Snowflake Launches Cortex Code Claude Code Plugin and MCP/ACP Integration — Positioning as 'Control Plane for the Agentic Enterprise'

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Snowflake announced on April 21 that Cortex Code now ships with a Claude Code plugin (private preview) and VS Code extension, letting developers use Snowflake's governed AI coding capabilities directly in their preferred editor. Cortex Code also adds MCP and Agent Communication Protocol (ACP) support for interfacing with external AI agents, plus new connectors for AWS Glue, Databricks, and Postgres. Over 50% of Snowflake customers are actively using Cortex Code since its November 2025 launch. Snowflake Intelligence now includes a personal work agent that learns individual preferences.