OSS Snowflake MCP Server

io.github.Snowflake-Labs/mcp

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
2 secrets
★ 303 GitHub stars
Updated 2025-10-28
Health score 65
Code reviewed

About OSS Snowflake MCP Server

OSS Snowflake MCP Server is an MCP server published by the GitHub account Snowflake-Labs. MCP Server for Snowflake from Snowflake Labs

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the PyPI package snowflake-labs-mcp at version 1.3.5.

It asks for 2 secrets: SNOWFLAKE_PASSWORD and SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

Version 1.3.5 was published on 28 October 2025, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 7 pass, 0 warn, 0 fail, 2 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`SNOWFLAKE_ACCOUNT`	No	No	Account identifier (e.g. xy12345.us-east-1)
`SNOWFLAKE_HOST`	No	No	Snowflake host URL
`SNOWFLAKE_USER`	No	No	Username for authentication
`SNOWFLAKE_PASSWORD`	No	Yes	Password or programmatic access token
`SNOWFLAKE_ROLE`	No	No	Role to use for connection
`SNOWFLAKE_WAREHOUSE`	No	No	Warehouse to use for queries
`SNOWFLAKE_PASSCODE`	No	No	MFA passcode for authentication
`SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY`	No	Yes	Private key for key pair authentication
`SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE`	No	No	Path to private key file
`SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE_PWD`	No	No	Password for encrypted private key
`SNOWFLAKE_MCP_HOST`	No	No	Host address to bind the server to (default: 0.0.0.0)
`SNOWFLAKE_MCP_PORT`	No	No	Port number for the server to listen on (default: 9000)
`SNOWFLAKE_MCP_ENDPOINT`	No	No	Endpoint path for the MCP server (default: /mcp)

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/mcp
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 2 secrets: SNOWFLAKE_PASSWORD, SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account Snowflake-Labs
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	snowflake-labs-mcp 1.3.5 has no setup.py; nothing runs at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 28 files in snowflake-labs-mcp 1.3.5: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 28 files, including comments and the README

Code review: Pass, with notes

We read all 3,415 lines in 15 files of snowflake-labs-mcp 1.3.5 on 2026-10-31, without running it.

Official Snowflake server that lets an AI query and manage your Snowflake account, including Cortex Search/Analyst/Agent. Everything it sends goes only to your own Snowflake account (with a usage tag Snowflake uses to count MCP traffic). It can run SQL and create or drop objects, so set the sql_statement_permissions list carefully (it refuses everything by default) and do not expose the HTTP mode on a network, as it has no login.

What we found

Note run_snowflake_query runs any SQL the AI writes. A middleware allow/deny list (sql_statement_permissions in the YAML) gates it, and with no permissions configured every statement is refused (default-deny). Users who set 'all: true' give the AI full DML/DDL. query_manager/tools.py:53-64
Note create_object / drop_object / create_or_alter_object can create, replace and drop databases, warehouses, users, roles etc. Gated only by 'create'/'drop' in sql_statement_permissions; no per-call confirmation. mode='replace' does CREATE OR REPLACE. object_manager/tools.py:211-247
Note query_semantic_view appends where_clause and order_by as raw SQL text and is NOT checked by the permission middleware (server_utils.py only checks run_snowflake_query and create*/drop*). Snowflake runs one statement per execute, so this cannot chain a DROP, but it lets the AI run arbitrary read subqueries even when SELECT is not allowed. semantic_manager/tools.py:218-222
Note cortex_analyst executes the SQL that Cortex Analyst generates without passing it through the SQL permission check. utils.py:249-254
Note Statement type is taken from sqlglot.parse_one (first statement only); multi-statement bypass is blocked in practice by the connector's single-statement default, not by this check. query_manager/tools.py:67-82
Note With --transport http/sse/streamable-http the server binds 0.0.0.0:9000 by default with no authentication on the MCP endpoint, so anyone on the network can drive the user's Snowflake session. stdio (the default) is not affected. server.py:484-489
Info starts_with is concatenated into a quoted literal after stripping single quotes only (SHOW statements cannot bind). Single-statement execution limits the impact to a syntax error. object_manager/tools.py:137-140
Info database/schema/service names from tool input are put into REST API paths unencoded; the host is fixed to the user's Snowflake account, so this is not SSRF. cortex_services/tools.py:71-74
Info validate_semantic_view_tool is dead code (never called). semantic_manager/tools.py:268-288
Info No pyproject.toml/METADATA in the reviewed copy; dependencies listed are those imported by the code. No install hooks, obfuscation, encoded payloads, dynamic imports, disabled TLS or hard-coded secrets found. package
Info lines_read (3415) is the real line count of every file (Read tool / splitlines). The manifest's 3430 counts one extra empty 'line' after the trailing newline of 15 files; no file or line was skipped. manifest.tsv

