Cortex Agent Lineage Walkthrough, Built on Two Agents

Author(s): Krishnan Srinivasan Originally published on Towards AI. Cortex Agent Lineage Walkthrough, Built on Two Agents Tracing a shared table across two Cortex Analyst agents, from source data to the agents that depend on it Every team running agents in production eventually hits the same question. Someone wants to rename a column, drop a table, or reshape a schema, and the room needs to know what depends on it downstream. Dashboards get checked. Pipelines get checked. Now, agents can be checked the same way, thanks to data lineage for Cortex Agents, which Snowflake added on September 2, 2026, tracing the path from a table through a semantic view to the agent that consumes it. Rather than standing up a separate tracking system just for agents, Cortex Agents now show up in the same lineage graph that already tracks tables, views, and streams, so there is nothing new to learn if a team is already using lineage elsewhere. A semantic view that a Cortex Analyst tool references appears upstream of the agent, and since that semantic view is itself downstream of the tables it was built on, you get one continuous path from a raw table all the way to the agent consuming it, all inside inf…

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