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title: "Introducing Genie Agent Mode"
description: "Databricks introduces Agent mode in Genie spaces, an agentic process that plans, explores, and reasons over data to answer business questions. For each question, Genie can confirm an issue, test potential contributors through multiple queries, reflect on results, and decide what to investigate next, using Unity Catalog metadata and author-defined semantics from the Genie space. It produces a findings report with quantified results, identified contributors, visualizations, and references to the underlying SQL, and may include actionable recommendations. The agent scales its reasoning to task complexity, using validation for straightforward questions and more planning for multi-step investigations; in AI/BI Dashboards, Genie uses Agent mode by default. Workspace admins enable the feature in Workspace Previews, after which users turn on the Agent toggle in Genie spaces; API support and unstructured document analysis are planned additions."
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# Introducing Genie Agent Mode

[Databricks](https://yomu.fyi/company/databricks) · Hanlin Sun · Apr 17, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Databricks introduces Agent mode in Genie spaces, an agentic process that plans, explores, and reasons over data to answer business questions. For each question, Genie can confirm an issue, test potential contributors through multiple queries, reflect on results, and decide what to investigate next, using Unity Catalog metadata and author-defined semantics from the Genie space. It produces a findings report with quantified results, identified contributors, visualizations, and references to the underlying SQL, and may include actionable recommendations. The agent scales its reasoning to task complexity, using validation for straightforward questions and more planning for multi-step investigations; in AI/BI Dashboards, Genie uses Agent mode by default. Workspace admins enable the feature in Workspace Previews, after which users turn on the Agent toggle in Genie spaces; API support and unstructured document analysis are planned additions.

## Context

The feature addresses the need for more actionable data analysis and supports questions ranging from simple analytics to complex, multi-step business investigations.

## Approach / What changed

Agent mode iteratively plans, generates and tests hypotheses with multiple queries, reflects on each result, and selects what to explore next. It uses Genie space context, including Unity Catalog metadata and author-defined semantics, then produces a report with findings, visualizations, SQL references, and, where applicable, recommendations.

## Takeaways

- Agent mode evaluates possible contributors by executing multiple queries and continuously reflecting on results to guide subsequent investigation.
- Genie reports quantify changes, identify primary contributors, and include visualizations plus references to the underlying SQL for verification.
- Workspace admins enable Agent mode through Workspace Previews; users then activate the Agent toggle in Genie spaces, while Genie uses it by default from AI/BI Dashboards.

**Tags:** [AI Agents](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai-agents), [Data Analytics](https://yomu.fyi/topic/data-analytics), [Unity Catalog](https://yomu.fyi/topic/unity-catalog)

- Source: [Databricks](https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-genie-agent-mode)
- Source URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-genie-agent-mode
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-08-31T03:42:37.652Z

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