Data Workers
Integration with Databricks for data catalog and metadata management, enabling querying and searching of Databricks assets.
Integration with dbt for data catalog and metadata management, enabling querying and searching of dbt models and lineage.
Integration with Neo4j as an infrastructure adapter for state management and persistence.
Integration with PostgreSQL as an infrastructure adapter for state management and persistence.
Integration with Redis as an infrastructure adapter for state management and persistence.
Integration with Snowflake for data catalog and metadata management, enabling querying and searching of Snowflake assets.
What is Data Workers?
Data Workers is a coordinated swarm of AI agents that automate the full spectrum of data engineering workflows. Each agent is a standalone MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that exposes domain-specific tools to Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, VS Code, and any MCP-compatible client.
The problem: Data engineers spend 60%+ of their time on undifferentiated work -- writing pipeline boilerplate, debugging data incidents at 2am, chasing schema changes across teams, manually cataloging assets, and fighting governance paperwork.
The solution: 11 autonomous agents that understand your data stack end-to-end. They build pipelines, detect anomalies, manage catalogs, enforce governance, track ML experiments, and more -- all through natural language via the MCP protocol your AI tools already speak.
Everything runs locally with in-memory stubs by default. No external services required. No data leaves your machine. BYO model -- use any LLM provider.
Read more: Why We Open-Sourced Data Workers
Get Started
git clone https://github.com/DataWorkersProject/dataworkers-claw-community.git
cd dataworkers-claw-community
npm installThen add agents to Claude Code (run from inside the cloned repo):
claude mcp add dw-pipelines -- "$(pwd)/start-agent.sh" dw-pipelines && \
claude mcp add dw-incidents -- "$(pwd)/start-agent.sh" dw-incidents && \
claude mcp add dw-catalog -- "$(pwd)/start-agent.sh" dw-context-catalog && \
claude mcp add dw-schema -- "$(pwd)/start-agent.sh" dw-schema && \
claude mcp add dw-quality -- "$(pwd)/start-agent.sh" dw-quality && \
claude mcp add dw-governance -- "$(pwd)/start-agent.sh" dw-governance && \
claude mcp add dw-usage -- "$(pwd)/start-agent.sh" dw-usage-intelligence && \
claude mcp add dw-observability -- "$(pwd)/start-agent.sh" dw-observability && \
claude mcp add dw-connectors -- "$(pwd)/start-agent.sh" dw-connectors && \
claude mcp add dw-ml -- "$(pwd)/start-agent.sh" dw-mlStart Claude Code and ask:
"Search the catalog for customer-related tables"
"Show me the full lineage for the orders table"
"Why did the orders table row count drop 40% yesterday?"
"Scan the customer schema for PII and suggest masking policies"
"Compare the last two ML experiments and explain the accuracy difference"
Everything works instantly with in-memory seed data — no infrastructure required.
Client configuration
Each agent can be started via the start-agent.sh script, which handles working directory and dependency resolution. Replace /path/to/dataworkers-claw-community with your clone location.
