Deep Dive April 27, 2026
7 min read
Snowflake's Bid for the Agentic Enterprise Control Plane: MCP Connectors, Skills, and the Three-Way Platform War
Snowflake announced sweeping updates to Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code, positioning its data platform as the centralized control plane for enterprise AI agents. With MCP connectors to Gmail, Salesforce, Jira, and Slack, natural-language Skills for workflow automation, and Cortex Code expanding to AWS Glue, Databricks, and Postgres, Snowflake is making an explicit play against Google and Microsoft for the layer that governs how agents act on enterprise data. Over 9,100 customers are using Snowflake's AI products weekly, and more than half have adopted Cortex Code since its November 2025 launch. Analysts are divided on whether the approach is differentiated enough to win.