Releasesby GlyphCortex Agents asynchronous API (General availability)
The Cortex Agents asynchronous API is now generally available on AWS and Microsoft Azure.
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MiniMax H3 and H3 Max are 50% off on AI Gateway
MiniMax H3 and H3 Max are 50% off on AI Gateway from August 30 through September 13, in partnership with MiniMax. The discount covers requests billed through AI Gateway, at every duration and in every aspect ratio the model supports.
AI Search now supports GLM-5.3 Flash
AI Search now supports @cf/zai-org/glm-5.3-flash for text generation. The model has a 1,048,576-token context window and runs on Workers AI. To configure the model for an AI Search instance, refer to Supported models .
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Snowflake Native Apps: Code execution tools for Cortex Agents
Providers can now add the code_execution and code_toolset_all sandbox tools to Cortex Agents created by a Snowflake Native App.
Snowflake recommends transitioning from Cortex Analyst to Cortex Agents
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.
Data lineage for Cortex Agents
You can now use data lineage to see which data a Cortex Agent can reach through the tools declared in its specification. A semantic view that a Cortex Analyst tool references, and a Cortex Search service that a Cortex Search tool references, both appear upstream of the agent.
Restricted Session Scope for agents (General availability)
With this release, Restricted Session Scope (RSS) is generally available. An RSS is a privilege ceiling that limits what an agent can do on behalf of a user. It intersects with RBAC and never grants privileges the user doesn't already have through their roles.
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.
Version targeting for Cortex Agent and Cortex Analyst evaluations (General availability)
Cortex Agent and Cortex Analyst evaluations now let you control the versioned configuration used for scoring: Version targeting pins the configuration under evaluation, not the agent behavior that gets evaluated: each run invokes the agent again and scores a newly generated trace.
AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT support for client-side encrypted stages and network-restricted accounts (General availability)
AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT now support documents stored on stages that use client-side or server-side encryption, including in accounts that use PrivateLink or other network policies that restrict public network access to stages. For more information, see the following topics: