Snowflake has announced Cortex Agents, a platform for building, governing, and scaling enterprise AI agents. Key capabilities include MCP connectors for integrating with external tools like Jira, Salesforce, GitHub, and Slack; agent skills for reusable modular task packages; a sandboxed Python code execution environment; multi-tenancy with row-level data isolation; agent versioning with commit-based lifecycle management and instant rollback; resource budgets for granular cost control at agent and team levels; and Cortex Agent Evaluations using the GPA (Goal-Plan-Action) framework to measure tool selection accuracy, answer correctness, and logical consistency. The platform is designed to move AI agents from prototyping to production within Snowflake's existing security and governance perimeter.
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