Skip to main content

DataHub Agent Context - MCP Tools for AI Agents

Project description

DataHub Agent Context

DataHub Agent Context provides a collection of tools and utilities for building AI agents that interact with DataHub metadata. This package contains MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools that enable AI agents to search, retrieve, and manipulate metadata in DataHub. These can be used directly to create an agent, or be included in an MCP server such as Datahub's open source MCP server.

Features

Installation

Base Installation

python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools
python3 -m pip install --upgrade datahub-agent-context

With LangChain Support

For building LangChain agents with pre-built tools:

python3 -m pip install --upgrade "datahub-agent-context[langchain]"

Prerequisites

This package requires:

  • Python 3.9 or higher
  • acryl-datahub package

Quick Start

Basic Example

These tools are designed to be used with an AI agent and have the responses passed directly to an LLM, so the return schema is a simple dict, but they can be used independently if desired.

from datahub.ingestion.graph.client import DataHubGraph
from datahub_agent_context.mcp_tools.search import search
from datahub_agent_context.mcp_tools.entities import get_entities

# Initialize DataHub graph client
client = DataHubClient.from_env()

# Search for datasets
with client as client:
    results = search(
        query="user_data",
        filters={"entity_type": ["dataset"]},
        num_results=10
    )

# Get detailed entity information
with client as client:
    entities = get_entities(
        urns=[result["entity"]["urn"] for result in results["searchResults"]]
    )

LangChain Integration

Build AI agents with pre-built LangChain tools:

from datahub.sdk.main_client import DataHubClient
from datahub_agent_context.langchain_tools import build_langchain_tools

# Initialize DataHub client
client = DataHubClient.from_env()

# Build all tools (read-only by default)
tools = build_langchain_tools(client, include_mutations=False)

# Or include mutation tools for tagging, descriptions, etc.
tools = build_langchain_tools(client, include_mutations=True)

# Create agent
agent = create_agent(model, tools=tools, system_prompt="...")

DataHub Cloud Tools

If you're connected to a DataHub Cloud instance, you can add Cloud-only tools like Ask DataHub (AI-powered data assistant):

from datahub_agent_context.langchain_tools import build_langchain_tools, build_langchain_cloud_tools

client = DataHubClient.from_env()

# Base tools (works on any DataHub instance)
tools = build_langchain_tools(client, include_mutations=True)

# Add Cloud-only tools (requires DataHub Cloud)
tools += build_langchain_cloud_tools(client, ask_datahub=True)

The same pattern works for Google ADK:

from datahub_agent_context.google_adk_tools import build_google_adk_tools, build_google_adk_cloud_tools

tools = build_google_adk_tools(client, include_mutations=True)
tools += build_google_adk_cloud_tools(client, ask_datahub=True)

See examples/langchain/ for complete LangChain agent examples including:

Available Tools

Search Tools

  • search() - Search across all entity types with filters and sorting
  • search_documents() - Search specifically for Document entities
  • grep_documents() - Grep for patterns in document content

Entity Tools

  • get_entities() - Get detailed information about entities by URN
  • list_schema_fields() - List and filter schema fields for datasets

Lineage Tools

  • get_lineage() - Get upstream or downstream lineage
  • get_lineage_paths_between() - Get detailed paths between two entities

Query Tools

  • get_dataset_queries() - Get SQL queries for datasets or columns

Mutation Tools

  • add_tags(), remove_tags() - Manage tags
  • update_description() - Update entity descriptions
  • set_domains(), remove_domains() - Manage domains
  • add_owners(), remove_owners() - Manage owners
  • add_glossary_terms(), remove_glossary_terms() - Manage glossary terms
  • add_structured_properties(), remove_structured_properties() - Manage structured properties
  • save_document() - Save or update a Document.

User Tools

  • get_me() - Get information about the authenticated user

Cloud-Only Tools (DataHub Cloud)

  • ask_datahub_chat() - Ask the DataHub AI assistant a question about your data catalog
  • get_datahub_chat() - Retrieve messages and status from an Ask DataHub conversation

Architecture

The package is organized into the following modules:

  • mcp_tools/ - Core MCP tool implementations
    • base.py - Base GraphQL execution and response cleaning
    • search.py - Search functionality
    • documents.py - Document search and grep
    • entities.py - Entity retrieval
    • lineage.py - Lineage querying
    • queries.py - Query retrieval
    • tags.py, descriptions.py, domains.py, etc. - Mutation tools
    • helpers.py - Shared utility functions
    • gql/ - GraphQL query definitions

Development

Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/datahub-project/datahub.git
cd datahub/datahub-agent-context

# Set up development environment
./gradlew :datahub-agent-context:installDev

# Run tests
./gradlew :datahub-agent-context:testFull

# Run linting
./gradlew :datahub-agent-context:lintFix

Testing

The package includes comprehensive unit tests for all tools:

# Run full test suite
./gradlew :datahub-agent-context:testFull

Support

Project details


Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

datahub_agent_context-1.6.0.5rc1.tar.gz (100.5 kB view details)

Uploaded Source

Built Distribution

If you're not sure about the file name format, learn more about wheel file names.

datahub_agent_context-1.6.0.5rc1-py3-none-any.whl (136.0 kB view details)

Uploaded Python 3

File details

Details for the file datahub_agent_context-1.6.0.5rc1.tar.gz.

File metadata

File hashes

Hashes for datahub_agent_context-1.6.0.5rc1.tar.gz
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 cdacd33567e191f17d791f65642f239475f3a412312cb9ce68391472858b2524
MD5 ae1766cb328bd07b7715903d9abc7179
BLAKE2b-256 30aed1b64a1a62a3ac405e61e51316751b8908a19ab94fea0b3dde4e709a4f1c

See more details on using hashes here.

File details

Details for the file datahub_agent_context-1.6.0.5rc1-py3-none-any.whl.

File metadata

File hashes

Hashes for datahub_agent_context-1.6.0.5rc1-py3-none-any.whl
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 80bd7890cfdad9a1cc0f1a06499766709e6c779d4ea385e3b5914ab0973a11a6
MD5 31458230617f01fc80c3354610208989
BLAKE2b-256 692e967f01cddd75a033f48785231bff190a4ea80a2dbf8381317ad90a41952c

See more details on using hashes here.

Supported by

AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Monitoring Depot Continuous Integration Fastly CDN Google Download Analytics Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Error logging StatusPage Status page