Snowflake Inc. announced that Cortex Code CLI, its AI coding agent, is expanding beyond Snowflake-native workflows to support external data systems, starting with dbt and Apache Airflow.

The update enables developers to use Snowflake’s context-aware AI assistant directly within popular data engineering environments, helping build, debug and optimize pipelines across multi-system stacks. New features include expanded AI model choice, enhanced governance controls and enterprise-grade security.

Snowflake is also introducing a standalone monthly subscription for Cortex Code CLI, allowing teams not yet running on Snowflake to access the tool independently of Snowflake compute, lowering adoption barriers.

Source: Business Wire