Snowflake announces intent to acquire Natoma, a model context protocol gateway that enforces identity and policy controls for AI agents accessing enterprise applications.

Snowflake announced its intent to acquire Natoma, a company whose platform provides a centralized MCP gateway (a middleman for AI agent tool use) that enforces identity, policy and audit at the tool-call level.

Natoma's capabilities will integrate into Snowflake's control plane, enabling Cortex Agents to connect to enterprise applications with governance controls. After integration, customers will manage granular permissions over who can use which tools and actions across their organization from a single interface.

Snowflake has already deployed Natoma internally and reports immediate results: the platform summarizes unread emails, searches across Slack and Google Drive, and surfaces information without requiring context-switching across multiple tools, all within a governed environment.