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From: Rishi Mashelkar <308192092+rishi-mashelkar@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:02:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add DataCharter to Tools

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 - [Data Caterer](https://github.com/data-catering/data-caterer) - Data Caterer is a test data management tool that can leverage the rich metadata from data contracts to help simulate production-like data and validate your data pipelines
 - [Provero](https://github.com/provero-org/provero) - Provero is a vendor-neutral, declarative data quality engine with built-in data contracts support. Define checks and contracts in YAML, run anywhere. Features include schema validation, SLA enforcement (freshness, completeness), contract versioning with diff, and violation blocking.
 - [Schemata](https://github.com/ananthdurai/schemata) - Schemata is a schema modeling framework for decentralized domain-driven ownership of data. Schemata combines a set of standard metadata definitions for each schema & data field and a scoring algorithm to provide a feedback loop on how efficient the data modeling of your data warehouse is.
+- [DataCharter](https://github.com/datacharter/datacharter) - DataCharter is a local-first, contract-governed data explorer: a YAML data contract declares sources, PII, and access rules, which it enforces when serving DuckDB-federated data to SQL users and AI agents over the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
 
 ## Specifications and Protocols