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title: "Expanding Genie Agents: Deep analysis, file reasoning, and more"
description: "Genie Agents updates expand expert-curated business agents beyond quick factual lookups to deeper analysis across structured and unstructured data. Agent mode can create and refine research plans, issue iterative queries, and return reports with findings, visualizations, and citations; Agent mode APIs extend this workflow to custom applications, chatbots, scheduled reports, and internal tools through streaming Server-Sent Events. Agents can analyze PDFs, documents, slide decks, and images in Unity Catalog volumes alongside governed tables, with permissions and content search indexing applied to retrieval. Genie Code helps authors create baseline agents, diagnose conversation or benchmark failures, and identify knowledge gaps from user feedback, while authors retain review control over proposed changes. Shared chats keep follow-up messages and edited visualizations visible to authorized users, supporting collaboration and agent-quality review."
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# Expanding Genie Agents: Deep analysis, file reasoning, and more

[Databricks](https://yomu.fyi/company/databricks) · Hanlin Sun, Sydney Sundell · Sep 2, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Genie Agents updates expand expert-curated business agents beyond quick factual lookups to deeper analysis across structured and unstructured data. Agent mode can create and refine research plans, issue iterative queries, and return reports with findings, visualizations, and citations; Agent mode APIs extend this workflow to custom applications, chatbots, scheduled reports, and internal tools through streaming Server-Sent Events. Agents can analyze PDFs, documents, slide decks, and images in Unity Catalog volumes alongside governed tables, with permissions and content search indexing applied to retrieval. Genie Code helps authors create baseline agents, diagnose conversation or benchmark failures, and identify knowledge gaps from user feedback, while authors retain review control over proposed changes. Shared chats keep follow-up messages and edited visualizations visible to authorized users, supporting collaboration and agent-quality review.

## Context

Genie Agents needed to answer a broader range of business questions, including nuanced investigations that require multi-step reasoning and questions combining governed tables with context from unstructured files. The updates also address the need to make agents easier to curate, monitor, improve, and share across teams.

## Approach / What changed

The update makes Agent mode available for all Genie Agents and exposes it through APIs with Server-Sent Events, conversation retrieval, follow-ups, visualizations, and data tables. Agents can analyze files in Unity Catalog volumes with permissions and content search indexing. Genie Code supports agent creation, failure diagnosis, feedback analysis, and suggested context improvements, while shared chats support collaboration and review.

## Takeaways

- Agent mode creates and refines research plans, explores data through iterative queries, and returns findings with visualizations and citations; its APIs support custom applications, chatbots, scheduled reports, and internal tools.
- Genie Agents can combine governed tables with PDFs, documents, slide decks, and images stored in Unity Catalog volumes. Access permissions apply, and content search indexing improves retrieval across larger file collections.
- Genie Code can generate a baseline agent, diagnose conversation or benchmark failures, and summarize feedback trends to suggest context improvements. Authors review suggestions before saving changes.

**Tags:** [AI Agents](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai-agents), [Genie](https://yomu.fyi/topic/genie), [Unity Catalog](https://yomu.fyi/topic/unity-catalog)

- Source: [Databricks](https://www.databricks.com/blog/expanding-genie-agents-deep-analysis-file-reasoning-and-more)
- Source URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/expanding-genie-agents-deep-analysis-file-reasoning-and-more
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-02T20:00:53.175Z

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