What's new in Unity Catalog, at a glance: *Govern what AI agents do, not just what they access: Unity AI Gateway brings models, agents, tools, and MCPs under one runtime governance layer. *Give agents the business context they need: Glossary and Domains create a shared, governed source of meaning for people and agents. *Govern your entire estate across clouds and regions: one catalog, one set of policies, and consistent governance wherever your workloads run.

The agentic era is here. Hundreds of thousands of agents are now acting on enterprise data, querying it, reasoning over it, and making decisions with it in real time. That shift has changed what we ask of the catalog. The catalog has moved from a system of record to a runtime decision-maker for AI.

Making those decisions takes three things: control, so every action, human or agent, stays governed; context, so agents understand the business and stop hallucinating; and choice, so you're never locked into a single cloud, model, or format. Together, these are what governance has to mean in the agentic era.

Five years ago, Databricks pioneered data and AI governance by releasing Unity Catalog, the industry's only unified governance solution for data and AI across clouds, data formats, and data platforms. More than 14,000 organizations now govern their data and AI on Unity Catalog.

Today, we're advancing Unity Catalog to deliver on all three: control, context, and choice. Here's what's new.

For years, governing an asset meant governing access: who can query this table, who can call this model. But agents don't just access assets; they act through them, calling models, invoking tools, and connecting to MCP servers. To meet this shift, we are introducing a suite of capabilities built to govern the entire lifecycle of an agent's behavior.