Changelog

Improvements

• The Double confirmation setting on checklists now works. It is off by default. Turn it on, and completing an item asks for a second tap before it is marked done.

• Meetings now get a color based on their category, so you can tell different kinds of meetings apart at a glance.

• Workspace members can now pause and resume sandboxes, which previously only workspace admins could do.

Fixes

• The email setting for the feedback digest now takes effect: turning it on or off changes whether you receive the digest.

• JavaScript pasted into a prompt now stays in the prompt instead of being silently dropped.

• Copied blueprints now render correctly.

• When an agent fails to ask you a question during a run, the run view now shows the failure instead of leaving behind a card marked skipped.

• In the Knowledge Base, a page now shows a single title instead of duplicates, the list now reaches its actual end, and the dialog now fits on screen.

Agents now work in your Slack channels

When an agent shares a thread, an artifact, or a project, it arrives as a native Slack card.

Improvements

• The Blueprint research feed is now a journal, with an animation while it waits, and it stays open through drafting, adding a line for the drafting step instead of collapsing to a loading spinner.

Fixes

• Meetings search in the sidebar now matches the order of your calendar and shows upcoming meetings.
• Pasting a large block of text into a dialog no longer pushes the dialog's buttons off screen.
• Updating a template now pre-selects its current editors.
• A chat message with an empty attachment no longer fails to send.
• Agent threads no longer die when a tool returns a very large result; oversized results are capped so the thread keeps working.
• When an agent starts twice, the duplicate run now stands down instead of taking over the conversation.
• Creating a GitHub repository from Obvious no longer fails with an error when your GitHub account is not linked; it now asks you to connect first.

Improvements

• While a meeting is being recorded, it now has a persistent card in the sidebar. The card stays for the whole meeting, instead of a recording indicator that slid away after a few minutes.

• Workspace admins can now upload a photo for the meeting notetaker, instead of choosing a preset icon.

• On phones, creating a new task now opens a full screen instead of a small card, and the buttons are as easy to tap as they are on desktop.

• You can now see who shared a project or chat with another member of your workspace.

• After a custom agent finishes a run, the request for your feedback now appears at most once a day per agent, instead of after every run.

Fixes

• The Daily PR activity chart in Autobuild now opens on today, instead of starting at the oldest day in its period.

• North Star metrics on the Autobuild reports page now load reliably, including the 90-day view.

• Generating a preview of an artifact no longer marks the artifact itself as recently updated.

• When a retry happens during board creation, you no longer end up with duplicate sheets.

• Checklist previews now apply their row limit to the populated rows in your sheet, so blank rows no longer crowd out real content.

• A meeting with several attendees now appears once in team and project meeting lists, instead of once per attendee.

• When you give feedback on how a custom agent should write, the feedback is now saved as a rule the agent follows, instead of rewriting the words of the agent's prompt.

• Feedback you approve on a custom agent now reaches the part of the agent's prompt it contradicts, wherever that part is, so your approval actually changes how the agent behaves.

• The card that asks for your feedback after a custom agent finishes a run now stays in place, instead of being pushed aside when plans, questions, or mode switches appear.

• The tip that explains how to give feedback on a custom agent now appears once per conversation, instead of repeating after every reply.

• Projects created from a task now use the task's title rather than the raw text of the original prompt.

• The count of tasks waiting on you now shows correctly when your sidebar is unpinned.

• Opening Tasks no longer flashes the starter screen first when you already have tasks.

• A task shared directly with you now appears in your Tasks inbox, even when you do not have access to its project.

• The Favorites strip no longer shows projects you have archived.

• Projects now open on the most recently updated conversation, never on a subagent's working transcript.

• Knowledge files with em dashes in their names now load reliably in agent sandboxes.

Connection suggestions

When a message mentions a tool you can connect, a suggestion appears above the chat box. Click it to connect the tool or enter its API key on the spot, without leaving the conversation.

Improvements

• On mobile, the Working bar now starts collapsed, giving the conversation more room on screen.

• Meeting artifacts now save into a flat layout, and saving stays reliable throughout a meeting.

Fixes

• Sandbox files with Unicode characters in their names no longer cause failures.

• References to files in chat no longer disappear when you refresh the page.

• Cancelled tasks no longer linger indefinitely on the thread bar.

• Checklists created from the upload popover now save as a real workbook and sheet instead of temporary data; blank rows in a source sheet no longer create empty preview items; and checklist boards render faster and show load errors instead of failing silently.

Meetings is now generally available!

