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Snowflake CoCo
Your data-native AI coding agent. Turn your complex data engineering, analytics and AI workflows into simple conversations.
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Overview
Build with Snowflake CoCo wherever you work
Desktop
Snowflake CoCo Desktop
A comprehensive AI development environment in macOS or Windows, with integrated access to local files, terminals and Snowflake.
Browser
Snowflake CoCo Mode in Snowsight
A new full-screen experience in Snowsight, with sub-agents, live preview and native Git to take work from first draft to pull request.
Terminal
Snowflake CoCo CLI
A terminal-native AI coding agent that connects your local development environment to your data stack.
iOS and Android
CoCo mode in the Snowflake App
Your AI coding agent for data, now in the Snowflake mobile app. Build, steer and review your work while on the move.
Existing Tools
Snowflake CoCo Integrations
Run CoCo directly in your IDE, bringing data-native agentic coding into tools you already use.
Benefits
Accelerate Your Enterprise Data Lifecycle with Snowflake CoCo
Build exponentially faster from a simple conversation
Create data pipelines, analytics, ML models, apps and AI agents in plain language.
Reliably hand off work to an agent that knows your stack
CoCo can read your catalog, lineage and role-based access control (RBAC) and RSS policies, and connect to the tools you use via governed MCPs.
Fit into your tools and workflows without imposing new ones
Work wherever you already work — Snowflake, your terminal or IDE, or even on the move — with a governed agent for enterprise scale.
Faster innovation
Imagine, build and ship at the speed of your ideas
- Identify data and build pipelines across dbt, Apache Airflow®1, Postgres, Spark and AWS Glue in natural conversations.
- Generate fully executable ML pipelines autonomously, ready to run directly in Snowflake Notebooks.
- Create apps and agents grounded in your enterprise data, governance and compute context.
"Snowflake CoCo is becoming a core part of how we operate as a company. We’re rolling it out across the entire organization, not just our data team. Because it understands our data, our environment, and our governance, teams can build and automate workflows on top of trusted data without needing specialized expertise."
Matt Luizzi
VP of Analytics, WHOOP
Automations
Keep routine data work going even while you’re away
Start your day with a summary of pipeline failures, data freshness or warehouse usage. Describe the work once and automate it with CoCo Automations†.
Run automated workflows in Snowflake from CoCo in Snowsight, CLI or Desktop, even when your terminal, browser or computer is closed.
Every run leaves an audit trail of what CoCo checked, and what it found and did, so you can hand off recurring work and trust the result.
Strong data foundation
Tap into an agent harness designed for data, not just code
Get grounded results from the first prompt. CoCo already knows your enterprise context, including catalog, lineage, RBAC, compute and pipeline dependencies.
Ditch generic code wrappers for built-in, Snowflake-specialized tooling like semantic catalog search, data diffing, sandboxed runtimes and more.
Simplify complex multi-step data tasks. Orchestration coordinates sub-agents and routes between models to balance cost and accuracy automatically.
Cost Governance
Optimize and control where your AI spend is actually going
- Understand how AI is being used across users, teams and workloads in real time, not weeks later when invoices arrive.
- Attribute AI consumption to projects, departments or cost centers with Snowflake’s native tagging framework, making chargeback and showback straightforward.
- Establish guardrails before costs become surprises with per-user quotas† and automated notifications.
Enterprise-ready by design
Leverage built-in extensibility, interoperability and customization
- Manage permissions and usage policies through centralized configuration and fine-grained controls.
- Connect to Jira, GitHub and other agents in your developer toolchain via out-of-the-box Model Context Protocol (MCP) support. Embed into agents and automated workflows via the SDK, MCP server and Async API.
- Build, share and refine specialized agent skills, or migrate existing workflows from other coding agents using the open agents.md framework.
- Choose between frontier and open-source models, including Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT 6, for quality, latency and cost.
“CoCo helps our engineers improve the performance of our business intelligence tools, meaningfully reducing the time it takes to improve quality and speed of natural language query responses.”
Tony Leopold
Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, United Rentals
Native and embedded
CoCo is available where you build
Work natively in Desktop, CLI or Snowsight, with full enterprise data context across different surfaces.
Integrate into your existing IDE or tools through the CoCo extension for VS Code, CoCo plugin for Claude Code or Codex, or Agent Client Protocol, supporting 30+ editors.
Embed CoCo into agents and automated workflows via the Cortex Agent SDK, MCP server and Async API.
“CoCo helps us reduce friction in everyday data and AI development while maintaining the controls and oversight we need in a regulated environment. Our teams can build faster with the context they need to be successful.”
Vibhor Gupta
VP of Enterprise Data & AI, Shelter Mutual Insurance
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“By leveraging CoWork and CoCo together, we've opened up access to insights at all levels — from the front lines all the way up to the executive suite.”
Patrick Duroseau
Chief Data and AI Officer, Under Armour
Resources
Explore CoCo Developer Guides
Learn how to build using Snowflake's native AI capabilities, with CoCo as your AI coding assistant.
Get Started
Take the next step with Snowflake
Start your introductory trial with $40 in free CoCo inference credits²
- Accelerate end-to-end development
- Context-aware by default
- Open, extensible and production-ready
Snowflake CoCo
Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers here about Snowflake CoCo features and how it can help you build faster.
What is Snowflake CoCo?
Snowflake CoCo a Data-native AI coding agent, built to speed time to value across modern data stack.
Deeply aware of your enterprise’s data, compute, governance, and operational semantics, CoCo turns complex data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and agent-building tasks into simple and informed conversations with high accuracy and trust.
Is CoCo the same as Cortex Code?
Yes. Snowflake CoCo is simply the new name for Cortex Code. The product functionality and architecture remain the same. The rename reflects a broader vision for AI-powered development within Snowflake, but existing capabilities and workflows are unchanged.
Together with Snowflake CoWork, CoCo provides customers with an agentic control plane that lets them manage and orchestrate agent behavior.
How much does Snowflake CoCo cost?
Snowflake CoCo is billed based on token consumption. Snowflake also offers trial access with free credits for new users.
View Snowflake pricing for the latest details.
What’s the difference between CoCo Desktop, CLI and Snowsight?
CoCo is available across multiple interfaces so you can work where you already build:
- Desktop App: Full agentic development on data available in a native desktop IDE
- Snowsight: Built into Snowflake for SQL, notebooks and analytics workflows
- CLI: Runs in your terminal for local development, automation and CI pipelines
All interfaces share the same core capability: CoCo understands your Snowflake environment and generates code grounded in your real data and permissions.
What are CoCo Skills and how do I use them?
CoCo Skills are built-in specialized workflows that allow CoCo to complete complex data and development tasks for you. These include things like:
- Searching your data catalog
- Generating and running SQL
- Parsing dbt projects
- Comparing datasets and validating outputs
You do not need to invoke Skills manually, although you can. Simply describe what you want in natural language and CoCo automatically selects and coordinates the right tools.
To learn more, explore Snowflake CoCo documentation.
How does cost governance work in CoCo?
AI cost governance is foundational to CoCo rather than an administrative feature added after deployment. The same role-based access controls that already govern your Snowflake environment govern CoCo, so you don’t have to configure a new security model or manage a parallel identity layer.
