Cortex Agents

Snowflake Cortex Agents is an agent framework in which an agent specification declares orchestration instructions, models and tool types. Individual tool types, including the Coding Agent toolset (code_toolset_all), are configured per agent.

AI capabilities recorded

• Coding Agent

  Active · verified 2026-09-22

  The Snowflake-managed coding sandbox provisioned for a Cortex Agent when the code_toolset_all tool type is configured. Snowflake documents that code_toolset_all automatically provisions the complete set of sandbox tools: bash (shell command execution), read, write (create or overwrite files), edit, grep, glob, web_search, snowflake_sql_execute (read-only SELECT and SHOW against Snowflake; documented as able to write to stages) and skill execution. Snowflake also documents that new tools added to the sandbox are automatically included without changes to the existing request or agent specification, so the toolset is a bundle whose membership can expand. The sandbox can mount Snowflake workspace objects read/write, and file changes written into a mounted workspace persist according to Snowflake workspace behaviour. This record covers only the code_toolset_all Coding Agent toolset, not generic Cortex Agents functionality.