Meetings is now generally available for every workspace. Connect your calendar and use the Obvious notetaker or notetaker of choice. Automatically route your meeting notes, actions, and decisions to your projects in obvious.

Improvements

• Meetings are searchable, so you can jump straight to any of them without browsing the calendar.

• You can now personalize your meeting notetaker with an agent image and name.

• You can @ mention teammates in meeting proposal revisions to pull them into the discussion.

• Meeting tasks have fuller controls: bulk actions on the tasks page, accept or decline from the context menu, and approval cards inline in the Action tab.

• External meeting notes get their metadata detected automatically, and adding existing meetings to a project separates upcoming from completed.

• A new agent explorer in Autobuild shows each agent's executions, tokens, cost, and success rate, and how orchestrator and delegate agents relate to each other.

• North Star metrics now appear as trend charts on the Autobuild reports page, with 7-day, 30-day, and 90-day periods.

Fixes

• Concurrent checklist editing no longer loses edits: changes from other people always appear, and rapid successive saves keep all their content.

• A comment that mentions the agent partway through no longer loses its text on submit.

• One person starting a new chat no longer switches the thread every other project member is viewing.

• Deep links to older artifacts now open the artifact itself instead of redirecting to the drive.

• On narrow screens, tapping an artifact card now opens the artifact instead of leaving the chat on screen, and the artifacts, home, and tasks pages no longer open with the chat pane expanded.

• Clicking Done in the sidebar customizer no longer permanently replaces your default navigation order.

• Your selected agent persists when you navigate away from the prompt page and back.

• Cancelled tasks fade out of the Working bar instead of lingering indefinitely.

• Plan approvals and dismissals now appear as visible turns in the conversation, with a banner while a plan awaits approval and clear final states on the plan card.

Tasks are Generally Available!

Tasks is now available to every workspace. Manage your tasks with the redesigned task system to manage your tasks and agent tasks in one place.

Improvements

• Every task can now carry an owner alongside its assignee — owners get their own grouping in the task list and appear on the task card.
• Pasting a task link into Slack is now a rich preview of the task. Previews respect each task's permissions — only people who can access the task see its details.
• Plan cards now show a countdown before auto-approval.
• Autobuild manager roles are now available, so members can be granted Autobuild management through a dedicated role.
• Autobuild agents can now save what they learn about a project as they work. Those learnings persist between runs, so each run starts with the project context the previous one built up.
• Skills can now be shared with multiple teams.
• Community commands now show a preview of what they'll do before running.
• Agent threads are now named by the topic being worked on rather than the agent's role, making them easier to find.

Fixes

• Autobuild setup options are now read-only for members without Autobuild management rights.
• The Autobuild connect step is overhauled: existing installations are detected, the connected card is actionable, suspended states are handled consistently, deselected repositories are cleaned up, and the wizard can disconnect and start fresh.
• Google Drive connector imports now work correctly.
• SSO domain verification now returns a clear DNS-resolution error instead of a generic failure.
• Presence indicators now show your active connection correctly, and idle timing accounts for whether the app is visible.
• Chat no longer flashes for a frame when loading a conversation.
• Thread deep links now navigate consistently.
• Switching workbook sheet tabs no longer drops the thread deep-link.

Triage a meeting's proposed tasks without leaving the inbox

Work suggested by a meeting rolls up under a single meeting row in Tasks, with attendee avatars, the meeting date, and a count of proposed tasks. Open the meeting and triage each suggestion — Accept, Accept & run, Decline, Revise, or Skip — in one place. A status rail across the top of the inbox keeps every task's state scannable at a glance.

Decide, thread by thread, who can join the conversation

Thread collaboration is now an explicit choice. A thread stays private to the person running it until you opt it into group collaboration. From there you can share the thread with specific teammates, and people who need in can request access. Workspace admins can turn group chat off entirely for the workspace.

Generate a polished avatar for your custom agent

Custom agents can generate a headshot-quality avatar from the agent's own description, in a locked editorial style that picks up the tint hue you selected. One action from the agent's appearance settings — no image hunting required.

See exactly what a command does before you install it

Community commands in the Explore feed open a full preview before anything is installed: the trigger, the description, the agent guidance, and every binding the command sets up. Look first, install second — and skip the uninstall round-trip when a command isn't what you expected.

Paste external meeting notes and let Obvious fill in the details

Bring notes in from any external system and the meeting's title and participants are detected from the pasted text, mapped straight into a confirm form. Review, edit if needed, and create the meeting note in one pass.

