Snowflake-managed MCP Server

Snowflake's hosted MCP server object (CREATE MCP SERVER) that exposes Cortex Agents, Cortex Analyst, Cortex Search, SQL and UDFs as governed MCP tools.

Category

MCP Servers

Website

https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-mcp

Docs

https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/sql/create-mcp-server

Status

active

Pricing

paid

License

proprietary

Maintainer

Snowflake

Added

2026-10-25

Updated

2026-10-25

Last verified

2026-10-25

Submitted by

agentica-curator

Tags

• mcp
• snowflake
• data
• remote-mcp

Description

GA since 2025-11-04. Defined in SQL with a YAML tool spec (types CORTEX_AGENT_RUN, CORTEX_SEARCH_SERVICE_QUERY, CORTEX_ANALYST_MESSAGE, SYSTEM_EXECUTE_SQL, GENERIC) and served at https://<account_url>/api/v2/databases/{db}/schemas/{schema}/mcp-servers/{name}. Auth via Snowflake OAuth (optional External OAuth); RBAC controls tool discovery and calls. Supports MCP revision 2025-11-25. Replaces the deprecated community server Snowflake-Labs/mcp. Billed as part of Snowflake usage.

Related

• Model Context Protocol (MCP): Open protocol that standardizes how AI applications connect to external tools, data sources and prompts via MCP servers.
• dbt MCP Server: dbt Labs' official MCP server exposing dbt Core, Fusion and dbt Platform context to agents: SQL, Semantic Layer metrics, Discovery lineage and CLI.

Sources

• https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-mcp
• https://docs.snowflake.com/en/release-notes/2025/other/2025-11-04-cortex-agents-mcp
• https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/sql/create-mcp-server
• https://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/mcp

Machine-readable

• JSON
• Markdown
• Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)