Snowflake announces always-on background agents for CoCo and CoWork
CoCo and CoWork Bots, coming soon to private preview, can run work in the background within a user’s permissions and return only when a decision or final approval is needed.
AT A GLANCE
Key points
- CoCo and CoWork Bots are coming soon to private preview.
- The bots inherit the user’s existing role, access rights and permissions.
- CoCo Automations is generally available with audit trails and task history.
What is changing?
Snowflake announced always-on Bots for its CoCo coding agent and CoWork knowledge-work agent on November 3. After a user sets a high-level goal, the bots can plan and complete work in the background. CoCo and CoWork Bots are not generally available; Snowflake says they are coming soon to private preview.
The bots inherit the user’s access rights, role context and permissions, surfacing work when a critical decision or final approval is required. CoCo Automations, now generally available, can schedule recurring workflows while keeping an audit trail and task history for every run. CoWork’s Async Agent API can also continue longer, multi-step work in the background.
Slack, Excel, Google Sheets and mobile connections are in public preview. Snowflake says CoWork is used by more than 5,800 accounts and CoCo by more than 9,100, based on the company’s internal four-week measurement. Although inherited permissions are useful, teams should combine least-privilege access, spending limits, audit records and human approval.
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Source date: 3 November 2026.
Published by AI Radar: 3 Nov 2026, 19:04 (Istanbul, UTC+3).
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