Snowflake previews a governed business ontology for agent context
Snowflake announced Business Ontology for defining approved business terms, entities, relationships and metrics, linking them to governed data and models, and serving only approved definitions to agents. The planned Horizon Context component will import and export Ossie and RDF representations.
Why it matters: Agents often disagree because teams encode business meaning separately in prompts, dashboards and data models. A governed semantic layer could make definitions inspectable and reusable, but only if ownership, approval, lineage and query-time enforcement are…