Releasesby GlyphGenie Agents enhancements
- Chat mode in Genie One : You can now submit prompts to a Genie Agent in Chat mode from Genie One. Cancel Agent mode responses through the API : You can now cancel in-progress Agent mode responses through the API. See the Cancel Genie agent response API .
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You can now view real-time logs for your Python UDFs in Cloud Logging
You can now view real-time logs for your Python UDFs in Cloud Logging. This feature is generally available .
Cortex Extension references in agent skills (General availability)
Referencing a Cortex Extension from an agent skill is now generally available. Set the skill source type to CORTEX_EXTENSION and path to the extension's fully qualified name, and Snowflake expands the reference into the extension's member skills at request time, so you don't list each skill individually.
Cortex Agents Coding Agent (General availability)
The Cortex Agents Coding Agent is now generally available. Add the code_toolset_all tool type to a Cortex Agent, and Snowflake provisions and manages a sandbox backed by the same runtime that powers Snowflake CoCo: bash, file read/write/edit, grep, glob, web search, SQL execution, and skills.
Organization user types (General availability)
With this release, you can specify whether an organization user represents a person or a service. Set the TYPE property to SERVICE for a service or application that interacts with Snowflake without human interaction. If you don't specify a type, the organization user is a PERSON user, which matches the previous behavior.
Semantic Studio (Preview)
Semantic Studio is now available in public preview for all accounts. Semantic Studio is the authoring environment for semantic views in Workspaces, combining conversational authoring with CoCo, direct YAML editing, and deployment to the live Snowflake object in a single surface.
Knowledge Catalog support for importing metadata from dbt Core and MetricFlow is available in Preview
Knowledge Catalog support for importing metadata from dbt Core and MetricFlow is available in Preview . You can use the gcloud alpha dataplex dbt metadata-jobs command to extract and import technical, semantic (MetricFlow), operational, data quality, and lineage metadata from dbt Core artifacts into Knowledge Catalog.
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Genie Code is now available as a Lakeflow Jobs task (Beta)
You can now run prompts with Genie Code as a task in a Lakeflow Job. Genie Code runs your prompt autonomously. It can read upstream task outputs and call tools as needed. The task returns a link to the resulting Genie Code conversation with its response. See Genie Code task for jobs .
Genie Code for AI Runtime (Public Preview)
Use Genie Code to develop and troubleshoot deep learning workloads in notebooks connected to AI Runtime. Now in Public Preview , it generates distributed training code, resolves environment and dependency issues, and debugs GPU and distributed workload failures. See Use Genie Code with AI Runtime .
Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes
- Hide pages in published dashboards : Dashboard authors can now hide a page so that it doesn't appear when the dashboard is published, while keeping it in the dashboard for authors. See Hide a page in published dashboards . Path maps : You can now use the path map visualization to show routes and connections between locations on a map.
Genie Agents enhancements
- Agent mode APIs : The Agent mode APIs for Genie Agents are now generally available. Run Agent mode programmatically to integrate it into your own applications, such as chatbots, scheduled reports, and internal tools. See the Agent mode API reference .
Genie One enhancements
- Open Unity Catalog tables in Genie : You can now open Unity Catalog tables directly in Genie without navigating to Catalog Explorer. See Open tables . Tables in chat : Opening a table from chat keeps you in the conversation. View overview details, columns, and sample data next to your chat.
The Genie One desktop app for macOS is in Beta
The Genie One desktop app is now in Beta . The native macOS app opens Genie One on your desktop instead of in a browser tab, so business users can chat with data in natural language, work with their threads and documents, and use Genie Agents without a browser. See Use Genie One on desktop .
Connect to the Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams with your workspace URL (Public Preview)
When you sign in to the Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams, you can now enter your workspace URL instead of a server hostname to connect to your Databricks account. See Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams .
Genie Code scheduled tasks will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
Genie Code scheduled tasks will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in October 2026. You can schedule Genie Code to run a prompt on a recurring schedule.