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Improvements

  • Scheduled task descriptions and review header summaries now show their full text in the dashboard, for every review type.
  • You can see the CI health of each repository's default branch right in the Settings repo list.
  • Each member's GitHub and Slack connection status and actions sit in a menu on their row on the Members page.

Fixes

  • The full-page plan review always shows the complete approach and every task description. Nothing is truncated behind Show more or Show less.
  • Approving or denying a plan that another Slack agent shared resolves the plan's thread as soon as you click. Plans that were already shared work the same way, with nothing to repost.

An agent's home is one right-click away

Right-clicking an agent's avatar now shows an Open agent home menu, so you can jump straight to that agent's home from a chat or mention.

Improvements

  • We renamed Custom Agents to Agents across the product.

Fixes

  • Hosted apps follow your app publishing setting. When publishing is off, your workspace's hosted apps stay private to your workspace. If you never changed the setting, nothing changes for you.
  • Your workspace's own skills keep their place when skills sync, even if a repo skill shares their name.
  • When a model response stops at its output limit, the message says so, and your thread keeps going.

Improvements

  • You can now upload a custom image to use as your assistant's avatar. Pick one in your assistant's settings under the Identity section, and it appears wherever your assistant does.
  • Invite someone who already has an account to a workspace, and they get an email with their invitation.

Improvements

  • Plans now fill the whole panel instead of a narrow card, so you can read the full plan in place.
  • Close open PRs in bulk from the new Close all PRs menu on the Autobuild PRs surface.
  • Simpler PR views in Autobuild, with multi-select defaults that are personal to you, make the surface easier to work in.
  • Expanded PR rows and build summaries in Autobuild give you more detail in the PR list.
  • Sidebar cards on the Autobuild builds view now show counts of successful subtasks and PR outputs.
  • The Progress pane in the Autobuild build drawer shows real stage outcomes and reconciled step summaries.

Fixes

  • When a task includes a plan awaiting approval, the approval action is on the plan card.
  • PR rows in Autobuild show the matching workspace user for external PR authors.
  • PR reports in Slack now post as soon as PRs are known, so you see them earlier.

Repo skills join your workspace surfaces

Skills that live in your repositories now appear alongside workspace skills: once a repository is opted in, its skills show up in discovery, the SDK, rosters, and matching.

Improvements

  • Claude Haiku 5.5 is available in the model picker, and existing selections keep working.
  • Your email drafts live in one place: replies thread under the original message, drafts save by default as you write, and you can edit an email during review.
  • When you create a repo, you can choose which account it belongs to, and sandbox provisioning completes in a single step.
  • Undo and Redo now work on the Execution Loop canvas, and Cmd+Z brings back a step right after you delete it.
  • Builds in the Autobuild builds catalog sort by their most recent activity, and each build shows how long it has been in its current state.
  • QA evidence from pull requests appears in the build drawer's evidence tab.
  • Snoozed work leaves Waiting on you, the digest, and the feed, and comes back when the snooze ends.

Fixes

  • Skills stored in repositories follow one availability rule across discovery, the SDK, rosters, and uploads: they are available only when their repository is enabled and opted in.
  • QA evidence in the build drawer opens from a fresh link every time you view it.
  • The step editor labels each decision target with the target step's name.

October 7, 2026

Review QA evidence for every build

Open a build and its Evidence tab shows the QA evidence recorded during the build, gathered from its runs, so you can review what happened without leaving the build drawer.

Improvements

  • You can filter the Autobuild builds view to just your own builds, so your work is easy to find when the rest of the workspace is building too.
  • You can snooze a task through the API so it waits until a time you choose and comes back on its own.
  • Workspace admins can make a repo's skills available to the whole workspace.

Fixes

  • Automatic Drafts appear in the Autobuild builds view, so pending proposals stay in sight while you review builds.

Shape the Execution Loop on a canvas

The Execution Loop graph is a canvas: add, connect, and delete steps in place, with undo. A step reads the same in the list and on the graph.

Improvements

  • Autobuild lists, build cards, and kanban board columns sort by how long each card has been in its current state, so the order shows what is fresh and what has been waiting.
  • See at a glance when your meeting starts: the expanded meeting card counts down by the second, follows a rescheduled start, and shows the provider's logo on the Join button.
  • Join and Add to project arrive as a single notification.
  • Choose how much warning you get before a meeting starts; the setting has its own menu item.
  • MCP providers that connect with static credentials open their connect form from every entry point.
  • Connect FullStory and Subtext through the MCP catalog.
  • Skills can use your named Subtext and FullStory connections.
  • See a build's cost and total duration at the top of the build drawer.

