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AI Agent Governance in Enterprise AI: Snowflake's Bet

On July 28, 2026, Snowflake launched Cortex AI Gateway, a centralized control plane for enterprise AI agent governance built on the Natoma MCP platform acquired in May. It unifies authentication, permissions, access policy, and audit trails across agents, models, tools, and data, supporting more than 100 MCP servers. This desk analyzes the mechanism, the protocol-standardization moat, the underpriced prompt-injection risk, the need for circuit breakers in multi-agent pipelines, and the lock-in versus leverage trade-off for procurement and build-buy decisions.

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