Claude Informatica Catalog Discovery connectorWhat Claude can do in your Informatica Catalog Discovery account.
The Claude Informatica Catalog Discovery connector exposes 2 tools, both of them read tools. 0 write, 0 undocumented: Claude searches your Data Governance and Catalog assets and reads their full profile. Below: what it finds and what it leaves untouched.
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What the Claude Informatica Catalog Discovery connector changes for data governance
Instead of clicking through Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC) screen after screen, you ask Claude where the customer table lives or which datasets fall under GDPR. It searches the catalog on its own, then opens the asset you pick to report its stakeholders, classifications, glossary terms and links to other assets.
Find an asset without its exact name. search_assets takes keywords with typed filters or a plain-English request; typed filters cover class type, resource type, certification, lifecycle, stakeholders and dates. Informatica says keyword mode goes first, with natural language as the fallback when it comes back empty.
Understand an asset before using it. Once the identity is known, get_asset_details returns the full view: stakeholders resolved to names or emails, classification, glossary terms, hierarchy and neighborhood relationships.
Prepare a governance review. Informatica lists reporting by classification, certification status or owner as a use case: ask Claude for the assets with a given certification status, or those a given stakeholder owns.
What Claude does not do with this connector: by default the sheet exposes no tool to edit the catalog, certify an asset or reassign an owner. It also does not read table contents, only metadata; that is the job of another Informatica connector, Data Exploration. And nothing runs by itself. For a scheduled job you need an automation tool, a different job; the Integrations hub covers that side.
The vocabulary in one minute
Five words you will meet while connecting Informatica Catalog Discovery.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and a service, so Claude can work with it while it answers you.
- Tool
- One named capability the connector opens to Claude. Claude picks the ones it needs, and the directory sheet lists them all.
- Authorization
- The service's own sign-in screen, where you hand Claude the access it will use from then on. Granted once, and taken back the same way.
- Directory
- Claude's official catalogue: every connector gets a sheet with its publisher, its purpose and the full list of its tools.
- MCP
- The shared standard behind connectors: it is what lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service.
Connect Informatica Catalog Discovery to Claude in three steps
- 01
Find Informatica Catalog Discovery in your settings
Open Claude's settings, go to Customize then Connectors, and locate Informatica Catalog Discovery in the list. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner has to enable it before you can sign in.
- 02
Start the connection
Hit Connect on its row, then sign in through the window that the service opens on its own side. If the link ever breaks, use Disconnect and connect it again.
- 03
Review the authorization screen
Read the authorization screen before you accept: it belongs to the service, and it sets what the access covers. You can also revoke that access later from your Informatica Catalog Discovery account.
The 2 tools in the Informatica Catalog Discovery connector
Informatica Catalog Discovery gives Claude 2 tools: 2 that read your account, 0 that change something in it.
Both tools read the catalog; neither changes anything in it. Names stay exactly as Claude shows them.
- 2 read
What Claude reads (2)
2 toolsTwo tools that browse your metadata without editing it.
get_asset_details
Opens one asset from its identity and returns what Informatica calls 360-degree metadata: stakeholders resolved to names or emails, classifications, glossary terms, hierarchy and the assets around it.
search_assets
Queries the catalog by keyword or in natural language. Keyword mode is the default, and Informatica advises a retry in natural language when it misses what you expected.
What Claude asks before it acts
By default, Claude stops and asks for your go-ahead before each action it takes on an account for you. Both tools in this connector only read, yet the rule stays in place.
On a Team or Enterprise workspace, owners decide whether a member may let some actions through without confirmation. They can also cap what a connector may do across the organization, keeping reads and shutting writes for instance, and nobody bypasses that from a personal account. Claude also works with your access and nothing beyond it: an asset your Informatica profile hides from you stays out of its reach.
Which plans it is available on
None of the 819 sheets in the directory shows availability by plan. Connector by connector, that information is not published anywhere: a genuine gap in the catalogue.
The general rule is published: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner turns the connector on for the organization before members can connect. For the current state, check the Informatica Catalog Discovery sheet in the official directory.
Where this connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you: nothing kicks off when an asset changes in the catalog.
By default the sheet exposes only reads, but that is an observed floor, not a ceiling: an admin can open actions that appear on no public sheet. The partner badge is not a security audit either, and Anthropic says so on every sheet: it does not choose the tools a publisher exposes and does not vouch for their behavior. This connector is documented by its sheet and Informatica's guide alone. To compare with another connector's page, see the Claude adobe-workfront connector.
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