Snowflake Inc. (NYSE: SNOW) announced new capabilities for its CoCo coding agent and introduced Snowflake Datastream, a streaming service for Apache Kafka, at Snowflake Summit 26.

CoCo, formerly known as Cortex Code, is now available as a native desktop app and includes extensions for Microsoft Excel, VS Code, and Claude Code. The AI coding agent helps users automate workflows and develop applications through simple prompts. New features include autonomous task execution, cloud agents that run in the background, and a skill catalog for sharing workflows across teams.

The company also launched Snowflake Datastream, a managed streaming service that allows organizations to stream data directly into Snowflake from existing Apache Kafka applications without separate brokers or connectors. The service is built natively on Snowflake and maintains Kafka compatibility.

Three companies are currently using CoCo in production. Fanatics reports that engineers can resolve pipeline issues in hours instead of days. Thomson Reuters says teams are delivering insights in days rather than weeks. WHOOP is deploying CoCo across its entire organization beyond just data teams.

"CoCo makes work for experienced developers dramatically faster and easier, and is opening the door for non-traditional builders, like analysts and data-savvy business users, to start creating pipelines, automations, and AI apps on their own," said Christian Kleinerman, executive vice president of product at Snowflake.

The CoCo desktop app is generally available soon, while mobile app and Slack integration features are in public preview soon. The Excel extension is in private preview soon. Datastream addresses what the company describes as a $128 billion market opportunity in streaming data and real-time AI.