Tech · Releases
Snowflake Native Apps: Cortex Agents and MCP servers (General availability)
Fri, August 7, 2026
3 mo ago
Cortex Agents and MCP servers in Snowflake Native Apps are now generally available. Providers can create the following objects in an app’s setup script: Apps can also use inter-app communication so that one app’s agent calls another app’s a.
Every year
SQL queries as logical tables in semantic views (General availability)snowflakeAn event.4 mo agosnowflakeDetails →Support for variables in semantic views (General availability)snowflakeAn event.4 mo agosnowflakeDetails →SHOW CORTEX BASE MODELS command (General availability)snowflakeAn event.4 mo agosnowflakeDetails →
Snowflake Native Apps: Cortex Agents and MCP servers (General availability)snowflakeAn event.3 mo agosnowflake
AI_MULTI_EMBED support for large video files in semantic video search (General availability)snowflakeAn event.3 mo agosnowflakeDetails →Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot (General availability)snowflakeAn event.3 mo agosnowflakeDetails →AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT support for client-side encrypted stages and network-restricted accounts (General availability)snowflakeAn event.3 mo agosnowflakeDetails →Version targeting for Cortex Agent and Cortex Analyst evaluations (General availability)snowflakeAn event.3 mo agosnowflakeDetails →Cortex Agents Coding Agent (General availability)snowflakeAn event.2 mo agosnowflakeDetails →Cortex Extension references in agent skills (General availability)snowflakeAn event.2 mo agosnowflakeDetails →Cortex Agents asynchronous API (General availability)snowflakeAn event.2 mo agosnowflakeDetails →Restricted Session Scope for agents (General availability)snowflakeAn event.2 mo agosnowflakeDetails →Multimodal AI_SUMMARIZE for automatic theme summarization (Public Preview)snowflakeAn event.2 mo agosnowflakeDetails →Embedding Streamlit in Snowflake apps in external pages (General availability)snowflakeAn event.2 mo agosnowflakeDetails →Cortex AI Gateway (Preview)snowflakeAn event.2 mo agosnowflakeDetails →Cortex Agents object enhancements (General availability)snowflakeAn event.2 mo agosnowflakeDetails →Cortex Agents Compact API (Preview)snowflakeAn event.2 mo agosnowflakeDetails →Cortex AI Function Evaluation for measuring quality (Public Preview)snowflakeAn event.2 mo agosnowflakeDetails →Cortex AI Function Optimization for more efficient AI implementations (Public Preview)snowflakeAn event.2 mo agosnowflakeDetails →DCM Projects DEFINE SEMANTIC VIEW (General availability)snowflakeAn event.40 days agosnowflakeDetails →Cortex Agent code execution tool (General availability)snowflakeAn event.35 days agosnowflakeDetails →Coding agent MCP toolsnowflakeAn event.17 days agosnowflakeDetails →Also on Aug 7, 2026
Source, method and history
- Source
- snowflake
- How we know
- From the Releases API (releases.fru.dev), which reads each vendor's changelog.
- Who
- snowflake
- Recurs
- one-off
- More on Glyph
- releases.fru.dev
- Feed
- Subscribe to Releases
- Changes
- 2026-09-25: added to 2026-08-07