# CoCo Desktop (Cortex Code Desktop)

> CoCo Desktop (Cortex Code Desktop) is an officially published AI tool from Snowflake. Anomity scores its risk at 10 out of 100 (low).

- **Canonical URL:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/agent/cortex-code-desktop
- **Kind:** AI tool
- **Publisher:** Snowflake
- **Trust level:** official
- **Risk score:** 10/100 (low)
- **Website:** https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/cortex-code/cortex-code-desktop/index
- **Last updated:** 2026-11-01
- **JSON:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/api/entries/agent/cortex-code-desktop

## Description

Snowflake CoCo desktop agent app (agent and editor views, agentic browser and notebook); shares ~/.snowflake/cortex with the CoCo CLI

## Why it scored 10

The score starts at the catalog's neutral base of 50 and moves only through the signals below. The formula is published at https://catalog.anomity.ai/about — there is no model and no hidden heuristic.

| Signal | Contribution | Severity | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Published by the vendor | -40 | trust offset |  |

Clamped result: **10/100**, band **low**.

## Configuration surface

Files this tool reads on the host. Anything written here changes what the agent does next.

- `cortex-code-desktop-main-log` — CoCo Desktop main log (presence only, never read)
- `cortex-code-desktop-managed-settings` — Organization managed settings (permission allow/deny lists, bypass block)
    - win32: `C:\ProgramData\Cortex\managed-settings.json`
    - darwin: `/Library/Application Support/Cortex/managed-settings.json`

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Source: Anomity Security Database (https://catalog.anomity.ai/). Scoring methodology: https://catalog.anomity.ai/about. Machine-readable index: https://catalog.anomity.ai/llms.txt · https://catalog.anomity.ai/openapi.json