Snowflake CoCo Accelerates Enterprise AI Development: Launches Fast, Simple, Powerful Coding Agent

*This press release is a summary translation of the announcement made by Snowflake Inc. on June 2.

Snowflake CoCo automates tasks with an AI coding agent, making it easier for developers to build and manage complex data workflows.

Build in Any Environment:
Snowflake CoCo is available as a native desktop app and supports new extensions for Microsoft Excel, VS Code, and Claude Code, providing a seamless development environment from anywhere.

Real-Time Streaming:
Snowflake Datastream enables direct data streaming from existing Apache Kafka® apps and streaming systems into Snowflake, eliminating the need for separate brokers, connectors, or dedicated streaming infrastructure.

Proven at Scale:
Fanatics, Thomson Reuters, and WHOOP are using Snowflake CoCo to simplify complex data operations and accelerate AI adoption at scale.

Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the AI Data Cloud company, today announced major new features for Snowflake CoCo (formerly Cortex Code) at Snowflake Summit 26. Snowflake CoCo is a coding agent that accelerates development, enabling developers to automate workflows, build applications, and leverage AI on enterprise data through simple prompts. Snowflake also announced Snowflake Datastream (※6), a new fully managed streaming service for Apache Kafka® (※7). This integrates real-time data and AI on a single governed platform, making it easy to feed continuously flowing fresh data to AI applications and agents.

As the core of Snowflake's agentic control plane for enterprise AI, CoCo provides developers with a unified governance environment to manage workflows across data, models, and applications. CoCo's new features are available on desktop, mobile, and Slack interfaces, meeting developers in their work environment and enabling them to build, iterate, and deploy. CoCo can autonomously execute developer tasks, supporting end-to-end application development and deployment, allowing teams to produce production outcomes faster and more securely. With CoCo and Datastream, AI-assisted development and continuously flowing fresh data are integrated on a single platform, simplifying the construction of real-time AI applications.

Christian Kleinerman, Executive Vice President of Product at Snowflake, said:
"CoCo enables experienced developers to work much faster and more simply. It also opens the door for analysts and data-savvy business users who haven't been involved in building to create their own pipelines, automations, and AI applications. By having Snowflake Datastream deliver continuously flowing fresh data directly into Snowflake, you can build and operate real-time AI applications without the complexity of managing separate streaming infrastructure. By simply describing the desired outcome, AI-powered construction becomes possible, dramatically increasing the number of people contributing to an organization's AI strategy and accelerating the shift to the agentic enterprise."

Snowflake CoCo Drives the Agentic Enterprise, Supporting Developers' Work Environments

What sets CoCo apart is its deep integration with Snowflake's governed data platform, providing an AI agent that understands enterprise data, workflows, governance, and business context without pre-configuration. CoCo is delivered directly within the Snowflake platform and the tools and environments developers already use, enabling them to build powerful AI faster and more easily.

Fanatics, Thomson Reuters, and WHOOP are already using CoCo to accelerate building and operating data for AI. This results in faster time-to-value, reduced development costs, and more developers participating in AI in production.

New Features Enable More Developers to Leverage CoCo

Leverage CoCo in Existing Development Environments:
Developers can use CoCo in their everyday work environments. The new native desktop app, CoCo Desktop (※2), deeply integrates Snowflake's data, governance, and AI workflows into a familiar, full-featured development environment. Additionally, CoCo is accessible via the new CoCo Mobile App (※4) and CoCo Slackbot (※4) through Slack, enabling workflow initiation, task progress checks, and insight retrieval on the go. CoCo is also expanding integrations with major developer tools such as VS Code Extension (※4), Microsoft Excel Extension (※6), and the CoCo plugin for Claude Code (※1), helping teams build faster on the tools they already use.

Achieve Autonomous and Secure Task Execution:
CoCo can now execute tasks autonomously, eliminating the need for continuous user prompting. Automations (※4) support event-driven, iterative workflows for continuous monitoring, validation, and operational processes. All automation features are protected by Snowflake's role-based access control and support comprehensive audit logs. New Cloud Agents (※2) allow users to start work in Snowsight and run it securely in the cloud without needing to run anything locally on their laptop. Agents can run in the background and return results when work is complete, eliminating the need to wait within a session. The CoCo Agent SDK allows Cloud Agents functionality to be embedded directly into existing workflows. The secure local sandbox (※1) feature allows agents to operate in an isolated local environment, protecting sensitive files and system resources, enabling worry-free automation.

Share Best Practices Across Teams and Accelerate Development:
CoCo now enables common data engineering and A