--- title: Getting Started with Cortex Code: A Data Engineer’s Guide description: Cortex Code is Snowflake's AI-driven coding agent that consolidates data engineering workflows into a single interface. This guide covers enabling it in a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/getting-started-with-cortex-code-a-data-engineer-s-guide-shsxthtrq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Getting Started with Cortex Code: A Data Engineer’s Guide | daily.dev og:description: Cortex Code is Snowflake's AI-driven coding agent that consolidates data engineering workflows into a single interface. This guide covers enabling it in a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/getting-started-with-cortex-code-a-data-engineer-s-guide-shsxthtrq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ShSXTHtrq.png og:image:alt: Getting Started with Cortex Code: A Data Engineer’s Guide 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. # Getting Started with Cortex Code: A Data Engineer’s Guide **[Snowflake Community](https://daily.dev/sources/snowflake_comm)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cortex Code is Snowflake's AI-driven coding agent that consolidates data engineering workflows into a single interface. This guide covers enabling it in a Snowflake account (cross-region inference setup, role grants), monitoring costs via CORTEX_AGENT_USAGE_HISTORY, and choosing between the Snowsight UI (for exploration, ad-hoc SQL, demos) versus the CLI (for dbt projects, local file editing, git workflows, and CI/CD). A hybrid approach is recommended: start in Snowsight for exploration, then move to the CLI when local file persistence or git integration is needed. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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