exploring-data-catalog

exploring-data-catalog is a skill for Claude Code from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. It costs 99 tokens per session (2,540 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only inventory guide for AWS Glue Data Catalog and related Iceberg and Redshift catalogs. A data catalog is a searchable directory describing databases and tables, rather than the data itself.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list or audit catalogs, databases, tables, S3 Tables, federated Redshift assets, and remote Iceberg catalogs.
Why use it?
It helps you understand what data assets exist and avoids incomplete results when the catalog has many pages of entries.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the aws-data-analytics plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to list or audit catalogs, databases, tables, S3 Tables, federated Redshift assets, and remote Iceberg catalogs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/exploring-data-catalog
About the project

Agent Toolkit for AWS is a collection of AWS-supported MCP servers, skills, plugins, commands, and hooks that help AI coding agents build, deploy, and manage applications on AWS. It is used by developers working with AWS services through agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Kiro. The catalogue entries are the toolkit's own agent extensions for AWS development and operations.

aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws · 2,539 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/exploring-data-catalog
Any agent
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill exploring-data-catalog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aws-data-analytics, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,540 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00099 $0.02540
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01270
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00508
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00254

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0632d31d7e4b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

exploring-data-catalog scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/aws-data-analytics/skills/exploring-data-catalog/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Structured inventory and cataloging across your AWS data landscape: Glue Data Catalog with S3 Tables, Redshift-federated, and remote Iceberg catalogs.

Overview

Maps data in an AWS account. Starts with catalog landscape (Glue, S3 Tables, federated), then drills into databases and tables. Read-only — no query execution.

Constraints for parameter acquisition:

  • You MUST ask for the target AWS region upfront if not provided
  • You MUST support a single optional argument: search term, catalog name, database name, S3 path, or table name
  • You MUST accept the argument as direct input or a pointer to a file containing the spec
  • You MUST confirm the scope (full landscape vs. targeted deep dive) before making API calls
  • You MUST respect the user's decision to abort at any step

Common Tasks

Pagination: All list and search calls in this workflow may return paginated results. You MUST pass --next-token from the previous response until no more tokens are returned. You MUST NOT assume a single page contains all results.

1. Verify Dependencies

Check for required tools and AWS access before discovery.

Constraints:

  • You MUST verify AWS MCP server tools are available (aws___call_aws, aws___search_documentation) and fall back to AWS CLI if not
  • You MUST confirm credentials are valid: aws sts get-caller-identity
  • You MUST inform the user about any missing tools and ask whether to proceed

2. Consult Catalog Context (experimental — suggested first lookup)

Customers may publish context assets that describe the data landscape (canonical names, domains, ownership) faster than a full enumeration.

These are the Glue Discovery operations (SearchAssets / GetAsset / ListIterableForms / BatchGetIterableForms) — a distinct metadata-search surface, NOT the legacy glue search-tables. They are experimental — not available in every CLI build. Gate the lookup on two checks first:

  1. Availability. Confirm the GetAsset operation exists in the caller's Glue CLI model (redirect output so the CLI pager cannot block a non-interactive agent):

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 192 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 0632d31d7e4b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

exploring-data-catalog is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (2,539 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 2,540 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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