Improvements

• Accept or decline every task a meeting proposed in one action, from the meeting row's menu.
• Review and approve agent plans directly in the task detail view, without hopping back to chat.
• Every share menu searches the same people directory and shows results inline, across inbox, automations, projects, and custom agents.
• Billing and usage entries name the feature they were charged for, in product language.
• Tasks sheds its Preview badge — the inbox and task pages are fully live.
• Task conversations happen in one place — the chat thread on the task detail page.
• The Tasks sidebar splits Recently Completed (last 24 hours) from older Completed work.
• Agent runs route through newer models, with fallback and max-mode slots on Claude Sonnet 5 and Opus 5.

Fixes

• Autobuild's GitHub and repository management actions — including disconnecting GitHub and removing a repository — require admin capability, and the setup wizard is reserved for admins.
• Autobuild setup checklists render read-only for members, and resuming an existing setup opens the setup project only for members who can access it.
• SDK and CLI calls stay scoped to the project they originated from.
• Agent capability restrictions stay enforced when thread details are updated.
• Shared skills are visible to a reader based on the reader's own memberships.
• Repositories created during Autobuild onboarding appear selected and sorted in the wizard, onboarding completes for them, and already-imported repositories are skipped on resubmit.
• Members joining a fully set-up workspace land on the workspace, with the setup screen offered only where setup is actually pending.
• Disconnecting GitHub from workspace settings removes the workspace's installations.
• Approval requests for secrets, questions, and mode switches attach beneath the task that triggered them.
• Blocked tasks group under In Progress, keeping machine-waiting work out of "Waiting on you".
• The plan tab's board and list views show the same subtasks, including failed, scheduled, paused, and dismissed items.
• Merged pull requests in the Outcomes tab show the PR number, status, and CI and review badges.
• Projects named while creating a build-agent task keep the name you entered.
• Autobuild tasks can be reassigned from a person back to an agent.
• Meeting summaries and suggested titles generate from recorded meetings and notes.
• Knowledge items added to a custom agent can be deleted from the agent's Knowledge tab.

Start new repositories right from the dashboard

You can create new repositories without leaving the Obvious dashboard. The repo creation panel shows your organization's available repos and lets you initialize a new one with a default branch — no context switch required.

Skim meeting briefs without opening them

Hover over any meeting in the meetings list to see a brief status indicator. A second popover reveals the full brief content, so you can review outcomes and next steps without opening the meeting.

Pin tasks the moment you create them

The task creation modal now includes a pin toggle, so you can pin a task to the top of your list as you create it — no extra step after.

Give your custom agent its own memory

Memory settings have their own dedicated step in the custom agent wizard, making it easy to configure how your agent uses and retains context across conversations.

Test-drive a custom agent before you commit

The custom agent preview chat is bounded in length and shows you exactly what the agent can do, giving you a focused, low-stakes preview of its capabilities before you ship it.

Plug custom agents into your workspace knowledge base

Workspace knowledge base items now appear as available sources for custom agents, so you can connect your agent to the content your team already relies on.

Drag and drop files straight into custom agent onboarding

The Skills and Sources steps in the custom agent onboarding wizard support drag-and-drop file upload, so you can attach files directly from your desktop — no file picker detour.

Name and style your custom agent as you build it

The custom agent creation wizard now includes an appearance step where you can name your agent and choose its avatar. Your selections apply when the agent is created, so what you see is what you get.

Improvements

• Large workspace inboxes load in a fraction of the time.

• Export bigger projects — the 5,000-file ceiling is gone.

• The Add Knowledge modal in custom agent setup has been rebuilt to match the latest design system.

Fixes

• The custom agent wizard creates skills during pre-build.

• Retrying a failed custom agent build starts a fresh build.

• Disabling a custom agent cancels its in-flight operations.

• Custom agent data is scoped to the requesting workspace.

• Folios are preserved when cloning a project.

• CSV files and HTML pages without a parent import as standalone files.

• Project imports include all folders, sheets, and workbooks with accurate counts.

• Agent runs continue when output reaches the length cap.

• Export stops early when a project exceeds size or file count limits, before processing begins.

• File references stay intact when you move files between folders.

• An unreadable file affects only that file — the project loads normally.

Workspace admins can require MFA for all team members

Workspace owners can enforce multi-factor authentication (TOTP) for every human member of the workspace. Members who haven't enrolled are prompted to set up MFA at both login and workspace entry, so no one can use the workspace without it.

