Teradata expands Tera AI assistant with tools for governed agents

Teradata is expanding its Tera AI assistant with a context engine, the Tera Harness execution system and reusable Agent Skills for enterprise data tasks in natural language. The capabilities arrive in Q4 2026; Teradata says Tera used 73% fewer tokens and ran 42% faster than Claude Code on SWE-bench Pro.

• Tera Context Engine links metadata, data lineage and access policies without moving data
• Tera Harness picks tools and models, tracks multi-step progress and can pause for human approval
• Agent Skills package SQL, Python and query optimization tasks into reusable functions
• Teradata reports Tera used 73% fewer tokens and ran 42% faster than Claude Code on SWE-bench Pro