It's not a way to interact with Atlan as a context layer.

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OAuth: `claude mcp add --transport http atlan-oauth https://mcp.atlan.com/mcp`; then `/mcp` and complete OAuth. API-key alternative uses the official `claude mcp add-json` HTTP config with `Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>`.

Capability

What it does

Official hosted Atlan MCP server that exposes governed catalog/search/lineage and supported curation workflows under existing Atlan permissions. Capabilities: Search Atlan catalog assets; Inspect lineage and governed metadata; Use catalog context for supported SQL/data workflows; Perform supported metadata curation when the account is authorized

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Representative uses

Atlan customers who want governed catalog search, lineage, SQL/context and metadata curation under existing Atlan permissions.

Important limits

Organizations without clearly governed Atlan roles/personas or that cannot expose catalog metadata to an external AI client.

Context Footprint

Not measured yet

Estimated token footprint of the MCP tool schemas exposed to the agent.

Reviewed access

Access & risk

Review the exact access boundary before connecting this MCP to accounts, credentials, or sensitive data.

Authentication: Publisher supports authenticated tenant access via OAuth and supported API/service tokens.
Permissions: Inherits Atlan persona/role/domain permissions; service-account tokens are tied to a defined persona according to publisher docs.
Data handling: Atlan states MCP retrieval is real-time without an intermediate MCP cache and that MCP itself does not send customer data to an LLM; the connected AI client/provider still receives whatever tool results the user sends into that conversation.
Cost: Atlan plan/entitlement and AI-provider costs apply.
Risk and cautions: Sensitive enterprise metadata and any authorized curation writes remain the key governance concerns.

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Official Docs

Original product, capability, tool, and usage documentation from the MCP publisher. Installation sections appear under Install & Agents.

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Atlan MCP is a hosted server that lets AI clients (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot) and automation platforms (Python, n8n, LangChain) use Atlan as a context layer through the Model Context Protocol.

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Atlan is the context layer for enterprise AI. Atlan MCP connects your AI tools—Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Copilot, and more—to your organization's context repos: the knowledge, data, and semantics your AI agents need to answer accurately.

Use Atlan's agent skills to search and discover enterprise context, traverse end-to-end lineage, access governed data definitions and glossaries, execute SQL, curate your metadata graph, and ensure data quality—so every question you ask is grounded in trusted organizational context.

It's a hosted server, available on every Atlan tenant with nothing to install, and every action respects the permissions you've already set in Atlan. Atlan MCP implements the openModel Context Protocol, so any MCP-aware client can connect.

Claude · Atlan MCP

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Which Snowflake tables contain PII and feed the Revenue dashboard?

MCP search_assets

ARGS

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

RESULT

{ "matched": 14 }

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

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