generated: '2026-09-03'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/snowflake-cli/index and the machine-readable
  command index at https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/snowflake-cli/llms.txt
  (fetched 2026-09-03), plus PyPI metadata for snowflake-cli.
provider: Snowflake
providerId: snowflake
name: Snowflake CLI
binary: snow
official: true
open_source: true
repository: https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-cli
docs: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/snowflake-cli/index
command_reference: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/snowflake-cli/command-reference/overview
description: >-
  Snowflake CLI is Snowflake's open-source command-line tool for developer-centric workloads in
  addition to SQL operations. It is the successor to SnowSQL and is the only first-party surface
  that covers Native Apps, Snowpark, Snowpark Container Services, notebooks, Streamlit apps and
  dbt from one binary.

version: 3.26.0
published: '2026-08-31'
version_source: https://pypi.org/pypi/snowflake-cli/json

install:
  - method: pip
    command: pip install snowflake-cli
    registry: pypi
    package: snowflake-cli
    url: https://pypi.org/project/snowflake-cli/
  - method: pipx
    command: pipx install snowflake-cli
    note: >-
      Recommended where the CLI should be isolated from the project's Python environment.
  - method: installer
    url: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/snowflake-cli/installation/installation
    note: >-
      Snowflake also documents platform installers and Homebrew. The exact per-platform commands
      live on the installation page and are not restated here rather than guessed.

command_groups:
  - group: snow sql
    reference: sql-commands
    description: Execute SQL statements and scripts against a connection.
  - group: snow connection
    reference: connection-commands
    description: Manage named connections and credentials in the CLI config.
  - group: snow auth
    reference: auth-commands
    description: Authentication flows, including OAuth token handling.
  - group: snow app
    reference: native-apps-commands
    description: Snowflake Native App lifecycle — create, deploy, version, teardown.
  - group: snow snowpark
    reference: snowpark-commands
    description: Build and deploy Snowpark functions and procedures.
  - group: snow spcs
    reference: spcs-commands
    description: Snowpark Container Services — compute pools, image repositories, services, jobs.
  - group: snow streamlit
    reference: streamlit-commands
    description: Deploy and manage Streamlit-in-Snowflake apps.
  - group: snow notebook
    reference: notebook-commands
    description: Create, deploy and execute Snowflake Notebooks.
  - group: snow cortex
    reference: cortex-commands
    description: Cortex AI functions from the command line.
  - group: snow dbt
    reference: dbt-commands
    description: dbt projects on Snowflake.
  - group: snow dcm
    reference: dcm-commands
    description: Declarative Change Management projects.
  - group: snow git
    reference: git-commands
    description: Git repository integrations — fetch and execute code from a repo stage.
  - group: snow stage
    reference: stage-commands
    description: Stage file operations — put, get, list, remove.
  - group: snow object
    reference: object-commands
    description: Generic create/list/describe/drop across Snowflake object types.
  - group: snow logs
    reference: logs-commands
    description: Retrieve logs and events.
  - group: snow bootstrap
    reference: bootstrap-commands
    description: Scaffold a new project from a template.
  - group: snow helpers
    reference: helpers-commands
    description: Utility commands, including config import and migration.
  - group: snow custom-image
    reference: custom-image-commands
    description: Custom container images for SPCS and notebook runtimes.
  - group: snow snowflake-app-runtime
    reference: snowflake-app-runtime-commands
    description: Snowflake App Runtime commands.

command_groups_source: >-
  Group list derived from the command-reference pages enumerated in
  https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/snowflake-cli/llms.txt . Each `reference` value
  is the real page slug under
  https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/snowflake-cli/command-reference/ , so every row
  is verifiable. Group count: 19.

key_flows:
  - name: Run SQL non-interactively
    command: snow sql -q "SELECT CURRENT_VERSION()"
    note: The closest CLI equivalent of submitStatement in the SQL API.
  - name: Deploy a Streamlit app
    command: snow streamlit deploy
  - name: Deploy a Native App
    command: snow app run
  - name: Manage connections
    command: snow connection add / snow connection test

relationship_to_api:
  note: >-
    The CLI authenticates the same four ways the REST API does (key-pair, Snowflake OAuth,
    External OAuth, programmatic access token) and targets the same per-account host. It is a
    front end over the same control plane the openapi/ corpus describes, not a separate product.
  see: authentication/snowflake-authentication.yml

packaging: packages/snowflake-packages.yml