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Course Description
Use Snowflake CoCo Desktop, Snowflake's AI coding agent, to build a real dbt data engineering project the right way. You'll set up CoCo Desktop with a Snowflake trial account and give the agent project context with an AGENTS.md file. Then you'll encode your team's conventions in a custom Skill, package it with a production safety hook and a dbt review subagent into a Plugin, publish that Plugin to the Snowflake Plugins Catalog, and run the same subagent automatically on every pull request with GitHub Actions.
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Start Course for FreeWhat you'll learn
- Differentiate Snowflake CoCo from generic AI coding agents, and explain why CoCo Desktop suits local data engineering work connected to Snowflake.
- Determine how an AGENTS.md file gives CoCo project context and brings an existing dbt project in line with team conventions.
- Define a custom Skill with SKILL.md frontmatter, workflows, stopping points, and guardrails that encodes your team's dbt standards.
- Recognize how Plugins bundle Skills, hooks, subagents, and MCP servers into one versioned unit, and how to share them through the Plugins Catalog.
- Assess how a CoCo subagent running in GitHub Actions reviews pull requests headlessly while behaving exactly as it does on your desktop.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course
Curriculum
Course outline
1
CoCo Desktop and Agent Skills
Learn what Snowflake CoCo is, how it differs from generic coding agents, and why CoCo Desktop suits local development. Set up your lab environment, give CoCo project context with AGENTS.md, and create a custom Skill that encodes your team's dbt conventions.
- Course Introduction50 XP
- Introduction to Snowflake CoCo50 XP
- Setting Up Your Lab Environment50 XP
- Create Your AGENTS.md50 XP
- CoCo and AGENTS.md review - Question 150 XP
- CoCo and AGENTS.md review - Question 250 XP
- CoCo and AGENTS.md review - Question 350 XP
- CoCo and AGENTS.md review - Question 450 XP
- Agent Skills50 XP
- Create a Custom Skill50 XP
- Agent Skills review - Question 150 XP
- Agent Skills review - Question 250 XP
- Agent Skills review - Question 350 XP
- Agent Skills review - Question 450 XP
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Plugins and CoCo for DevOps
In this final chapter, you'll learn how to bundle Skills, hooks, and subagents into a versioned Plugin and publish it to the Plugins Catalog. Then you'll bring the same dbt review subagent into CI/CD so it reviews every pull request automatically.
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Accelerating Your Data Work with Snowflake CoCo Desktop
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