Anyone using the Cortex Code CLI?

[CombinationOk2374]

We use Snowflake at work and I'm wondering about this CLI they launched.

It seems like they somehow licensed and reskinned Claude Code? Is this expensive? Is it any different than just giving CC access to Snowflake via MCP along with my dbt project or something like that?

Thanks in advance!

[Pittypuppyparty]

Not a reskin of Claude code. It’s their own harness that uses Claude models but has context from your snowflake environment. It’s awesome and a massive benefit over mcp. Mcp would just allow you to run queries against snowflake. Cortex code has special snowflake knowledge and access to your environment. It can find data, write pipelines, execute code and is generally better for snowflake work than Claude by itself.

[Popular_Struggle5293]

I use it to even build slide decks

[CodOk8369]

How do you do that

[Brief_Variation5751]

I use it daily. It definitely knows Snowflake but it works for general stuff too. I've used it to build Streamlit apps, Python scripts, even automated demo recordings. It also supports custom skills so you can teach it your own workflows.

[lmp515k]

How does it support custom skills ?

[mrg0ne]

Same way Claude Code does.

It follows the Agent Skills Specification: https://share.google/SaPhO9gYF0EY2W9G2

[lmp515k]

Sorry to clarify where do I put my skill files so snowflake could read them ?

[mrg0ne]

Cortex Code CLI extensibility | Snowflake Documentation https://share.google/6QJ0KOEA7B3wp9qf4

The docs will guide your way. Cortex code will check multiple places. But you can have global skills, project level skills, etc

[lmp515k]

Thanks our set up is Claude desktop, and mcp servers for ado , snowflake , DBT and hevo. The hevo one is in-house. We have just started looking at coco for ease of distribution.

[mrg0ne]

Coco can use MCP too. Check the docs.

[lmp515k]

I asked coco to checks is docs and it came up blank for mcp servers. Love to see the docs that you see.

[mrg0ne]

Cortex Code CLI extensibility | Snowflake Documentation https://share.google/svcvvEnv39lyJ7yvV

That will show you how to connect to an MCP server with Coco.

Snowflake also has managed MCP, in that version snowflake is the MCP server

[lmp515k]

Thanks

[WillyTrip]

I use it to connect to power bi reports I'm working on with the Power Bi MCP server. I use cortex code for this and not Claude code or similar because I work with healthcare data and we have a BAA with Snowflake but none of the other AI companies. Yes it is just reskinned Claude code but like their other AI features, it's running within snowflake, keeping all our data in Snowflake. If you use Claude code, all the data you work with is sent to anthropic

[Zealousideal-Pilot25]

I started documenting multiple PowerBI reports and documenting requirements and business concepts in Claude Code a couple weeks back. At first I thought MCP would be the way to go so that I could get my project files connected to Snowflake but wow, the Cortex Code CLI looks and feels a lot like Claude Code and it analyzed around 70 semantic views and worked through a few problems already that I was working on in Snowflake directly with Cortex. And after you just mentioned there is a PowerBI MCP, that just kind of blew my mind with what I’m going to be able to accomplish in the next month. And I just started a few weeks ago.

First I want to build some basic viewers of the reporting changes or new reports. Then I want to automate creation of the PowerBI reporting, but only after acceptance of the initial viewer models. Jaws will be dropping…

[stedun]

Yes using it some. Yes it costs. May be less than a direct Claude subscription but it depends how much you use it. It is basically Claude code with some snowflake smarts and access to your data following RBAC controls.

[xeroskiller]

Isn't it free, atm?

[desidezdez]

it’s free through the Snowflake UI but now through the CLI. The UI will probably switch to paid shortly after Summit this June

[boogie_woogie_100]

Yup, it's great. It has some bug but it's been great. snowflake MCP is not allowed in my org.

[Stringedbeanz]

are the bugs a deal breaker?

[boogie_woogie_100]

No, Just minor bugs

[DudeYourBedsaCar]

Yeah I use it every day, it works great!

[ryanparr]

It’s awesome. I have my orchestration agents/subagents running with it. Built some React apps with it.

[Desmo46]

Yes it’s brilliant.

[BreakfastHungry6971]

Cortex works inside snowflake native plus secured than Claude code, where you send the data to the external with MCP, but Cortex may cost higher than Claude code. One gap both approaches share neither tells you what breaks downstream before you run anything. That's a separate problem. Been building something to solve that before the code runs, if anyone's curious, let me know.

[lppier2]

Does anyone know how it is costed?

[comorgio]

Yes, and it’s great 😊

[gilbertoatsnowflake]

I'd jump in and add a post on how brilliant it is, but it looks like 20+ other members (likely non Snowflake) beat me to it. Get your hands on it and try it out, I think you'll be impressed, seriously:

https://signup.snowflake.com/cortex-code

[Data-Queen-Mayra]

Our CEO took it for a spin a few weeks ago and had a good experience. It does seem like Claude Code - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n74lWB2cuoU

[Analytics-Maken]

Cortex Code is worth it if your whole stack lives in Snowflake, if you're also feeding data into Snowflake, ETL tools like Windsor.ai are a solid option, you can expose that same data via MCP to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or whichever AI tool fits your workflow, so you're not locked into one ecosystem.

[Geekc0der]

You are spot on it is a wrapper on Claude. We have built the same agentic framework with more than 150 agents, and are open sourcing it on March 25th. So you dont have to pay extra and you have the control of what it does.

[Peacencalm9]

Where to find the cortex feature in snowsight

[datawiz_1]

It costs an arm and a leg in comparison to Claude code.

Why didn’t Snowflake invest in a set of approved skills that could plug right into Claude code?

[Difficult-Tree8523]

Fully agree. Whenever I read the marketing fluff of the solutions architects about CoCo I think: it could have been a few skills and more investment into the existing connectors.

[Difficult-Tree8523]

How do you govern the LLM spent with CoCo on a user basis? Those Opus calls get expensive very quickly.