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Snowflake recommends transitioning from Cortex Analyst to Cortex Agents

UpdateVerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Snowflake recommends transitioning to Cortex Agents , which supports every Cortex Analyst capability with higher answer quality. Snowflake adds new natural language analytics capabilities to Cortex Agents.

Topics: AI agents

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More Snowflake Cortex AI releases

Every Snowflake Cortex AI release
DateRelease
Aug 30Cortex Agents asynchronous API (General availability)
GA
Aug 26Cortex Extension references in agent skills (General availability)
GA
Aug 26Cortex Agents Coding Agent (General availability)
GA
Sep 1Snowflake Native Apps: Code execution tools for Cortex Agents
Update
Sep 2Data lineage for Cortex Agents
Update
Sep 3Restricted Session Scope for agents (General availability)
GA
Aug 21Version targeting for Cortex Agent and Cortex Analyst evaluations (General availability)
GA
Aug 20AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT support for client-side encrypted stages and network-restricted accounts (General availability)
GA

Also shipped on Aug 28, 2026

Snowflake in August 2026
DateRelease
Aug 28Monitor and cap external provider costs
DatabricksAgent Bricks and Mosaic AIBeta
Aug 28Unity Catalog Skills (Beta)
DatabricksUnity CatalogBeta
Aug 28The Advanced Unused Content Cleanup feature is now generally available
Google CloudLookerGA
Aug 28Looker visual modeling canvas for BigQuery enters preview
Google CloudLookerPreview
Aug 28Conversational Analytics verified queries , also known as golden queries , are now generally available
Google CloudLookerGA
Aug 28Now available in preview, model localization is supported for imported projects
Google CloudLookerPreview

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