August 4, 2026: Workspace sharing in Declarative Native Apps (Public Preview)

Workspace sharing is now available in public preview for Declarative Native Apps. Providers can share a whole directory of files and folders by declaring a workspace in the application package manifest. Consumers get a read-only workspace when they install the app, and can browse the folder structure and open the files.

Workspace sharing is also how providers share Snowflake Notebooks in Workspaces, the next generation notebook experience. Include .ipynb files in the shared directory, and consumers can run and interact with those notebooks in their own account without being able to modify them. Shared notebooks run with restricted caller’s rights, so they can only access the objects that the app shares.

Sharing individual notebooks with application_content.notebooks shares Legacy Notebooks and is deprecated. Share notebooks in a workspace instead. For the Legacy Notebooks removal timeline, see Disable Legacy Notebook creations.

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