AI & agents
Snowflake announces always-on agent Bots
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- Snowflake Newsroom
Summary
At its Expedition 2026 conference, Snowflake announced always-on Bots for CoCo, its coding agent for data teams, and CoWork, its agent for knowledge workers. A Bot inherits the user's permissions and context, plans and executes goals on its own, and brings in a human only when approval is needed. Recurring automations, Slack and spreadsheet integrations, a mobile app, and team-level memory and skill sharing were also announced, with staged availability by feature.
Why it matters for our work
Agents are shifting from tools that wait for questions to coworkers that work in the background, now materializing inside enterprise data platforms. Operating strictly within permissions and keeping audit trails will be key to large-scale adoption.
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