Snowflake Unveils Always-On CoCo and CoWork Bots for Background Work

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Snowflake announced on November 3, 2026, new always-on bots for CoCo, its coding agent for data teams, and CoWork, its personal work agent for knowledge workers. The bots are designed to plan and complete work in the background rather than wait for individual prompts.

The CoCo and CoWork Bots are coming soon to private preview. A user can set a high-level goal, such as preparing briefings for every customer meeting or keeping data pipelines healthy. The bot inherits that user’s access rights, role context and permissions, works within those boundaries and surfaces the work only when a critical decision or final approval is required.

That design makes the approval boundary central to the product: Snowflake is extending agents from answering requests to pursuing continuing assignments, while leaving existing access controls and human sign-off in place.

CoCo Automations is generally available, allowing data teams to schedule repeated workflows through CoCo and CoWork. Each run retains an audit trail and task history, and teams can suspend or rerun a job. For business users, CoWork can repeat an analysis on a set schedule; Snowflake’s example is a sales leader receiving a weekly report on sales performance, emerging trends and areas needing attention.

The generally available Async Agent API supports longer, multi-step CoWork tasks that continue in the background and resume after an interruption.