Meta-data promises have no internal function. They are intended to be used to represent arbitrary information about promise bundles. Formally, meta promises are implemented as variables, and the values map to a variable context called bundlename_meta. The values can be used as variables and will appear in CFEngine Enterprise variable reports.

code
bundle agent example
{
meta:

  "bundle_version" string => "1.2.3";
  "works_with_cfengine" slist => { "3.4.0", "3.5.0" };

reports:

  "Not a local variable: $(bundle_version)";
  "Meta data (variable): $(example_meta.bundle_version)";

}

The value of meta data can be of the types string or slist or data.