Releasesby GlyphRestricted 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.
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Conversational analytics now supports questions about market basket analysis
Conversational analytics now supports questions about market basket analysis . This feature is generally available (GA).
Share metric views with OpenSharing (Beta)
You can now share metric views with Databricks users in other metastores or accounts using OpenSharing. See Add metric views to a share and Read shared metric views .
Genie One enhancements
- Ask Genie button hidden when unsupported : In embedded dashboards, the Ask Genie button is now hidden when it isn't supported. See Ask Genie in embedded dashboards . Push notifications for scheduled tasks (Public Preview) : The Genie mobile app can now send push notifications for scheduled tasks to iOS devices. See Push notifications .
Web search in Genie One (Beta)
Genie One can now search the public web to answer questions that need current information, such as recent releases, third-party documentation, or news. Genie One decides when to search and cites the sources it uses, showing each as a link you can open. See Search the web .
Gemini Enterprise: Latency and error rate views for agents
To monitor operational telemetry for your agents, use the two new views on the Observability tab: Latency: Shows response times for your agents. This view displays p50 (median) and p95 (95th percentile) metrics for Time to First Token (TTFT), Time to First Answer (TTFA), and Time to Last Token (TTLT).
Gemini Enterprise: General availability of Workflow Builder (formerly Agent Designer)
Workflow Builder (formerly known as Agent Designer) is generally available (GA) in Gemini Enterprise. Workflow Builder enables users across your organization to build multi-step automated workflows to streamline tasks and connect to enterprise data.
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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.
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.
Cortex Agents asynchronous API (General availability)
The Cortex Agents asynchronous API is now generally available on AWS and Microsoft Azure.
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.
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.
Multimodal AI_SUMMARIZE for automatic theme summarization (Public Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AI_SUMMARIZE is now available in public preview, enabling customers to summarize text and multimodal content, including images and documents, directly in Snowflake.
Embedding Streamlit in Snowflake apps in external pages (General availability)
Embedding Streamlit in Snowflake apps in external pages is now generally available. You can render a container-runtime app inside a page you host, such as a customer portal or an internal dashboard, using a single tag.