Guides for AI agent context in preview
Guides are markdown documents in MotherDuck holding metric definitions, join rules, and conventions that AI agents read automatically through the MCP server. Guides can be shared org-wide or kept private.
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BigQuery Data Transfer Service adds incremental Klaviyo transfers in preview
Klaviyo transfers to BigQuery can now load data incrementally instead of in full.
Data quality monitoring dashboard (Public preview)
The data quality monitoring dashboard is now available in public preview for Enterprise Edition accounts. The dashboard provides an account-wide view of data quality health in Snowsight.
Upcoming general availability of Unity Gateway
Unity Gateway, the Databricks governance solution for enterprise AI, is scheduled for general availability soon. Built on Unity Catalog, Unity Gateway extends governance to the runtime interactions between models, agents, MCP servers, and tools.
Gemini Enterprise: New data stores and support for new actions (Preview)
The following data stores are available in Public Preview: Compute Engine Egnyte Sourcegraph Tavily Additionally, support for new actions is available in Public Preview for the following data stores: AirOps : Suggest Brand Kit edits and write grid. Egnyte : Create comments, create folders, create links, and upload files. Google Stitch : Edit screens.
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Monitor Logs mirroring into Microsoft Fabric
This capability shares telemetry from Azure Monitor Log Analytics workspaces into Microsoft Fabric, making observability data available in OneLake as Delta Parquet, the open format, without duplication and with near real-time availability. All Azure Monit
Copilot code review: Agent skills and MCP now generally available
Copilot code review support for agent skills and MCP servers is now generally available for all Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise users. Previously announced in public preview , these capabilities let you bring your team’s tools, standards, and external context directly into every code review.
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Role-based access control (RBAC) on Business and Enterprise
Admins can assign roles and grant scoped privileges on databases, shares, and platform resources from the Members and Roles page. RBAC is on Business and Enterprise plans; custom roles are also available for Enterprise.
Read and write to Cloudflare R2 Data Catalog
MotherDuck can now read from and write to Cloudflare R2 as a persisted Iceberg catalog.
Configurable maximum runtime for Flights
The Flights UI now includes a max runtime field so runs stop automatically if they exceed the set limit.
DuckDB 1.5.5 support
MotherDuck supports DuckDB 1.5.5.
Flights available in AWS Sydney and Tokyo regions
Flights are now available in AWS Sydney ap-southeast-2 and Tokyo ap-northeast-1 regions.
Org-wide view-only Flight visibility for Admins
Users with the Admin role have view-only access to every Flight in their organization. Running, editing, and deleting a Flight remain restricted to its creator.
CREATE SHARE defaults to UPDATE AUTOMATIC on DuckDB 1.5.5+
On DuckDB 1.5.5 and later, CREATE SHARE without an explicit update mode now defaults to UPDATE AUTOMATIC. Clients on 1.5.4 and earlier are unchanged.
MotherDuck on AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney and Tokyo)
MotherDuck is now available on AWS in ap-southeast-2 (Sydney) and ap-northeast-1 (Tokyo) for lower latency and regional data residency. Flights were not yet available in these regions at launch.