# Snowflake adds business context and controls for AI agents

> Snowflake announced tools for grounding and governing enterprise agents, plus a public preview of model-training services for customer data.

Oossa · 2026-11-03 · https://oossa.com/en/snowflake-adds-business-context-and-controls-for-ai-agents

At its Expedition 2026 conference, Snowflake announced Business Ontology, a framework for setting approved business definitions that its CoCo and CoWork agents can use. It is in private preview, with public preview planned soon.

Snowflake also expanded Cortex AI Gateway with tools to monitor agents, detect abuse, control costs and manage access to models and external tools. Separately, Cortex Training entered public preview, letting customers tailor open-weight AI models using their own information without managing the underlying infrastructure.

## The facts

- Business Ontology is in private preview; Snowflake says public preview is coming soon.
- Cortex Training is in public preview.

## Why it matters

For companies using Snowflake agents, approved business definitions could help reduce conflicting answers, while the gateway adds controls over agent activity; the announcement does not establish how well these features work in practice.

## Sources & references

1. [Snowflake expands agentic AI platform with business context and governance tools](https://siliconangle.com/2026/11/03/snowflake-expands-agentic-ai-platform-with-business-context-and-governance-tools/) – SiliconANGLE, 2026-11-03
2. [Governed Context, Security and Spend Controls for AI Agents | Snowflake](https://www.snowflake.com/content/snowflake-site/global/en/blog/ai-agents-governance-ai-security-cost-control) – Snowflake, 2026-11-03
3. [Build Faster, Work Smarter with AI Agents and Apps Grounded in Data | Snowflake](https://www.snowflake.com/content/snowflake-site/global/en/blog/ai-agents-governed-data-business-context) – Snowflake, 2026-11-03
4. [Business Ontology: Governed Context for AI | Snowflake](https://www.snowflake.com/content/snowflake-site/global/en/blog/business-ontology-context) – Snowflake, 2026-11-03
5. [Cortex Training: Serverless Fine-Tuning for Open-Weight LLMs](https://www.snowflake.com/content/snowflake-site/global/en/blog/cortex-training-fine-tune-open-weight-llms) – Snowflake, 2026-11-03

Last updated: 2026-11-03