← Daily Brief for September 16, 2026
Anthropic’s skills marketplace adds governed Informatica catalog discovery
Focus: Agents for Non-Technical People
Date: September 16, 2026
Topics: Agent Skills, catalog grounding, data governance, safe use
Evidence: Official Documentation
Availability: General Availability
Summary: A verified Anthropic repository commit added Informatica’s plugin to the knowledge-work marketplace. The Agent Skill is designed to find tables, columns, files, glossary terms and policies in Informatica’s enterprise catalog, then report ownership, certification, sensitivity and applicable policy before data is queried. It requires an Informatica IDMC tenant and Catalog Discovery connector.
Why it matters: This is a concrete reusable-skill pattern for grounding an agent in governance metadata before it touches enterprise data. The commit verifies marketplace inclusion, not deployment quality or universal access; organizations still need connector configuration, permission review, catalog quality checks and human judgment about whether the returned guidance authorizes use.
What to do now
Test metadata before data: Ask the skill for one asset’s owner, certification, sensitivity and policy; compare every field with the catalog before allowing any downstream query.
Source: Informatica Catalog Discovery