Snowflake on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026, detailed Horizon Context , a governed context layer inside Horizon Catalog, first introduced at Snowflake Summit, that collects metadata, enriches it with business meaning and makes it useful to people, BI tools and AI agents.

The post, by principal product manager Shinji Kim and senior product marketing manager Danielle Kucera, said metadata connectors for 18 sources, targeted permissions for stewards to curate descriptions and automatic propagation of descriptions to supported downstream columns are now in public preview. The company also pointed to a redesigned Horizon Catalog Explorer for discovery and reuse.

Snowflake’s own example is a business leader asking an agent why customer retention declined.…