# Snowflake Documentation — Snowflake Cortex (AI & ML)

> LLM functions, vector search, document AI, Cortex Analyst, and AI-powered features.

- [Access control and authentication](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-setup.md)
- [Adding a custom MCP server](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-ai-gateway/tools/admin-custom-apps.md)
- [Adding an MCP server to your AI client](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-ai-gateway/tools/user-configure-client.md)
- [Agent skills](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-skills.md)
- [Agent toolsets](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-toolsets.md)
- [AI cost management and governance](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/governance-and-availability/ai-cost-management-and-governance.md)
- [AI Observability Tutorial](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/ai-observability/tutorial.md)
- [AI Observability with Snowflake Cortex](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/ai-observability.md)
- [AI_COMPLETE with documents](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/ai-complete-document-intelligence.md)
- [Analytical search](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-analytical-search.md)
- [Authenticate Cortex Agent SDK requests](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agent-sdk/authentication.md)
- [Automations in Snowflake CoWork](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/snowflake-cowork/automations.md)
- [Available MCP servers](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-ai-gateway/tools/available-servers.md)
- [Batch Cortex Search](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-search/batch-cortex-search.md)
- [Build agents](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/snowflake-cowork/build-agents.md)
- [Caching for Cortex AI Functions](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/aisql-caching.md)
- [Chart and Thread artifacts in Snowflake CoWork](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/snowflake-cowork/artifacts.md)
- [CKE document access history](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-knowledge-extensions/cke-access-history.md)
- [Coding Agent](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-coding-agent.md)
- [Configuring tool availability for an MCP server](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-ai-gateway/tools/admin-tool-policies.md)
- [Conversations with the Cortex Agent SDK](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agent-sdk/conversations.md)
- [Copy `arctic-extract` models between databases, schemas, and accounts](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/copy-arctic-extract-models.md)
- [Cortex Agent code execution tool](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-code-execution-tool.md)
- [Cortex Agent evaluations](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-evaluations.md)
- [Cortex Agent SDK](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agent-sdk/cortex-agent-sdk.md)
- [Cortex Agent SDK features](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agent-sdk/sdk-features.md)
- [Cortex Agent SDK quickstart](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agent-sdk/quickstart.md)
- [Cortex Agent SDK reference](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agent-sdk/sdk-reference.md)
- [Cortex Agent versioning](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-versioning.md)
- [Cortex Agents](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents.md)
- [Cortex Agents Compact API](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-compact.md)
- [Cortex Agents for Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-teams-integration.md)
- [Cortex Agents REST API](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-rest-api.md)
- [Cortex Agents Run API](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-run.md)
- [Cortex Agents shared resource budgets](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-shared-budgets.md)
- [Cortex AI Function Evaluation and Optimization](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/ai-function-studio.md)
- [Cortex AI Functions: Audio](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/ai-audio.md)
- [Cortex AI Functions: Documents](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/ai-documents.md)
- [Cortex AI Functions: Image extraction with AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/image-extraction.md)
- [Cortex AI Functions: Images](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/ai-images.md)
- [Cortex AI Functions: Multimodal](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/ai-multimodal.md)
- [Cortex AI Gateway](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-ai-gateway.md)
- [Cortex AI Guardrails](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-ai-guardrails.md)
- [Cortex Analyst](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-analyst.md)
- [Cortex Analyst administrator monitoring](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-analyst/admin-observability.md)
- [Cortex Analyst evaluations](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-analyst-evaluations.md)
- [Cortex Analyst REST API](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-analyst/rest-api.md)
- [Cortex Code with the Cortex Agent SDK](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agent-sdk/cortex-code.md)
- [Cortex Knowledge Extensions](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-knowledge-extensions/cke-overview.md)
- [Cortex Playground](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-playground.md)
- [Cortex REST API](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-rest-api.md)
- [Cortex Search](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-search/cortex-search-overview.md)
- [Cortex Search tutorials](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-search/overview-tutorials.md)
- [Cortex Training](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-training.md)
- [Cortex Training API reference](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-training/api-reference.md)
- [Cortex Training models](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-training/models.md)
- [Cost considerations for Cortex AI Functions](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/aisql-cost.md)
- [Cost management for Cortex AI Gateway](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-ai-gateway/cost-management.md)
- [Create and manage agents](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-manage.md)
- [Cross-region inference](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cross-region-inference.md)
- [Customize charts in Snowflake CoWork](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/snowflake-cowork/chart-customization.md)
- [Customizing Cortex Search scoring](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-search/cortex-search-customize-scoring.md)
- [Distributing access to MCP servers](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-ai-gateway/tools/admin-personal-connections.md)
- [Document generation in Snowflake CoWork](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/snowflake-cowork/document-generation.md)
- [Document Processing Playground](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/document-processing-playground.md)
- [Evaluate applications with TruLens](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/ai-observability/evaluate-applications-trulens.md)
- [Extracting information from documents with AI_EXTRACT](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/document-extraction.md)
- [Feedback REST API](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-feedback-rest-api.md)
- [Fine-tuning (Snowflake Cortex)](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-finetuning.md)
- [Fine-tuning `arctic-extract` models](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/arctic-extract-finetuning.md)
- [Get started with Cortex Agents](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-get-started.md)
- [Get started with Cortex Training](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-training/get-started.md)