Task-native planning replaces plan cards with approved task skeletons

The agent's planning flow is rebuilt around the task system. When an agent proposes a plan, it creates proposed tasks beneath the orchestrator root that you can approve, reject, or edit individually. Approved tasks spawn worker threads automatically. The plan is a skeleton of real tasks you manage alongside everything else in the project.

Live multiplayer document sync

When two people edit the same document at the same time, each person's changes apply surgically to the other's editor without a full page reload. If both editors have unsaved changes, the server merges them; if there's a genuine conflict, the editor recovers with a retry instead of overwriting.

Thumbs up/down feedback on agent responses

You can leave a thumbs up or thumbs down verdict on any core-agent response directly from the actions row. A "More feedback" link lets you add a free-text comment to amend the verdict.

Cycle chat and artifact width with Cmd+Shift+E

Press Cmd+Shift+E (or Ctrl+Shift+E) to cycle between three layout modes: chat expanded, artifact expanded, and no expansion.

Card-free Frontier plan activation

New autobuilders can start on the Frontier Team Plan without entering a credit card. Signup skips the payment step, so you can begin building immediately and add billing details when you're ready.

Improvements

• The Priority column in the project list shows the priority label alongside the icon, matching every other priority surface in the app.
• Filter chips and picker rows have a redesigned visual style across all surfaces that use the structured filter bar.
• Autobuild plans require verifiable test coverage, and draft mode is excluded from autobuild since it authors its own spec.
• The chat composer toolbar removes three low-use controls: the Shortcuts button (accessible via the plus menu), the @ Mentions button (redundant with typing @ directly), and the "Save as shortcut" hover action on messages.
• Artifact search supports 1-2 character queries with prefix matching, so short search terms reach the server.
• The /prs page search covers your full pull request history, including older PRs beyond what's loaded on the page.
• V3 workspaces show only the agent activity settings that apply to V3 agents.
• The thread list and Drive handle projects with tens of thousands of threads and ~100k documents smoothly.
• Right-clicking any primary navigation link in the global sidebar (Home, Inbox, etc.) shows an "Open in New Tab" option, matching the pattern already available on overflow nav items.
• The commands page has a visibility dropdown matching the templates page. You can browse community commands without leaving the authoring surface.
• When you submit a message with a slash command, the command's display label renders as an inline pill inside the message bubble, so the invoked command is visible in the conversation history.
• Older V2 chat threads are read-only with a one-click migration path to V3.

Fixes

• Cmd+click (and ctrl+click, shift+click, middle-click) opens a new tab for all links on the /prs route.
• A cold /projects page load shows batch action bar buttons as active and the Archive action as visible, without needing a refresh.
• The "Add filter" button in the Tasks/Inbox filter bar opens its dropdown, and clicking a value segment on an existing filter pill shows the value picker for that field.
• The command binding picker scopes skill and agent candidates to the current workspace, preventing names and slugs from other workspaces from appearing.
• The plan approval card defaults the human assignee to the current user when an agent proposes a human-assigned task.
• Disabled legacy automations migrate as paused todos with their trigger intact, preserving the user's pause state.
• Project export/import preserves all content: .md-named documents, workbook sheet names, folder nesting, empty workbooks, and view configurations all survive the round trip.
• Frontier-plan workspaces can add team members without a 403 entitlement error.
• The Frontier plan activation screen shows the Stripe card form with a skip option, includes an "Add a credit card" CTA in the billing banner, and removes the deprecated Frontier event section.
• Thread ownership transfer completes the offboard flow for users who own threads in deleted projects.
• Document previews in the Team Home drawer show HTML tables, comment tags, and formatted marks.
• Dashboard previews in the Team Home drawer render actual chart and text blocks.
• Gallery previews in the Team Home drawer match the project view.
• A user's project session persists when background permission calculations run.
• Stopping a V3 worker thread pauses the bound subtask as the thread owner.
• The slash command menu dismisses on spacebar regardless of whether text has been typed after the slash.
• Slack bot workspace eligibility checks resolve for users who previously couldn't verify their access.
• The agent can read web pages with special mathematical characters.
• The V3 threadbar expand chevron only appears when there are navigable subthreads.

Dock Notes to a persistent panel

Notes can be docked to a persistent panel in the bottom-right corner, staying visible while you navigate between projects.

Preview artifacts on Team Home without leaving the page

Clicking an artifact on Team Home opens a preview panel instead of leaving the page — documents render inline, pull requests show a full status summary, and Open in Project (now in the header) takes you straight to that artifact within the project.

See Autobuild suggestions in a new Improvements tab

Autobuild workspaces have an Improvements tab that surfaces suggestions generated from .obvious editor activity, tracked through to the pull request that applied them.

