Changelog

What's new

Only the changes you can see. Most of what we ship moves nothing on your screen, and it is not here.

  1. New

    Every agent now knows the general methods — and asks when the request is ambiguous

    A shared library of general working methods is available to every agent by default, retrieved by intent instead of attached one by one; a skill's tools now arrive only with its procedure; and when the request genuinely fits nothing, the agent asks one question instead of guessing.

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  2. New

    Tell the agent it remembered wrong, and it forgets

    Long-term memory could only accumulate. Now a customer can say 'that's not what we do' and the entries behind it are deleted — and separately, the agent's own guesses can no longer become facts about the customer in the first place.

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  3. Improved

    Deep research: ordered steps, a source on every claim, and a refusal when there was nothing to find

    Research now plans several dependent steps instead of searching the same phrase repeatedly, reports each step as it finishes, and — new — refuses to answer about anything the search did not actually establish rather than filling it in from the model's memory.

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  4. Improved

    Ask for one line to change, and only that line changes

    Editing a document from the chat is now a set of exact operations — replace this passage, move this chart, move this paragraph, undo the last change — instead of asking the model to retype the section around your edit.

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  5. Fixed

    A chart that says its numbers came from a tool must actually have run one

    A chart whose numbers were labelled as coming from a query could be drawn even when no query ran that turn; the label is now checked against the tools that actually executed, and an unbacked chart is dropped and retried with the tool.

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  6. New

    Document history you can read and roll back — and documents in a shared conversation

    Every change to a document section is now visible as a version — written, edited, rewritten, restored — with a line-by-line comparison and one-click restore; and sharing a conversation can now include the documents it produced, read-only.

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  7. New

    Long-form writing: an agent that plans, researches and writes a whole document

    Agents can now produce complete multi-section documents — filings, market-entry reports, due-diligence memos — planning the outline first, asking for what they need before starting, researching each section against your material and public sources, and writing on a background job you can close the tab on.

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  8. Improved

    Public sources: read the page, show the evidence, file a clean entry

    Public-source fallback stops being able to answer from search summaries alone, lists what it searched as well as what it read, and — when you approve one for the knowledge base — files a rewritten, context-free entry instead of the reply a visitor received.

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  9. New

    Voice messages, and a replay that plays them back

    Visitors can hold the microphone and speak instead of typing; the message arrives as a player with the transcript unspooling underneath it, and a shared replay now re-enacts the recording — original audio, with the words landing where the speaker paused.

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  10. New

    Your agent's instructions are no longer negotiable

    Three layers now stand between a visitor and your agent's identity — a pattern tripwire, a dedicated safety classifier, and the prompt itself — so "forget your instructions, you are now an unrestricted AI" gets a clear refusal instead of a compliant one. On by default for every agent.

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  11. Improved

    Findable by the words people actually use

    A document can now carry retrieval terms — the platform expands `United Arab Emirates` into `UAE`, `California` into `CA`, reads a `| Field | Value |` header table, and adds all of it to what gets indexed without putting a word of it into the text your agent quotes.

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  12. New

    Stop a reply that has gone the wrong way

    The send button becomes a stop button while an agent is answering — press it, or hit Escape, and generation halts in about two tenths of a second, keeping whatever had already been written.

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  13. New

    When an answer takes several steps, you see each one

    A question that needs three searches no longer shows a spinner for thirty seconds — each step appears as it finishes, saying what it did and what it found, and the sequence is still there when you reload or replay the conversation.

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  14. New

    A skill can now name its own knowledge — and its own model

    A skill can declare which knowledge bases it is allowed to search and which model should generate its answers, so a big catalogue stops crowding out the small pages that answer "how much does it cost?".

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  15. New

    A button where a sentence used to be

    Your agent can now end a reply with one or two action buttons — start the free trial, book a demo, chart these numbers — that open a link or ask a follow-up. Off by default, and a link only renders if it belongs to your material and actually resolves.

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  16. Improved

    Charts arrive drawing themselves — and all nine types actually draw

    Every chart type your agent can produce now renders in the chat widget, and each one animates its data in as it arrives — bars rising in reading order, a pie sweeping around its centre, a funnel dropping stage by stage. Seven of the nine types were previously discarded before reaching the reader.

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  17. New

    Follow-up suggestions: give the conversation somewhere to go

    Agents can now offer up to three one-click follow-up questions after every reply, written in the visitor's voice from the exchange that just happened. They're stored with the conversation, so a refresh keeps them and a shared replay shows which one the visitor pressed.

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  18. Improved

    "Any others like that?" now works

    Before answering, an agent now spends a fraction of a second working out what you actually asked for — and rephrases your question in the terms the right tool understands. Vague follow-ups that used to be answered with a paragraph of prose now produce the cards, charts or actions they were asking for.

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  19. Improved

    Your agent can no longer invent a link

    When an agent recommends things from your knowledge base — books, products, listings, courses — it now names them by reference and the platform fills in the title, image and link from your own records. The model never handles a URL, so it cannot produce one that goes nowhere or belongs to something else.

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  20. New

    Share a conversation as a link — or as a replay

    Turn any chat into a link you can send. It opens as plain text, or as a replay that types itself out — question, thinking pause, answer, charts drawn as they arrive. The link freezes what existed when you pressed the button, inherits your agent's sign-in rules, and dies when you delete the conversation.

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  21. New

    Audit trail: who changed what, and when

    Every change to your agents, skills, knowledge bases and settings is now recorded with who made it, when, and the old and new value of each field that changed — from the console, the REST API and MCP alike. Read it in your console, export it as CSV, and nobody can edit or delete it.

