--- title: Building a Scalable Routing Solution for Cortex Agents... description: A step-by-step guide to building a routing agent in Snowflake that automatically dispatches user questions to the most appropriate Cortex Agent. The solution... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-scalable-routing-solution-for-cortex-agents-in-snowflake-hilpp8jsb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Building a Scalable Routing Solution for Cortex Agents in Snowflake | daily.dev og:description: A step-by-step guide to building a routing agent in Snowflake that automatically dispatches user questions to the most appropriate Cortex Agent. The solution... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-scalable-routing-solution-for-cortex-agents-in-snowflake-hilpp8jsb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/HILPP8jsB.png og:image:alt: Building a Scalable Routing Solution for Cortex Agents in Snowflake og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building a Scalable Routing Solution for Cortex Agents in Snowflake **[Snowflake Community](https://daily.dev/sources/snowflake_comm)** · 13 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A step-by-step guide to building a routing agent in Snowflake that automatically dispatches user questions to the most appropriate Cortex Agent. The solution uses an auto-syncing agent registry, Cortex Search for semantic matching, native RBAC filtering, and multi-turn conversation thread tracking — all in pure SQL with no Python dependencies. Key components include a sync procedure that discovers agents hourly, a Cortex Search service for natural language matching, an RBAC filter using SHOW GRANTS, thread mappings for conversation continuity, and a routing agent orchestrated with Claude that ties everything together. The complete code is available in a companion GitHub repository. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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