🎉 What's new

Your team already knows things about your data that can't be inferred from a column name: that this table refreshes at 06:00 UTC, excludes test orders, or that a null here means "not yet reconciled," not zero.

You may already have that context in Atlan as a Knowledge File.

But until now, the Context Agents that drive enrichment across so much of your data estate couldn't read it. They enriched purely from schema and lineage, with no way to point them at the document that already had the answer.

That changes now, with two new offerings.

First, link a Knowledge File to an asset (GA), and the Description and README context agents read it the next time they enrich that asset, grounding what they write in what your team already documented instead of inferring it. SOPs, best practices, data contracts, data dictionaries, runbooks, migration notes: all of this unstructured and semi-structured information can now shape how Atlan describes your data.

✨ Let's dig deeper

• Link from two places on the asset profile. Use the Knowledge files section in the details panel, or the + in the resources row under the Readme. Either opens the same picker: search, select one or more files, and click Link files.
• Scoped by design. An agent reads only the files linked to the asset it is enriching, never all of them. Linking is how you decide which document applies where.
• Written, not copied. Agents take the facts a document establishes and express them for the asset. You get the same facts in different words, not a trimmed passage.
• Nothing gets overwritten. Enrichment fills gaps. Descriptions and READMEs you already have stay exactly as they are.
• The document has to be a Knowledge File in Atlan. If yours isn't uploaded yet, create a Knowledge Folder and upload it first.

Second, and launching in Private Preview: Agent Templates

Everything above works in one direction: an agent reads a document you linked and writes onto an asset you already have.

Agent Templates run the other way. Instead of enriching what's in Atlan from schema and lineage, an agent reaches the systems where your documentation already lives, reads what's written there, and creates governed context that wasn't in Atlan at all - citing its source every time.

Each template is built for one outcome. You pick the outcome you want, connect the source, say what you're after, preview, then run. The first one is live:

Business Graph Term Generator turns your docs into business graph terms and categories, enriches terms that have no definition, and links them to the assets they describe. Every term carries a citation back to the document it came from.

• You supply four things, and none of them is the prompt. The source to read, the scope inside it, run instructions saying which terms you want, and optionally your own skills for house rules a template can't know. Atlan packages the rest: the skills that make a run reliable, the quality gates it has to pass, and the write path into Atlan.
• Sample before you publish. A sample run reads a small part of your sources and proposes a handful of terms in a minute or two. It publishes nothing. Read it, adjust your instructions, sample again, then run for real.
• Your Knowledge Files are a source here too. The documents you're linking to assets today can also be what a template reads from, with nothing to connect and no credentials to manage.
• Read-only by construction. For GitHub and Confluence, an admin connects the source once in Settings with a read-only credential you provide. That credential is the access boundary: the agent reads exactly what the token can read, can't write back to the source, and never asks an end user to sign in.
• More outcomes are coming. Selecting the bell on a template card records your interest, and that signal decides which one gets built next.

Agent Templates are available in the New UI only, enabled per tenant, and open to workspace admins and governance admins. Runs are free for the duration of the preview. If you don't see a Create agent button in Agents Studio, your tenant isn't switched on yet - talk to your Atlan contact!

New to this? Start with Understand agent templates.