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✓ Editorially reviewedChecked: September 30, 2026

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Snowflake Cortex Agents

Snowflake Cortex Agents is classified by AgentenCode as a data agent platform from Snowflake. It belongs to the Service, Sales & Data category. This English profile does not maintain a separate factual record: it renders the same underlying evidence, trust and history data as the German profile.

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Service & saleseditorial classification

Snowflakeprovider

10 primary sourcessource status

September 30, 2026last verification

AgentenTrust 2.0 · EU & governance evidence

Trust, privacy and control evidence for Snowflake Cortex Agents

Direct answer: AgentenCode currently documents 8 of 36 normalized trust controls for this profile. Missing fields remain Unknown and are never automatically interpreted as “no”.

EU AI ActEvidence context only. AgentenCode does not infer legal applicability or compliance from individual product controls.

GDPRPrivacy and security signals are documented field by field. Data residency alone is not a compliance or transfer assessment.

Privacy contextPrivacy & data2 of 8 documentedResidency, training, retention, DPA, subprocessors and processing scope.

Security contextSecurity & access5 of 10 documentedEncryption, SSO, SCIM, RBAC, roles and credential handling.

Human controlHuman control0 of 10 documentedApproval, oversight, permissions and stop or rollback controls.

TraceabilityAudit & traceability1 of 8 documentedAudit logs, APIs, SIEM, observability, tracing and activity history.

Important: these numbers show evidence coverage, not a product rating. 0 of 10 means that no field-level public evidence is stored for those ten controls in the current dataset. It does not mean the product lacks those capabilities.

Field-level evidence

Documented controls and values from primary sources.

Documented yesDocumented valueUnknown remains unknown

High confidence

API · Rest

Yes — documented

Cortex Agents expose a documented agent:run API.

Scope: cortex_agents_agent_run · verified 2026-10-01 · Primary source ↗

High confidence

Governance · Audit logs · Available

Yes — documented

Cortex Agent activity is represented in Snowflake audit/history views.

Scope: cortex_agent_activity · verified 2026-10-01 · Primary source ↗

High confidence

Governance · Custom roles

Yes — documented

Custom Snowflake roles can be used to scope Cortex Agent access.

Scope: cortex_agents · verified 2026-10-01 · Primary source ↗

High confidence

Governance · Monitoring Access Control

Yes — documented

Monitoring access is explicitly privilege-gated.

Scope: cortex_agents · verified 2026-10-01 · Primary source ↗

High confidence

Governance · Observability

Yes — documented

Cortex Agent observability includes production conversations and execution telemetry.

Scope: cortex_agents · verified 2026-10-01 · Primary source ↗

High confidence

Governance · RBAC

Yes — documented

Cortex Agent access uses Snowflake RBAC.

Scope: cortex_agents · verified 2026-10-01 · Primary source ↗

High confidence

Governance · SCIM

Yes — documented

Users and roles that govern Cortex Agent access can be provisioned through Snowflake SCIM.

Scope: snowflake_account_users_and_roles_for_cortex_agents · verified 2026-10-01 · Primary source ↗

High confidence

Governance · SSO · Oidc

Yes — documented

Cortex Agent users can authenticate through Snowflake's OIDC federation controls.

Scope: snowflake_account_access_to_cortex_agents · verified 2026-10-01 · Primary source ↗

High confidence

Governance · SSO · Saml

Yes — documented

Cortex Agent users can authenticate through Snowflake's SAML SSO controls.

Scope: snowflake_account_access_to_cortex_agents · verified 2026-10-01 · Primary source ↗

High confidence

Governance · Tracing

Yes — documented

Cortex Agent runs produce OpenTelemetry-style trace data.

Scope: cortex_agents · verified 2026-10-01 · Primary source ↗

High confidence

Privacy · Data residency · Available

Yes — documented

Snowflake accounts have regional deployment controls, and Cortex cross-region inference can be disabled at the account level.

Scope: cortex_agents_account_data_and_inference_controls · verified 2026-10-02 · Primary source ↗

High confidence

Privacy · Data residency · Customer Region Selectable

Yes — documented

Organizations choose the supported Snowflake account region that hosts Cortex Agents and account data.

Scope: snowflake_account_hosting_cortex_agents · verified 2026-10-02 · Primary source ↗

High confidence

Protocols · Mcp · Client

Yes — documented

Cortex Agents can consume MCP servers as agent tools.

Scope: cortex_agents · verified 2026-10-01 · Primary source ↗

Evidence-backed overview

What is Snowflake Cortex Agents?

Product-specific evidence for Snowflake Cortex Agents

This profile links 10 unique primary sources across the product profile, field-level evidence, trust controls and documented relations. The points below describe this product’s stored evidence rather than generic characteristics of Service, Sales & Daten.

