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What is marmot?

Marmot helps teams discover, understand, and leverage their data with powerful search and lineage visualisation tools. It's designed to make data accessible for everyone.

How to use marmot?

1. Install a compatible MCP client (like Claude Desktop). 2. Open your configuration settings. 3. Add marmot using the following command: npx @modelcontextprotocol/marmot 4. Restart the client and verify the new tools are active.
šŸ›”ļø Scoped (Restricted)
npx @modelcontextprotocol/marmot --scope restricted
šŸ”“ Unrestricted Access
npx @modelcontextprotocol/marmot

Key Features

Native MCP Protocol Support
Real-time Tool Activation & Execution
Verified High-performance Implementation
Secure Resource & Context Handling

Optimized Use Cases

Extending AI models with custom local capabilities
Automating system workflows via natural language
Connecting external data sources to LLM context windows

marmot FAQ

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Is marmot safe?

Yes, marmot follows the standardized Model Context Protocol security patterns and only executes tools with explicit user-granted permissions.

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Is marmot up to date?

marmot is currently active in the registry with 528 stars on GitHub, indicating its reliability and community support.

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Are there any limits for marmot?

Usage limits depend on the specific implementation of the MCP server and your system resources. Refer to the official documentation below for technical details.

Official Documentation

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Marmot

Discover any data asset in seconds. Then let your AI do the same.

The open-source context layer for your AI. Catalog your tables, topics, queues and APIs then expose real metadata to your AI agents.

Documentation ā€¢ Live Demo ā€¢ Deploy ā€¢ Community

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What is Marmot?

Marmot is an open-source data catalog for teams who want powerful data discovery without enterprise complexity. Catalog every data asset, enrich it with the context that matters and make it accessible to your team and your AI tools.

Unlike traditional catalogs that require extensive infrastructure and configuration, Marmot ships as a single binary with an intuitive UI, making it easy to deploy and start cataloging in minutes.

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Features

  • Search everything: Find any data asset in seconds with full-text search plus structured queries, boolean logic and metadata filters.
  • Interactive lineage: Trace data flows from source to destination and analyse impact before making changes.
  • Metadata-first: Store rich metadata for any asset type, from tables and topics to APIs and dashboards.
  • Team collaboration: Assign ownership, document business context and maintain shared glossaries.
  • AI-ready: Expose certified context through MCP, the API and the UI.
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Deploy

New to Marmot? Follow the Deploy documentation for a guided setup, or try the live demo.

Development

See Local Development for how to get started developing locally.

Community

Join our Discord community for help, feedback and updates on new features.

Contributing

All types of contributions are encouraged and valued!

  • Report bugs or suggest features via GitHub Issues
  • Improve documentation
  • Build new plugins for data sources

Before contributing, please check out the Contributing Guide.

License

Marmot is open-source software licensed under the MIT License.

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Manual Config

{ "mcpServers": { "marmot": { "command": "npx", "args": ["marmot"] } } }