- [Getting started with Snowflake CoWork](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/snowflake-cowork/getting-started.md)
- [Governance and availability](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/governance-and-availability.md)
- [Improve literal search to enhance Cortex Analyst responses](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-analyst/cortex-analyst-search-integration.md)
- [Inaccessible tool handling](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-inaccessible-tool-handling.md)
- [Inference with Cortex AI Gateway](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-ai-gateway/inference.md)
- [Integrate tools and data](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/snowflake-cowork/integrate-tools.md)
- [Manage Cortex Training jobs](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-training/job-management.md)
- [Managing Cortex AI Function costs with Account Usage](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/ai-func-cost-management.md)
- [MCP Connectors](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-mcp-connectors.md)
- [Migrate legacy SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX functions to AI Functions](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/aisql-migrate-legacy-functions.md)
- [Model availability for Snowflake Cortex AI](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/model-availability.md)
- [Models and regional availability for Cortex AI Functions](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/aisql-regional-availability.md)
- [Monitor Cortex Agent requests](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-monitor.md)
- [Monitor Cortex Search requests](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-search/cortex-search-monitor.md)
- [Multi-tenancy for Cortex Agents](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-multi-tenancy.md)
- [Observability for Cortex AI Gateway](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-ai-gateway/observability.md)
- [Onboarding questions in Cortex Analyst](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-analyst/suggested-questions-feature.md)
- [Opt out of Snowflake AI features](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/opting-out.md)
- [Optimize an existing semantic view or model with verified queries](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-analyst/analyst-optimization.md)
- [Overview of Snowflake CoWork](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/snowflake-cowork.md)
- [Parsing documents with AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/parse-document.md)
- [Privileges and model access for Cortex AI Functions](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/aisql-privileges-and-access.md)
- [Provisioned Throughput](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/provisioned-throughput.md)
- [Query a Cortex Search Service](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-search/query-cortex-search-service.md)
- [Reference](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/snowflake-cowork/reference.md)
- [Replicate a Cortex Search Service](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-search/cortex-search-replication.md)
- [Resource budgets for Cortex Agents](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-resource-budgets.md)
- [Resource budgets for Cortex Search](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-search/cortex-search-resource-budgets.md)
- [Resource budgets for Snowflake CoWork](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/snowflake-cowork/cowork-resource-budgets.md)
- [Retrieve Cortex Search](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-search/cortex-search-retrieve.md)
- [Routing Mode for Cortex Analyst](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-analyst/cortex-analyst-routing-mode.md)
- [Secure agents](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-secure.md)
- [Setting up MCP servers needing additional configuration](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-ai-gateway/tools/admin-server-oauth-setup.md)
- [Share Cortex agents](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-sharing.md)
- [Snowflake AI Observability Reference](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/ai-observability/reference.md)
- [Snowflake AI pricing](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/pricing.md)
- [Snowflake Cortex AI Functions (including LLM functions)](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/aisql.md)
- [Snowflake CoWork shared resource budgets](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/snowflake-cowork/cowork-shared-budgets.md)
- [Snowflake-managed MCP server](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-mcp.md)
- [Threads API](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-threads-rest-api.md)
- [Tools](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-ai-gateway/tools.md)
- [Trace analytics for Cortex AI Gateway](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-ai-gateway/observability/trace-analytics.md)
- [Trace and monitor applications with TruLens](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/ai-observability/trace-applications-trulens.md)
- [Troubleshooting](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/snowflake-cowork/troubleshooting.md)
- [Tutorial 1: Build a simple search application with Cortex Search](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-search/tutorials/cortex-search-tutorial-1-search.md)
- [Tutorial 1: Providers set up and test a CKE](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-knowledge-extensions/tutorials/setup-test-cke-tutorial.md)
- [Tutorial 2: Build a simple chat application with Cortex Search](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-search/tutorials/cortex-search-tutorial-2-chat.md)
- [Tutorial 2: Consumer interfaces with a CKE in a Streamlit chatbot](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-knowledge-extensions/tutorials/query-cortex-search-service-tutorial.md)
- [Tutorial 3: Add a CKE to Snowflake CoWork](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-knowledge-extensions/tutorials/add-cke-to-snowflake-cowork-tutorial.md)
- [Tutorial 3: Build a PDF chatbot with Cortex Search](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-search/tutorials/cortex-search-tutorial-3-chat-advanced.md)
- [Tutorial: Answer questions about time-series revenue data with Cortex Analyst](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-analyst/tutorials/tutorial-1.md)
- [Tutorials](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-knowledge-extensions/overview-tutorials.md)
- [Understanding cost for Cortex Search Services](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-search/cortex-search-costs.md)
- [Use case examples](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/snowflake-cowork/templates.md)
- [Use Cortex Search with Cortex Agents](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-search/cortex-search-agents.md)
- [Use the asynchronous Python client](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agent-sdk/async-python.md)
- [Use the direct Cortex Agent API](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agent-sdk/running-agents.md)
- [Use threads with the Cortex Agent REST API](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-threads.md)
- [User access and settings for agents](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/snowflake-cowork/deploy-agents.md)
- [User skills in Snowflake CoWork](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/snowflake-cowork/user-skills.md)
- [Using Cortex AI Functions with Python and Snow CLI](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/aisql-programmatic-use.md)
- [Vector embedding REST API](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-rest-api/embed-api.md)
- [Vector Embeddings](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/vector-embeddings.md)
- [Viewing agent activity](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-ai-gateway/tools/admin-activity.md)
- [Visualization policies for chart customization in Snowflake CoWork](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-viz-policies.md)
- [Working with temporary agents](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents-temporary.md)