OpenMetadata MCP Server
Official OpenMetadata MCP: governed context and business semantics for AI assistants and agents.
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Known issues
230 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 12.
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[Feature] Fix hardcoded RoleBinding name in k8s-pipeline-rbac.yaml
In [./templates/k8s-pipeline-rbac.yaml], the RoleBinding for the OpenMetadata server uses a hardcoded name:
line 114 — current
name: openmetadata-server-pipeline-manager
This should use the Helm fullname helper to follow the naming convention used throughout the chart:
proposed fix
name: {{ include "OpenMetadata.fullname" . }}-server-pipeline-manager
The same fix should be applied to the Role name on line 69. This ensures the resource names are unique per Helm release and consistent with t
Read the thread · 2026-04-21 · open · external user · 6 comments
Metadata AI SDK Starter Templates / Recipes
The Metadata AI SDK (Java, Python, Node.js) is brand new. Create a collection of ready-to-run recipes and starter templates that showcase what's possible:
- A Python notebook that builds a "metadata health report" using the SDK
- Follow the “langchain” approach on the SDK that was done for Python, to other frameworks and languages.
- A LangChain agent template with OpenMetadata MCP tools pre-configured
Read the thread · 2026-03-20 · closed · outside contributor · 5 comments
Multi-MCP Agent Orchestrator
Combine the OpenMetadata MCP server with other MCP servers (e.g., the new Google Workspace CLI MCP, GitHub MCP, Slack MCP) to build an agent that can perform cross-platform workflows:
- "Find all tables that failed data quality checks last week, create a Google Sheet summary, and post it in the #data-quality Slack channel."
- "For every table tagged PII in the marketing domain, generate a data contract draft and save it as a Google Doc."
Read the thread · 2026-03-20 · closed · outside contributor · 11 comments
Conversational Data Catalog Chat App
Build a chat interface (web or terminal) that connects to the OpenMetadata MCP server and lets users interact with their data catalog in natural language. Think "ChatGPT for your metadata" — ask questions like "What tables feed the revenue dashboard?", "Who owns the customer table?", or "Show me PII-tagged columns in production."
Read the thread · 2026-03-19 · closed · outside contributor · 12 comments
MCP: remove demo "create-greeting" prompt from prompts.json
Affected module
MCP server (openmetadata-mcp)
Describe the bug
The file openmetadata-mcp/src/main/resources/json/data/mcp/prompts.json contains a demo prompt create-greeting that appears to be a leftover example from development. It is exposed to all MCP clients (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code Copilot, etc.) alongside the real search_metadata prompt.
{
"name": "create-greeting",
"description": "Generate a customized greeting message",
"arguments": [
{ "n
[Read the thread](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/issues/26528) · 2026-03-16 · closed · outside contributor · 6 comments
### Most recent
### [AI Context] Knowledge pills have no trust signals: Archived/Draft pills surface in AI bundles, and staleness detection is promised but never implemented
### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The AI Context Platform serves knowledge to agents through `get_asset_context` (Mode A) and `find_context` (Mode B). A bundle tells an agent *what* the organization knows, but nothing tells the agent *how much to trust it* — whether an item is still current, confirmed, or retired. Two concrete gaps:
**1. Archived and Draft pills flow into AI bundles.** `AIContextBuilder.toPillKnowledgeItem` (`openmetadata-service/src/main/java/
[Read the thread](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/issues/32260) · 2026-08-30 · open · external user · 0 comments
### MCP: unknown JSON-RPC method returns 500 instead of -32601
MCP stateless transport returns HTTP 500 and logs an error when a client sends an unknown JSON-RPC method (seen in production with `server/discover`).
- `DefaultMcpStatelessServerHandler` throws `McpError(METHOD_NOT_FOUND)`, which `HttpServletStatelessServerTransport.doPost` catches in its generic handler and turns into a 500 plus an error log.
- Per JSON-RPC, this should be HTTP 200 with error code `-32601`, and it should not be logged as a server error.
- Same path affects the `notifications/
[Read the thread](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/issues/32213) · 2026-08-28 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments
### MCP: create Knowledge Center articles through create_entity
Knowledge Center is in OSS now, but the MCP tool that creates articles only exists in Collate.
- Support Knowledge Center pages in the generic `create_entity` tool instead of porting a second create tool.
- Fix the knowledge page gaps that surface through it (parent resolution, create vs update authorization).
- Collate then removes `create_article`.
[Read the thread](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/issues/32198) · 2026-08-27 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments
### Merge MCP tools that do the same job
The MCP server ships 24 tools. Every tool definition is re-sent to the model on every single request, so the whole list is a per-call cost — and several of those tools do the same job as another one.
- **Nine of the 24 are creates that differ only in the entity type.** They run the same steps in the same order and differ only in which request class and mapper they use, but each ships its own full schema. Together they are a third of the tool list.
- **Two read the same asset the same way.** `ge
[Read the thread](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/issues/32076) · 2026-08-26 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments
### Fix data loss, wrong answers, and extra calls in MCP tools
The MCP tools lose data on writes, return answers that are wrong or incomplete, and cost more calls than they need to. Details below, grouped by what goes wrong.
## Writes are easy to get wrong
`patch_entity` is the only way to update an entity, and it takes a JSON Patch document the caller has to author.
- It cannot be written without reading the entity first: JSON Patch needs `add` when a field is absent and `replace` when it is present, and picking wrong is an error and a retry. So a one-f
[Read the thread](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/issues/32027) · 2026-08-25 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments
### MCP get_entity_lineage fails entity-scoped authorization for tag/domain-based policies
### Affected module
Authentication / Security
### Describe the bug
The MCP `get_entity_lineage` tool does not appear to evaluate entity-scoped authorization with the target entity context.
Policies based on entity metadata such as tags cannot correctly distinguish an allowed asset from a denied asset.
This is reproducible on OpenMetadata `1.13.4`.
In our setup, access is restricted using the following policy rule:
```text
Rule: DenyOutsideDemoDomain
Resource: All
Effect: Deny
Condition: !
[Read the thread](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/issues/31941) · 2026-08-24 · open · external user · 0 comments
### docs: vague MatchEnum description for ColumnValuesToBeInSet Test Case
### Documentation URL
https://docs.open-metadata.org/v1.12.x/how-to-guides/data-quality-observability/quality/tests-ui/column-tests#behavior-5
### Is some content missing, wrong or not clear?
The aforementioned page URL (and more specifically, its OM UI right hand side's counterpart) aren't clear in describing the behavior of MatchEnum=False flag. (Details below).
### Describe the solution you'd like
Excerpt from the slack discussion [here](https://openmetadata.slack.com/archives/C02B6955S4
[Read the thread](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/issues/31760) · 2026-08-19 · open · external user · 0 comments
[See all 24 reports Pod holds for OpenMetadata](/mcp/openmetadata/issues) — of 230 qualified upstream.
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