--- title: How to Get the Most out of Snowflake CoCo: Prompting... description: A guide on using Snowflake's AI assistant CoCo effectively, covering prompt structure (goal, constraints, context, verification), the value of specificity,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-snowflake-coco-prompting-tips-best-practices-ukejvg527 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to Get the Most out of Snowflake CoCo: Prompting Tips & Best Practices | daily.dev og:description: A guide on using Snowflake's AI assistant CoCo effectively, covering prompt structure (goal, constraints, context, verification), the value of specificity,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-snowflake-coco-prompting-tips-best-practices-ukejvg527 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UkEjvg527.png og:image:alt: How to Get the Most out of Snowflake CoCo: Prompting Tips & Best Practices 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. # How to Get the Most out of Snowflake CoCo: Prompting Tips & Best Practices **[Snowflake Community](https://daily.dev/sources/snowflake_comm)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A guide on using Snowflake's AI assistant CoCo effectively, covering prompt structure (goal, constraints, context, verification), the value of specificity, leading with outcomes rather than micromanaging implementation, letting CoCo leverage live account data (query history, lineage, cost data), using packaged skills like /cost-intelligence and /sql-author, and always verifying AI-generated output before trusting it against production data. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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