Data Residency

Yes · Scope: cortex_agents_account_data_and_inference_controls · verified 2026-10-02.

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Region auswählbar

Yes · Scope: snowflake_account_hosting_cortex_agents · verified 2026-10-02.

Primary source ↗

Audit Logs

Yes · Scope: cortex_agent_activity · verified 2026-10-01.

Primary source ↗

Custom Roles

Yes · Scope: cortex_agents · verified 2026-10-01.

Primary source ↗

governance · monitoring_access_control

Yes · Scope: cortex_agents · verified 2026-10-01.

Primary source ↗

governance · observability

Yes · Scope: cortex_agents · verified 2026-10-01.

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AgentenCode treats this page as a reference profile rather than a ranking. Product facts are separated from editorial classification, and the profile is tied to a specific verification date. If a capability is not backed by sufficiently precise public evidence, it remains unknown instead of being inferred from marketing language or from similar products.

2primary sources

13field-level evidence claims

8documented trust controls

1history events

How to read the evidence

The field-level evidence layer records a value, a scope, a confidence level, a verification date and one or more primary sources. Scope matters: an enterprise-only security feature must not be generalized to every plan or deployment surface. The same rule applies to hosting, privacy, audit and protocol claims.

AgentenCode also keeps Unknown distinct from false. A missing claim means the public dataset does not currently contain sufficiently precise evidence for that field. A negative value is used only when a reliable primary source explicitly documents a restriction or non-availability.

Decision context

Provider and category

Snowflake Cortex Agents is documented under Service & sales and is associated with Snowflake. Category labels help navigation but do not replace product-specific evidence.

Verification status

The public profile is marked editorially reviewed and was last checked on September 30, 2026.

Trust coverage

8 of 36 normalized trust controls currently have field-level public evidence. The remaining controls are not treated as negative findings.

Source-first use

For procurement, security or legal decisions, use the linked primary sources and verify the plan, region and configuration that apply to your organization.

Capabilities, strengths and deployment checks for Snowflake Cortex Agents

Snowflake Cortex Agents is classified as Data Agent Platform from Snowflake. The profile’s editorial layer is derived from the stored use cases, strengths and checks below; claims about security, privacy or governance remain separate and require field-level evidence.

Datenfragen

This use case is part of the stored profile for Snowflake Cortex Agents. The related strength is “Direkter Snowflake-Kontext”. In a production evaluation, the practical boundary to verify is: Warehouse- und Modellkosten begrenzen.

Analytische Agenten

This use case is part of the stored profile for Snowflake Cortex Agents. The related strength is “Strukturierte und unstrukturierte Daten”. In a production evaluation, the practical boundary to verify is: Datenzugriff über Rollen genau prüfen.

Unternehmensdaten durchsuchen

This use case is part of the stored profile for Snowflake Cortex Agents. The related strength is “Governance über Snowflake-Rollen”. In a production evaluation, the practical boundary to verify is: Semantische Modelle und Antwortqualität testen.

Datenbasierte Workflows

This use case is part of the stored profile for Snowflake Cortex Agents. The related strength is “Tool- und Datenorchestrierung”. In a production evaluation, the practical boundary to verify is: Warehouse- und Modellkosten begrenzen.

What to verify before adoption

Warehouse- und Modellkosten begrenzen. Treat undocumented controls as Unknown and verify the exact plan, region and deployment scope.
Datenzugriff über Rollen genau prüfen. Treat undocumented controls as Unknown and verify the exact plan, region and deployment scope.
Semantische Modelle und Antwortqualität testen. Treat undocumented controls as Unknown and verify the exact plan, region and deployment scope.

Editorial boundary: The use-case and strength descriptions are product-specific editorial context based on the stored profile. Trust, privacy and governance statements are only presented as facts when field-level primary-source evidence exists.

Verified history

The public history layer records only confirmed profile changes and verification events. Monitoring signals are not published as product facts until they have been reviewed.

September 30, 2026 · New profile

Official sources

This profile links 10 unique primary sources across the product profile, field-level evidence, trust layer and documented relations. Provider documentation remains authoritative when the product changes between verification cycles.

Frequently asked questions

What is Snowflake Cortex Agents?

Snowflake Cortex Agents is listed by AgentenCode as a service & sales agent or agentic product from Snowflake.

How much trust evidence is documented for Snowflake Cortex Agents?

The current trust layer documents 8 of 36 normalized controls. Missing controls remain unknown rather than being treated as false.

When was this profile last checked?

The current profile verification date is September 30, 2026. The linked primary sources remain authoritative if the product changes between checks.

Method note: AgentenCode does not certify GDPR or EU AI Act compliance. It documents evidence that can support a separate legal, security or procurement assessment.