Cloudflare unveils Town Lake, Skipper AI agent

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Cloudflare unveils Town Lake, Skipper AI agent

Cloudflare unveils its internal unified data platform, Town Lake, alongside Skipper, an AI agent that enables natural language queries across disparate datasets while maintaining strict governance. Built on Apache Trino and Iceberg, it solves the "data sprawl" problem that hobbles most enterprise AI initiatives.

// ANALYSIS

Cloudflare demonstrates that effective AI agents rely more on robust infrastructure like unified access control and automated PII detection than on advanced prompting. Town Lake consolidates Postgres, ClickHouse, and Kafka into a single SQL interface with a 'default-closed' governance model. Skipper executes complex JavaScript workflows in sandboxed Workers, while the 'Skimmer' tool ensures data safety through automated scanning. Developers can further leverage this context via MCP server integration within their IDEs.

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town-lakeskippercloudflareinfrastructureagentmcpdata-toolsdata-lakehouseanalyticscloud

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2026-05-28

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