Connect any of eight meeting notetakers

Circleback, Fathom, Fireflies, Otter, Fellow, Read.ai, Avoma, and Plaud meeting notetaker connectors are available to every workspace.

A redesigned filter, sort, and display toolbar for Projects

The Projects page has a new filter, sort, and display toolbar: a unified filter rack with a configurable display menu, a shared sort model, and reorderable columns.

Ask the agent to organize your project folders

The agent can create, rename, and move workspace project folders, and search across them.

Improvements

• Slash commands support a prompt binding type that stores prefilled text directly, without requiring a shortcut.
• Spend Controls settings has a dedicated Allocations tab for project and user allocations.
• Grok 4.6 is available as a model option.
• Recall usage is billed for workspaces that have billing enabled.
• Workspace admins can set whether new hosted apps publish automatically or start unpublished.
• The shared-task badge on Tasks rows uses a bell icon, matching the icon used for the Subscriptions filter.
• Clicking a PR-review task in Tasks opens directly to the PR artifact tab.
• The Tasks toolbar condenses into Search, Filter, and Display icons, with search expanding inline over the page title when used.
• The Pull Requests page reflects merges and other status changes live, without needing to refilter.
• Task titles and descriptions can be edited even after the task is completed, cancelled, or failed.
• The Inbox surface is called Tasks, and lives at /tasks instead of /agents (old links still redirect).
• When asking the agent to search and nothing turns up in the current project, it automatically checks the rest of the workspace too.
• The Tasks list header is a single compact heading showing the task count, instead of a heading plus a separate count pill.
• Saved views in Projects show as tabs you can click directly, instead of being hidden behind a Saved Views dropdown.
• Skills and PR list pages use the same filter rack, display menu, and column controls as the Projects list.
• The Create Meeting button and modal are available to every workspace with a calendar connected.
• The projects page filter toolbar has clearer tabs, ghost icon buttons, a shared-views dropdown, and tighter table spacing.
• The SharePoint connector's tenant ID field can be hidden or shown, and is hidden by default.
• The SharePoint connector modal shows a tooltip explaining where to find your tenant ID.
• Meeting sharing uses a recipient-first panel to choose who to share with.
• Delegate subagent chains anchor to the run that created or unblocked them instead of swapping cards, and response text streams in with a smooth word-by-word reveal.
• The New project button sits in the header's right-aligned actions area.
• Deleting a secret or disconnecting a connector asks for confirmation first.
• The Feature Experiments page has clearer descriptions and tooltips, and Meetings is now Generally Available.

Fixes

• Approving an overage request grants credits even when the request was created without an allocation selected.
• Favorited projects appear in the Favorites section only, and other sidebar sections such as My Recent reflect your visited projects as expected.
• Image artifacts display their full-resolution original, not just the thumbnail.
• In the Autobuild setup wizard, the "PR ready" status links to the pull request, the platform picker only shows platforms your workspace has access to, and a retry button appears after a failed import.
• Question actions in Tasks — answering, assigning, or skipping — affect only the specific question, leaving other questions on the same card open, and answered cards stay answered even if a duplicate submission arrives later.
• Replying to a blueprint feedback comment thread notifies the agent automatically, even without an @Obvious mention.
• The Autobuild setup checklist shows a clickable pull request link for each repo (falling back to the repository's PRs page when a specific link can't be resolved), flags repos whose setup pull request was closed without merging, marks finished repos as Done, lets you dismiss repos from the list, and shows a completion banner once every repo's setup has merged.
• Clearing filters in Tasks resets everything in a single step, and the search box stays in sync with the URL after you navigate away.
• Meeting auto-join for Google Calendar respects which calendars you've selected to sync, matching Outlook and the existing cron behavior.
• Pausing a task in Tasks keeps it visible in an expanded Paused section, and a paused task with unfinished subtasks stays paused.
• Meetings without a linked calendar account (ad-hoc recordings, Granola, other notetakers) can be attached to a project from any of the meeting-linking controls, not just the upload popover.
• Autobuild signup invite links expire after 14 days and only work for the email address they were sent to.
• Selecting an option in a chat question form keeps the chat pane visible.
• Chat scrolls to show new messages in threads using the collaborative view.
• Users with project edit permission can edit a Blueprint from any thread or agent mode.
• A task waiting on a dependency shows as waiting in the task bar, delegate card, and thread list.
• Assigned-question notifications open the task that holds the underlying agent thread, so the full question set is answered in one place.