Fixes

  • Streaming replies resume on their own when they pause.
  • The Offline indicator appears only when a connection check confirms the app is unreachable.
  • Send failures show on the message action row.
  • Each step of an agent run records its action results even when it is interrupted while finishing.
  • Attaching QA evidence removes outdated PR evidence blocks.
  • Your agent keeps your language across progress updates, replies, and the text it writes.
  • The agent browser can enter supplied passwords into write-only fields.

Review and approve pull requests beside your work

A PR panel sits beside your work with PR, Agent, and Spec tabs, so the changes, the agent run, and the spec stay in view while you review. Approve a PR right from the panel header. New PR cards link to the thread that created them, and tasks in the run view group by run step. In the PR list, shift-click selects a range of rows, and the row of the PR you have open highlights.

Link tasks to your Slack channel

The Slack skill links a task to a channel: task progress, plans, and outcomes hand off to the channel's Obvi, and updates post as artifact and conversation cards. Delegation cards let you hand work to it, and any of your agents can use the skill.

Share Kits and see how to use them

Kit detail pages and kit.md files are publicly readable, so you can share a kit and anyone can read what it does. Each kit's anchor project tells you what the kit is for, with numbered how-to steps and a component inventory, and the receipt includes a "How to use it" section. In the builder, you can compose project templates as kit members. First Run is optional in kit.md, so kits without one render. A kit conductor in review shows Needs attention instead of Active.

Improvements

  • Installing a community skill creates your own editable copy in your workspace, so you can adapt it to how you work.
  • Your agent's browser tool can read a page's developer console and network requests during a chat, so it can debug page issues on its own.
  • In Autobuild, coder workers write your build's code: the Implement stage hands its coding work to them.

Fixes

  • Task assignment notifications name the assigned task in the title, so you can tell which task it is without opening it.
  • In chat, clicking an attachment badge opens the file it belongs to.
  • Failed OAuth callbacks show their errors on the Autobuild evidence step, so you can see what went wrong.

Improvements

  • Notifications about a person's action show that person's avatar and a badge naming what they did, comment rows show the quoted message, unread rows get a new blue dot, and titles get straight to the point.

  • Each step of an agent run starts almost immediately, so a run keeps moving with little waiting between steps.

  • You can open the Tasks settings panel from the gear icon in Tasks.

  • An agent can record a video of a page in a desktop browser, save it to the project's Drive, and point you to the recording.

  • You can remove a meeting that is not live from your meetings list and restore it from the Archived filter, or delete it permanently.

  • Reviewing a PR from the PRs drawer opens the review experience directly, you can close stale PRs in bulk from the PRs list, and tooltips across the PRs page are clearer.

  • Your chat draft survives a brief pause. An open page finishes its response and is ready when you return.

Waiting on you shows the work that needs you

In Tasks, Waiting on you gathers everything that needs you in one place, so you can see it all at a glance. Open any item to act on it.

Routines are easier to create and trust

Describe what you want in plain language and the Routine builder takes it from there. Run history shows what actually happened. Each Routine keeps its own agent and identity, separate from tasks.

Improvements

  • In a chat, the pinned plan or question card collapses when you scroll to the bottom, freeing up reading space.
  • You can connect Ordinal through a native MCP connection in the connector catalog.
  • Scrolling back through a chat's message history is faster, and timeline ticks jump exactly where you pick.
  • In the turn inspector, latency timeline strips show you which turns are slow, so you can tell where a run lost time.
  • Each notification type has its own email template, so the emails you receive fit the notification that triggered them.
  • Meetings use DeepSeek V4.1 Flash by default.
  • Each person can dismiss their own Kits activation receipts, superseded activations collapse into history, and failure reasons come in plain language.
  • You can cancel Autobuild pull requests in bulk through the API.

Fixes

  • When several commits land in quick succession, Autobuild starts a single run for the latest one.
  • Email, SMS, and Slack notifications arrive even when an Obvious tab is open in the background.
  • When you redeem a plan offer during a trial, the next-charge preview shows your charge date and amount based on when your trial ends.