Talks to	<account>.snowflakecomputing.com (or SNOWFLAKE_HOST / --host): Snowflake credentials via the official connector; SQL statements; Cortex Search/Analyst/Agent REST calls with the user's query text; a QUERY_TAG {origin:sf_sit,name:mcp_server,version} on every session so Snowflake can count MCP usage (at startup (connect + a zero-compute 'SELECT 'MCP Server Snowflake'' query) and on every tool call)
Keys and settings	`SNOWFLAKE_ACCOUNT / SNOWFLAKE_HOST / SNOWFLAKE_USER`: Snowflake (connection) `SNOWFLAKE_PASSWORD / SNOWFLAKE_PAT (deprecated)`: Snowflake login only `SNOWFLAKE_ROLE / SNOWFLAKE_WAREHOUSE / SNOWFLAKE_PASSCODE`: Snowflake login only `SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY / SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE / SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE_PWD`: used locally by the connector for key-pair auth `SNOWFLAKE_DEFAULT_CONNECTION_NAME`: local (picks a connection from the Snowflake config file) `SERVICE_CONFIG_FILE`: local (path of the YAML tool config) `SNOWFLAKE_MCP_HOST / SNOWFLAKE_MCP_PORT / SNOWFLAKE_MCP_ENDPOINT`: local (HTTP bind settings) `/snowflake/session/token (file, SPCS containers only)`: Snowflake as an OAuth bearer token
Files on your machine	Reads the YAML service config file (path from --service-config-file / SERVICE_CONFIG_FILE) and exposes it as an MCP resource; reads /snowflake/session/token when running inside Snowpark Container Services; the connector may read a private-key file or Snowflake connections file named in config. No other file reads or writes. No path from tool input touches the file system.
Runs programs	None. No subprocess, os.system, eval or exec. Only SQL sent to Snowflake.
Telemetry	No third-party telemetry. Every Snowflake session is tagged QUERY_TAG {"origin":"sf_sit","name":"mcp_server","version":{major:1,minor:3}} (server.py:49-53, 'Used to quantify Snowflake usage'); this goes only to the user's own Snowflake account and cannot be switched off without editing code.
Tools	create_object, drop_object, create_or_alter_object, describe_object, list_objects, run_snowflake_query, list_semantic_views, describe_semantic_view, show_semantic_dimensions, show_semantic_metrics, get_semantic_view_ddl, write_semantic_view_query_tool, query_semantic_view, cortex_agent, cortex_search, cortex_analyst
Tool descriptions	clean (descriptions are plain and on-task; cortex tool descriptions embed the user's own YAML service list)

This covers the package's own code only, not the 8 packages it depends on (fastmcp, snowflake-connector-python, snowflake-core (snowflake.core), pyyaml, requests, pydantic, typing_extensions, sqlglot). A new version drops this review until we read it again.

Popularity & health: 65 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity27 / 40

303 GitHub stars, 10,628 downloads last week, 0 Hacker News posts (0 points). Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity8 / 25

Last push 2026-05-15, last release 2026-05-15, 0 commits in 90 days.

Issue health10 / 15

47 closed of 69 issues.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

109 forks, 98 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

No Hacker News threads link to its source code.

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.Snowflake-Labs/mcp`
Publisher	GitHub account Snowflake-Labs
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account Snowflake-Labs. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	pypi `snowflake-labs-mcp` 1.3.5 (stdio)
Version	1.3.5
Published	2025-10-28
Last updated	2025-10-28
Source repository	https://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/mcp
Website	None linked
Category	Databases & data (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · Python package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "snowflake-labs-mcp==1.3.5"
      ]
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

We did not run this server, so we don't know what it does when it runs. We did read every line of its own code for version 1.3.5 (see the code review), but not the packages it depends on. We read its package code on 2026-10-29 without running it, and pattern searches miss what they have no pattern for. Tool descriptions built at run time were not seen. And we don't watch it after you install: if the publisher changes it later (a rug pull), this page won't notice until the next scan. Treat a pass as "nothing found", not as "safe".

For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-github-snowflake-labs-mcp.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.