# Marmot Data Catalog MCP Server

Open-source data catalog. Search assets, explore lineage, and find ownership.

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## Status

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## Connect

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## Known issues

**6 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 5.

### Most discussed

### OIDC Keycloak support

Hey, me again.

Do you plan to support OIDC via Keycloak or is there already an config option to support other OIDC Providers than the documented one?

I also searched through the code but only found support for the once mentioned in the docs.

Cheers
Justin

[Read the thread](https://github.com/marmotdata/marmot/issues/65) · 2026-02-11 · closed · external user · 16 comments

### Accept external OIDC tokens (Auth0/Keycloak/Okta/...) in the API & MCP WithAuth middleware

### Problem

  Marmot currently accepts three credential types on its API (and therefore on the MCP endpoint at `/api/v1/mcp`, which uses the same `WithAuth` middleware in [`internal/api/v1/common/middleware.go`](https://github.com/marmotdata/marmot/blob/main/internal/api/v1/common/middleware.go)):

  1. `X-API-Key: <key>` — a Marmot-issued API key
  2. `Authorization: Bearer <jwt>` where the JWT is **Marmot-issued** (HS256, validated against the internal signing key in
  [`internal/core/auth/se

[Read the thread](https://github.com/marmotdata/marmot/issues/84) · 2026-04-27 · open · external user · 2 comments

### Support untrusted Certs for custom OIDC Providers

As mentioned in #65 it would be quiet useful to support insecure tls certificates for OIDC. Keycloak instances with self-signed certs are currently not able to be used as OIDC Provider

[Read the thread](https://github.com/marmotdata/marmot/issues/71) · 2026-02-24 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### MCP tools for notifications

It would be nice if we can generate a notification summary using an MCP Tool. We can use them in Slack or other channels to get a notification summary in the future using a marmot bot etc. WDYT?

[Read the thread](https://github.com/marmotdata/marmot/issues/68) · 2026-02-11 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment

### add support for OpenAPI

We should be able to create assets from OpenAPI files

[Read the thread](https://github.com/marmotdata/marmot/issues/12) · 2025-04-04 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 6 reports Pod holds for Marmot Data Catalog](/mcp/marmot-data-catalog/issues).

## Firsthand observations

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