DEV Community: Dash

Hot off the press -- Snowflake Cortex Code in Snowsight is now GA!

Dash — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:40:50 +0000

Building and scaling AI apps natively on your data just got a massive upgrade.

Here is what is included in this release:

⚡ Rapid prototyping to production: execute large, multi-step projects directly in Snowsight.
🔒 Enterprise-grade governance: built-in controls and observability for regulated environments.
💸 Cost-aware automation: specialized skills for cost optimization and agentic ML workflows.
🪟 Cross-platform CLI: native Windows support removes friction for engineering teams.

🙌 My absolute new favorite in CLI: Agent Teams!

Here's what I tried: "Build a Streamlit chat app in a new folder that streams responses from the Cortex Agent. Use a team of 3 agents (client, UI, config) with a shared event contract defined upfront to avoid integration mismatches."

🤯 I'm still blown away by how well the Agent Teams handled that shared event contract. If you had a team of agents to automate your workflow today, what's the first project you'd assign them? Let's discuss in comments👇

🔗 Get started in mins: https://www.snowflake.com/en/developers/guides/getting-started-with-cortex-code-cli/

Let's learn together!

[DYK with Dash] Want a policy enforcement layer over your AI coding assistant?

Dash — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:51:02 +0000

🙌 Snowflake Cortex Code CLI has a programmable hooks system that fires on 11 lifecycle events -- PreToolUse, PostToolUse, SessionStart, Stop, and more. You write a shell script, and if it returns exit code 2, the operation is HARD BLOCKED.

↳ Validate every bash command before it runs
↳ Block writes to protected files
↳ Log every tool call for audit
↳ Inject context at session start

This is guardrails-as-code for AI-assisted development.

Share this with your platform team -- they need to see this 👇

📖 Get started: https://www.snowflake.com/en/developers/guides/getting-started-with-cortex-code-cli/

Let's learn together!

[DYK with Dash] Build your own AI sub-agents with... Markdown?!

Dash — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:23:17 +0000

🙌 Drop a Markdown file with YAML frontmatter into .cortex/agents/ and Snowflake Cortex Code turns it into a fully functional specialized sub-agent with scoped tool access.

↳ Define a code-reviewer agent that only has Read access
↳ Create a migration-checker with Bash + SQL
↳ Share them with your team through version control

That's it. Your team's best practices, encoded as agents.

What custom agent would you build? 👇

📖 Get started: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/cortex-code/cortex-code-cli

Let's learn together!

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Data governance just became a conversation, not a workflow.

Dash — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:22:04 +0000

🤔 If you've ever tried to get a full picture of your governance posture, you know the drill -- run classification in one place, write masking policies
somewhere else, dig through access history six months ago, and still not really know what's covered.

🙌 We built something to fix that. Data Governance Skills for Snowflake Cortex Code let you govern your data by just... asking.

"What's my governance maturity score?" gives you a 0-5 score across classification, protection, and access monitoring. Per database. With the actual gaps called out.

🤯 The thing I like most -- these aren't generic AI prompts hoping the SQL is right. There are 100+ verified query patterns under the hood, built
specifically for governance views.

Classification, masking, row access policies, data quality via DMFs, lineage with impact analysis -- all in natural language, all native to Snowflake Horizon Catalog. No external catalog to sync. No metadata that's hours behind.

A data steward can now do in one conversation what used to be a sprint across multiple teams!

Available now in Cortex Code CLI. Check it out and let me know what you think: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/cortex-code/cortex-code-cli

[DYK with Dash] Git branching... but for AI conversations?!

Dash — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:13:18 +0000

🤯 Type '/fork' mid-conversation in Snowflake Cortex Code and it creates a branch of your session at any point you choose. Try a risky refactor, explore a wild idea -- and if it goes sideways, your original session is still right there waiting for you.

↳ '/fork' -- branch from any message
↳ '/fork my-experiment' -- name it for easy recall
↳ '/rewind 3' -- or just roll back 3 messages

This is git-branch thinking applied to your AI workflow. Experiment fearlessly!

Try it: '/fork' your next risky experiment and tell me what you explored 👇

Get started: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/cortex-code/cortex-code-cli

Let's learn together!

CortexCode #Snowflake #AI #Developers #DataEngineering #Productivity

[DYK with Dash] Cortex Code has a secret weapon most people walk right past!

Dash — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:34:54 +0000

❄️ Type #DB.SCHEMA.TABLE directly in your Snowflake Cortex Code prompt and BOOM -- it auto-injects the full column metadata, primary keys, row count, and sample rows into context. No more copy-pasting DESCRIBE output. No more guessing column names.

👉 Just prefix any fully-qualified table name with # and the agent instantly knows your schema
👉 Autocomplete kicks in after you type #
👉 Works with any table in your Snowflake account

Stop manually feeding context. Let the CLI do it for you!

Try this right now: type # and pick a table -- then drop your result in the comments 👇

📖 Docs: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/cortex-code/cortex-code-cli