diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index a369d05..5263ae4 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 recursive-include cfa/dataops/reporting/reports
 recursive-include cfa/dataops/etl/transform_templates
 include cfa/dataops/config.ini
+include cfa/dataops/py.typed
diff --git a/cfa/dataops/catalog.py b/cfa/dataops/catalog.py
index 3258cff..1485cdd 100644
--- a/cfa/dataops/catalog.py
+++ b/cfa/dataops/catalog.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 from io import BytesIO
 from pathlib import PurePosixPath
 from types import SimpleNamespace
-from typing import Any, Literal, overload
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Literal, overload
 
 import pandas as pd
 import polars as pl
@@ -83,11 +83,40 @@ def get_all_catalogs() -> list:
 report_namespaces = get_dataset_dot_path(all_reports_ns_map)
 
 
+class CatalogNamespace(SimpleNamespace):
+    """Recursive namespace wrapper for statically-typed catalog access.
+
+    Runtime instances still behave like ``SimpleNamespace`` objects, but the
+    declared attributes let editors resolve endpoint methods on dynamic access
+    chains such as ``datacat.public.team.dataset.load``.
+    """
+
+    if TYPE_CHECKING:
+        load: "BlobEndpoint"
+        extract: "BlobEndpoint"
+        data: "BlobEndpoint"
+        _ledger_endpoint: "BlobEndpoint"
+        config: dict[str, Any]
+        __namespace_list__: list[str]
+
+    def __getattr__(self, name: str) -> "CatalogNamespace":
+        raise AttributeError(
+            f"{type(self).__name__!s} object has no attribute {name!r}"
+        )
+
+
 class DatasetEndpoint:
     """The DatasetEndpoint class for including in the datacat namespace.
     This ends the namespace branching at a config file and creates all the
     blob endpoints for each 'stage' of the config (e.g., extract, load, stage_01)."""
 
+    if TYPE_CHECKING:
+        config: dict[str, Any]
+        load: "BlobEndpoint"
+        extract: "BlobEndpoint"
+        data: "BlobEndpoint"
+        _ledger_endpoint: "BlobEndpoint"
+
     def __init__(self, config_path: str, defaults: dict, ns: str):
         """Basic functionality to interact with datasets to be included
         via the datasets configs.
@@ -685,7 +714,7 @@ def save_dir_to_blob(
                 )
 
 
-def dict_to_sn(d: Any, defaults: dict = None, ns: str = "") -> SimpleNamespace:
+def dict_to_sn(d: Any, defaults: dict | None = None, ns: str = "") -> CatalogNamespace:
     """Simple recursive namespace construction
 
     Args:
@@ -694,9 +723,9 @@ def dict_to_sn(d: Any, defaults: dict = None, ns: str = "") -> SimpleNamespace:
         ns (str, optional): the current namespace path. Defaults to ''.
 
     Returns:
-        SimpleNamespace: namespace representation
+        CatalogNamespace: namespace representation
     """
-    x = SimpleNamespace()
+    x = CatalogNamespace()
     ns_prefix = f"{ns}." if ns != "" else ""
     _ = [
         setattr(
@@ -737,9 +766,9 @@ def dict_to_sn(d: Any, defaults: dict = None, ns: str = "") -> SimpleNamespace:
     rc.append(report_dict_to_sn({k: all_reports_ns_map[k]}))
 combined_reports_dict = {key: value for ns in rc for key, value in vars(ns).items()}
 
-datacat = SimpleNamespace(**combined_dict)
+datacat: CatalogNamespace = CatalogNamespace(**combined_dict)
 datacat.__setattr__("__namespace_list__", dataset_namespaces)
-reportcat = SimpleNamespace(**combined_reports_dict)
+reportcat: CatalogNamespace = CatalogNamespace(**combined_reports_dict)
 reportcat.__setattr__("__namespace_list__", report_namespaces)
 
 
diff --git a/cfa/dataops/py.typed b/cfa/dataops/py.typed
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 331c8f4..bb3ece3 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [tool.poetry]
 packages = [{ include = "cfa" }]
+include = [
+    { path = "cfa/dataops/py.typed", format = ["sdist", "wheel"] },
+]
 
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]