diff --git a/.copywrite.hcl b/.copywrite.hcl
index 0494a4fe5..ea5128aa0 100644
--- a/.copywrite.hcl
+++ b/.copywrite.hcl
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ project {
   copyright_year = 2021
 
   header_ignore = [
+    # internal catalog metadata (prose)
+    "META.d/**/*.yaml",
+
     # changie tooling configuration and CHANGELOG entries (prose)
     ".changes/unreleased/**",
     ".changie.yaml",
@@ -24,4 +27,4 @@ project {
     # Release Engineering tooling configuration
     ".release/*.hcl",
   ]
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/META.d/_summary.yaml b/META.d/_summary.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ab475b5e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/META.d/_summary.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+schema: 1.1
+
+partition: tf-ecosystem
+
+summary:
+  owner: team-tf-core-plugins
+  description: |
+    A next-generation framework for building Terraform providers.
+  visibility: public