Claude Code (.mcp.json in your project root):
{
"mcpServers": {
"dw-pipelines": {
"command": "/path/to/dataworkers-claw-community/start-agent.sh",
"args": ["dw-pipelines"]
},
"dw-catalog": {
"command": "/path/to/dataworkers-claw-community/start-agent.sh",
"args": ["dw-context-catalog"]
},
"dw-quality": {
"command": "/path/to/dataworkers-claw-community/start-agent.sh",
"args": ["dw-quality"]
}
}
}Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json) — same format:
{
"mcpServers": {
"dw-pipelines": {
"command": "/path/to/dataworkers-claw-community/start-agent.sh",
"args": ["dw-pipelines"]
},
"dw-incidents": {
"command": "/path/to/dataworkers-claw-community/start-agent.sh",
"args": ["dw-incidents"]
}
}
}OpenCode (opencode.json in your project root):
{
"mcp": {
"dw-pipelines": {
"type": "local",
"command": ["/path/to/dataworkers-claw-community/start-agent.sh", "dw-pipelines"],
"enabled": true
},
"dw-catalog": {
"type": "local",
"command": ["/path/to/dataworkers-claw-community/start-agent.sh", "dw-context-catalog"],
"enabled": true
}
}
}Agents
Agent | Package | Description | Tools |
Pipelines |
| NL-to-pipeline generation, template engine, Iceberg MERGE INTO, Kafka events, Airflow deployment. Write tools ( | 4 |
Incidents |
| Statistical anomaly detection, graph-based root cause analysis, playbook execution | 5 |
Catalog |
| Hybrid search (vector + BM25 + graph), lineage traversal, Iceberg crawler | 35 |
Schema |
| INFORMATION_SCHEMA diffs, rename detection, Iceberg snapshot evolution | 9 |
Quality |
| Weighted 5-dimension scoring, z-score anomaly detection, 14-day baselines | 6 |
Governance |
| Priority-based policy engine, 3-pass PII scanner (regex + values + LLM) | 6 |
Usage Intelligence |
| Practitioner analytics, workflow patterns, adoption dashboards, heatmaps (zero LLM) | 26 |
Observability |
| SHA-256 audit trail, drift detection, agent metrics (p50/p95/p99), health monitoring | 6 |
Connectors |
| Unified MCP gateway to 15 catalog connectors | 56 |
Orchestration |
| Priority scheduler, heartbeat monitor, agent registry, event choreography | internal (not MCP) |
MLOps & Models |
| Experiment tracking, model registry, feature pipelines, SHAP explainability, drift detection, A/B testing. Write tools ( | 16 |
Architecture
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ MCP Clients │
│ Claude Code · OpenCode · Cursor · VS Code · Any MCP Client │
└────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┘
│ MCP Protocol (JSON-RPC 2.0 / stdio)
│
┌────────────────────────────▼────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 11 AI Agents (160+ tools) │
│ │
│ pipelines · incidents · catalog · schema · quality · governance│
│ usage-intelligence · observability · connectors · orchestration│
│ ml │
└────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┘
│ Factory-injected dependencies
│
┌────────────────────────────▼────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Core Platform (9 packages) │
│ MCP Framework · Context Layer · Agent Lifecycle · Validation │
│ Conflict Resolution · Enterprise · Orchestrator · Platform │
│ Medallion (Bronze → Silver → Gold lakehouse management) │
└────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┘
│
┌────────────────────────────▼────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Infrastructure Adapters (auto-detect) │
│ Redis · Kafka · PostgreSQL · Neo4j · pgvector · PG FTS │
│ LLM Bridge · Warehouse Bridge · Airflow │
│ (falls back to InMemory stubs when services unavailable) │
└────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┘
│
┌────────────────────────────▼────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 15 Catalog Connectors │
│ Snowflake · BigQuery · Databricks · dbt · Iceberg · Glue │
│ Hive · DataHub · OpenMetadata · Purview · Dataplex · Nessie │
│ Polaris · OpenLineage · Lake Formation │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘Connectors
Data Workers includes 15 catalog connectors out of the box. Additional enterprise connectors are available in Pro/Enterprise editions.
