cortex-agents-tutorial

What problem does it solve?

This tutorial helps teams build and deploy Snowflake Cortex Agents that orchestrate across structured and unstructured data, removing friction when creating production-ready AI assistants that query databases and document stores.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Guided, step-by-step lessons to set up environment, sample data, semantic views, and search services.
• Full agent specification examples showing CREATE AGENT with tools, tool_resources, and required execution_environment for Cortex Analyst.
• End-to-end testing and parsing using DATA_AGENT_RUN and Python examples to surface thinking, generated SQL, and tool results.
• Comprehensive references and troubleshooting covering common errors, permissions, and performance best practices for retail and documentation RAG scenarios.

Quick Start

Start the tutorial and follow the guided steps to create semantic views, a Cortex Search service, and a CREATE AGENT specification that routes queries between Analyst and Search.