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alation Codex Plugin

Author
Alation
Category
Data & Analytics
Topics
Data Engineering & Analytics · Databases & Storage · Security, Auth & Compliance
Version
1.0.3
First seen
2026-07-12
Last confirmed
2026-07-13
Explanation last updated
2026-07-12

The explanation below is AI-generated. Please verify it against the sources.

Alation is a ChatGPT plugin, described in its plugin.json as bringing "trusted enterprise data context and governance" into ChatGPT by connecting to Alation's enterprise data catalog. According to the plugin manifest, it lets users discover, understand, and use data with confidence by grounding AI responses in catalog metadata, governance policies, semantic definitions, lineage, data quality, and documentation via the "Alation Intelligence Operating System" (AIOS). The plugin is categorized under "Data & Analytics" and is aimed at enterprise teams that need AI-led data discovery without losing trust or governance. The Alation homepage further describes AIOS as addressing problems where AI agents give wrong answers due to bad data, misread context, or agent errors, and lists related solution areas such as Agentic Compliance, Conversational Analytics, and Agentic Data Governance. The repository README containing this plugin's directory is a generic description of the Codex plugins repo structure and does not provide additional details specific to Alation.

Overview

According to the Alation homepage, Alation is the vendor behind the "Alation Intelligence Operating System" (AIOS), a platform combining a data catalog, governance policies, semantic definitions, lineage, and data quality information intended to help enterprises ground AI agent responses in trusted business context.

What you can do with alation

  • Search Alation for data assets related to a metric and summarize their owners and definitions (per plugin.json default prompts)
  • Find certified Alation tables for an analysis and get explanations of lineage, quality, and caveats (per plugin.json default prompts)
  • Review Alation documentation for a dataset and draft a query-ready data brief (per plugin.json default prompts)

Sources

Original description (English)

Trusted enterprise data context and governance

History of alation

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