AI Hackathon · Platform Engineering
Sky Lattice
The missing layer between AI copilots and Snowflake — so platform setup is repeatable, auditable, and still human-fast.
Intent
Decisions
Blueprint
Terraform
AI Front Door
The problem
Snowflake is a blank slate.
AI chats are amnesiac.
Today
- Every customer rebuild starts near zero
- RBAC, envs, zones = tribal knowledge
- LLM + Terraform: works once, forgets why
- Follow-ups reopen a new chat with TF state, not judgment
Cost
- Weeks of senior time per engagement
- Inconsistent security posture
- Hard handoffs, harder audits
- AI accelerates typing — not institutional memory
Insight
“Don’t replace the LLM. Put a lattice under it.”
Codify the recipe. Capture the why. Let AI drive the forms — never invent production IAM from scratch each session.
What we built
Sky Lattice
An internal toolkit that turns “how we set up Snowflake” into a versioned product: blueprint + customer intent + durable decisions + deterministic plan — with Cursor/Claude as the optional front door.
Natural language
→
Skill + intent/decisions
→
platformctl plan
→
Terraform / Snowflake
Live story
Greenfield in minutes.
Brownfield without amnesia.
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Init Acme
platformctl init + wizard → domains, envs, restricted finance
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Plan the lattice
Deterministic object graph: DBs, zones, roles, warehouses
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Record the why
Decision file: temporary exception, expiry date, rationale
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Come back later
New chat opens the customer repo — not a blank brain
Why this wins
Not another chatbot.
Not another Terraform module dump.
AI where it belongs
Skills interview and edit intent. Policy blocks unsafe shortcuts. Apply stays deterministic.
Memory that survives sessions
TF state = what. Decision store = why. Intent = what we mean to run.
Repeatable with deviation
Same blueprint, different customer params and approved overrides — not copy-paste HCL.
Low friction for Snowflake people
Five verbs. Snowflake vocabulary. Familiar plan output. Optional agent IDE.
Who cares
Anyone shipping Snowflake platforms more than once.
Primary
- Data platform consultancies
- Internal platform / enablement teams
- Multi-account Snowflake orgs
Pain they already feel
- “We reinvent RBAC every client”
- “AI helped, then we lost the thread”
- “Brownfield is a black box”
Hackathon status
Working scaffold. Honest v0.
v0.1
Blueprint · platformctl · wizard · decisions · drift inventory · Cursor skill · demo customers
Next vertical slice
- Live Terraform → Snowflake apply
- Overrides that change the plan graph
- Live account discover
The ask
Help us harden the lattice.
We’re building the control plane for AI-assisted data platform delivery. Join as design partners, Snowflake SMEs, or judges who’ve felt this pain.
Open source trajectory
Consulting IP today
Product tomorrow
Sky Lattice — structure under the copilots.