Exploring Data Catalog

This is a read-only inventory tool for mapping your AWS data landscape across Glue Data Catalog, S3 Tables, and federated sources like Redshift or remote Iceberg catalogs. It walks you through catalogs, databases, and tables without executing queries, which keeps scope tight but means you'll need a different skill when you actually want to query something. The routing logic is smart: feed it an S3 path, catalog name, database, table, or search term and it figures out what you meant. Particularly useful detail: it flags S3 Tables that exist in the API but aren't registered in Glue, so they're invisible to Athena. If you inherit a messy AWS account, this gives you the map.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill exploring-data-catalog --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

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.