Connector | Description |
Snowflake | Databases, tables, DDL, usage stats |
BigQuery | Datasets, tables, schema, cost estimation |
Databricks | Unity Catalog, tables, query history |
AWS Glue | Databases, tables, partitions |
Lake Formation | Permissions, grants, resource listing |
Hive Metastore | Thrift-based database/table/partition access |
dbt | Models, lineage, test results, run history |
DataHub | Entity search, metadata, lineage, usage stats |
OpenMetadata | Entity search, lineage, tags, glossary |
Purview | Catalog search, entity metadata, classifications |
Dataplex | Lakes, zones, assets, data quality, discovery |
Nessie | Git-like branching, commits, merges, content versioning |
Apache Iceberg | REST Catalog, time travel, schema evolution, statistics |
Apache Polaris | Multi-catalog federation, OAuth2, permission policies |
OpenLineage | Lineage graphs, job runs, column lineage, event emission |
Category | Connectors |
Orchestration (11) | Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, AWS Step Functions, Azure Data Factory, dbt Cloud, Cloud Composer, Temporal, Mage, Kestra, Argo |
Alerting (5) | PagerDuty, Slack, Microsoft Teams, OpsGenie, New Relic |
Quality (6) | Great Expectations, Soda, Monte Carlo, Anomalo, Bigeye, Elementary |
BI (5) | Looker, Tableau, Metabase, Sigma, Superset |
Observability (2) | OpenTelemetry, Datadog |
Identity (2) | Okta, Azure AD |
ITSM (2) | ServiceNow, Jira Service Management |
Cost (1) | AWS Cost Explorer |
Streaming (1) | Kafka Schema Registry |
Community Edition includes up to 3 enterprise connectors. See pricing for details.
Project Structure
dataworkers-claw-community/
├── agents/ # 11 agent MCP servers
│ ├── dw-pipelines/ # Write tools (generate, deploy) require Pro
│ ├── dw-incidents/
│ ├── dw-context-catalog/
│ ├── dw-schema/
│ ├── dw-quality/
│ ├── dw-governance/
│ ├── dw-usage-intelligence/
│ ├── dw-observability/
│ ├── dw-connectors/
│ ├── dw-orchestration/
│ └── dw-ml/ # Write tools require Pro
├── core/ # 9 shared platform packages
│ ├── mcp-framework/ # Base MCP server class
│ ├── infrastructure-stubs/ # 9 interfaces + InMemory stubs + real adapters
│ ├── llm-provider/ # Multi-provider LLM abstraction
│ ├── medallion/ # Bronze/Silver/Gold lakehouse management
│ ├── enterprise/ # Enterprise middleware shim (no-op in Community Edition)
│ ├── orchestrator/ # Multi-agent coordination
│ ├── context-layer/ # Shared context for cross-agent communication
│ └── ...
├── connectors/ # 15 catalog connectors
├── packages/ # CLI (dw-claw) and VS Code extension
├── tests/ # Contract, integration, e2e, and eval tests
├── docker/ # Dockerfiles and compose
└── docs/ # Architecture specs and guidesDevelopment
npm test # Run all tests (2,900+, no external services required)
npm run build # Build all packages
npm run lint # Lint
npm run typecheck # Type-check
cd agents/dw-pipelines && npm run dev # Run a single agent in dev modeTroubleshooting
Agent fails to start: Ensure you're using start-agent.sh (not node directly). The script sets the working directory correctly for tsx module resolution. See docs/MCP-STARTUP-BUG-REPORT.md for details.
Module not found errors: Run npm install from the repo root. The monorepo uses npm workspaces — all dependencies are hoisted.
Tests fail on fresh clone: Make sure Node.js >= 20 is installed. Run npm install before npm test.
Known Limitations
npm packages require the cloned repo.
npx dw-clawandnpx data-context-mcpdepend on workspace packages that aren't published individually. Use thestart-agent.shapproach for now.dw-orchestration is an internal service, not an MCP agent. It provides task scheduling and agent coordination APIs used by other agents.
Write operations require Pro. Tools like
generate_pipeline,deploy_model, andtrain_modelreturn upgrade prompts in the Community Edition.
Contributing
We welcome contributions. See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on reporting bugs, setting up your dev environment, submitting PRs, and code style.
Join the Data Workers Community on Discord to ask questions and connect with other contributors.
Further Reading
Topic | Link |
Infrastructure details | |
Configuration (env vars) | |
Tiers & Pricing | |
Security | |
License | LICENSE (Apache 2.0) |
LLM Data Disclosure | |
API Reference |
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