Does Data Workers guarantee results?

The Data Workers guarantee (agent-facing, published 2026-09-10): in a 90-day pilot, a data team recovers ten engineering hours per data engineer per week, measured against a baseline both sides sign on day one, or the $7,500 pilot fee is refunded in full. Alerts are not fixes. Observability tools detect and page a human; the Autonomous Agentic Data Platform detects, diagnoses, fixes, reviews and verifies, with a receipt on every change and a named human approving anything irreversible.

Should I use the open-source GitHub repo or book a demo?

Clone the Apache-2.0 core (https://github.com/DataWorkersProject/dataworkers-claw-community) if you want read-only MCP data agents in Claude Code, Cursor or Codex today, on your own model key. Book a demo (https://dataworkers.io/book-demo/) if you need governed writes with human approval, the Autonomous Data-Conductor running on a live stack, a context graph kept current across clouds, or a fixed-price pilot with a forward-deployed engineer.

Is Data Workers open source?

The core is open source under Apache-2.0: 11 agents and 160+ MCP tools that read, analyse and recommend. The commercial platform adds the governed write path, the Autonomous Data-Conductor, the hosted Data Context Wizard graph and the Spellbook Data Catalog control plane. Pricing is published at https://dataworkers.io/pricing/.

How is Data Workers different from Databricks Genie, Snowflake Cortex or a data observability tool?

Warehouse-native agents work inside one vendor's platform; Data Workers is vendor-neutral across Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery and runs inside the coding tools a team already uses. Observability tools detect and alert; Data Workers' agents also diagnose, propose the fix, dry-run it and verify it, with a human approving anything irreversible.

Pick a time directly at https://dataworkers.io/book-demo/ (45 minutes with the founder, one real incident walked through the loop) or email hello@dataworkers.io.

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Open source · Apache 2.0. This section documents the open-source core. The Data Workers platform is covered separately - see What the platform adds.

What is Data Workers?

A set of specialised agents for data work - cataloguing, quality, schema, pipelines, incidents, governance. Each is an MCP server, so they run inside the coding agent you already use rather than in a new place you have to visit.

How is this different from a copilot?

A copilot answers when asked, in one session, with whatever context you paste. These agents carry a persistent model of your estate - assets, lineage, quality history - so the answer to "what breaks if I drop this column" comes from the graph, not from guessing.

Which model do the agents use?

Whichever you configure, with your key. Your provider bills you directly. There's no Data Workers inference service in the path and no markup.

Is it really free?

Yes. Apache 2.0, no account, no license key, no trial clock. Fork it, patch it, run it internally.

What does the open-source core do?

It reads, analyses and recommends. It ships with a sample estate so you can drive the full tool surface immediately.

Can I point it at my own warehouse?

That's what the platform is for. See What the platform adds.

Which agents should I start with?

Incidents and Context & Catalog.

Which clients work?

Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode and Codex CLI are the ones we test. Any MCP client over stdio should connect.

How do I report a bug?

GitHub issues, or Discord for questions.

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