NVIDIA Auto Ontology

NVIDIA/auto-ontology on GitHub

An open library from NVIDIA that builds an ontology from database metadata and serves it to agents through MCP, CLI and API, so they answer data questions with SQL that is checked against the database.

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Source checked 7 November 2026

Access and use

Runs as a self-hosted stack: clone the repo, copy .env.example to .env, then docker compose up -d --build; a Helm chart covers Kubernetes. Requires Docker with Compose v2, uv and an NVIDIA API key (nvapi-...) from build.nvidia.com, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint set per model role. By default the models that build the ontology and write each answer's SQL run on NVIDIA's hosted API catalog (integrate.api.nvidia.com); point the endpoints at self-hosted NIM to keep inference in house. Connect agents through the MCP query tools with uvx --from "git+https://github.com/NVIDIA/auto-ontology.git#subdirectory=mcp" auto-ontology-mcp; each user signs in, and every call runs with that user's application permissions. Generated SQL runs with the connected database account's rights, so use a dedicated read-only account limited to the tables and views you intend to expose. Compose publishes Postgres, pgAdmin and the web app on the host, so replace every default password first, and keep ports 3001 and 3002 on a private network because the ingestion endpoints have no authentication of their own. Setting KUMO_RFM_API_KEY makes the agent upload connected tables to the hosted KumoRFM service for predictive questions. Apache-2.0.

Who it is for

Data and platform teams who want agents to answer analytics questions over SQL sources such as PostgreSQL, Snowflake and Databricks using shared, certified definitions.

What we checked

Last checked: 7 November 2026
Source read: github.com/NVIDIA/auto-ontology/blob/main/README.md
How it was checked: Official documentation and licence reviewed; not installed or independently tested

Entry details

Official link: github.com/NVIDIA/auto-ontology
Group: APIs and data
Added to Gearlist: 7 November 2026
Gearlist id: nvidia-auto-ontology
Markdown: /tools/nvidia-auto-ontology.md

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Gearlist entry: https://gearlist.build/tools/nvidia-auto-ontology/
Official link: https://github.com/NVIDIA/auto-ontology

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