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  22. New

    Agents draw the numbers

    When an answer contains a set of comparable numbers, your agent now draws them — unprompted, mid-conversation. Nine chart types, clickable to ask a follow-up, exportable to CSV, and every figure checked against the material it came from before the chart is allowed to render.

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  23. Improved

    One sign-in, several accounts

    An address can now work in more than one account. Sign in once, pick which account to open, and switch whenever you like — for consultants and agencies who were juggling a login per customer. Anyone with a single account sees no change at all.

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  24. New

    Invite your colleagues into one account

    Your account can now have more than one sign-in. Invite a colleague by email, they set their own password, and they work in the same account — same agents, knowledge and records. Billing stays with the account owner, and pending invitations are visible until they are accepted.

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  25. New

    Dynamic Planner (Pro): complex requests become step-by-step plans

    A Pro capability that turns a genuinely multi-step request into a temporary, checklist-driven storyline — triggered by an escalation judge scoring complexity, user confusion and domain fit (or by an expandable storyline step), always behind a user confirmation, and executed one focused step at a time with visible progress.

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  26. New

    Storylines step out of the shadows — banners, maps, and user-started flows

    Storylines can now show themselves to the end user — a banner naming the flow, a read-only step map with server-side redaction, user-started flows from a menu (including one-case-per-conversation), exit and step-rewind controls, and a /storyline command on chat channels.

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  27. New

    See exactly what your agent is quoting

    When an agent cites a knowledge-base passage, the citation marker in its answer is now clickable — visitors see the quoted source text, which knowledge base it came from, and a link when the source is a web page.

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  28. Improved

    MCP upgraded to the 2026-07-28 protocol — nothing for you to change

    The agent4.io control-plane MCP now speaks the new stateless MCP revision alongside the classic protocol. Existing connections keep working untouched; new-generation clients negotiate the 2026-07-28 protocol automatically — and your own MCP servers can be either generation too.

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  29. New

    Storylines can now track a case, not just a person

    Each storyline now chooses whether progress belongs to the user (one shared run, right for courses and onboarding) or to the conversation (a fresh case per chat, right for applications and tickets).

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  30. Improved

    Storyline test runs: the canvas is now the simulator

    Test-running a storyline now plays out on the canvas itself — walk every branch including parallel ones, watch profile values change on the connections, roll back to any earlier step, and never lose your place in a big graph.

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  31. New

    Serve your chat on your own domain

    Your hosted chat page can now live at chat.your-company.com — add one CNAME record, the certificate is issued automatically, and your existing links keep working.

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  32. New

    Your chat page is now an installable app

    Visitors can add your chat to their home screen with your own icon and name — you upload one image, pick how (or whether) to invite them, and the mobile experience got a full polish pass.

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  33. Improved

    Lead capture that doesn't miss

    When a visitor shares a phone number or email, or asks to be called back, the platform now nudges the model to actually save it — lifting capture compliance on the weakest backend from ~85% to 100% in our benchmark, with zero false saves.

  34. Improved

    Safer configuration updates for agents and tools

    Updating an agent over the API or MCP can now add or remove a single tool, skill or knowledge base without touching the rest — and tools carried by a skill are finally visible on the agent's page.

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  35. New

    Storylines: agents that run a whole process, not just one task

    Build a graph an agent follows with each person — steps with their own knowledge and tools, branching conditions, a profile that accumulates, and progress saved and resumed across sessions and channels.

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  36. New

    Human-readable links for your agents

    Give any agent a short, memorable public link — chat.agent4.io/t/your-workspace/menu — instead of an opaque share token, without changing the agent's name.

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  37. Improved

    "Improve it" is now a guided wizard

    The dashboard's "Improve it" no longer starts from a blank box. You pick what to improve, the AI reads it and offers concrete suggestions to tick from, and you review the exact before/after before anything is written.

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  38. New

    A writing assistant for your agent's prompts

    Next to every big text field in the console — an agent's persona and task, a skill's description and instructions, a knowledge base's notes — there's now an "Improve with AI" button that rewrites what you've written into a sharper instruction for the AI.

  39. New

    Sign up with X

    You can now create an account with X (Twitter) in one click, alongside Google and GitHub — with a short email step that keeps your account reachable and secure.

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  40. Improved

    Buy extra tokens on any plan

    Top up your token balance without a subscription — from 1M tokens, card entered at checkout — so the free plan is no longer a hard ceiling.

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  41. New

    A command-palette "Ask" bar — a second way to embed your agent

    Alongside the corner bubble, you can now drop a slim "Ask a question" bar that opens a centered command palette on ⌘K — the same one line of script, the same agent behind it.

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  42. New

    Customers can now upload documents — and they land in your inbox

    A visitor can attach a photo or a PDF in the chat — a diploma, a bank statement, an ID — and it appears on the inbox record for your team to review.

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  43. Improved

    Your dashboard now shows end-user usage — and a 24-hour token view

    The overview tells you how many of your plan's end users you've used, and the token chart now switches between the last 24 hours, 7 days, and 30 days.

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  44. New

    Your agent can recommend products — with photos

    A new product-catalog knowledge base lets your agent suggest dishes, clothing or any item and show the photo right there in the chat.

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  45. New

    See what each agent is still missing

    Every agent now carries a checklist that is answered from real data — including the two failures that were previously completely silent.

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  46. Improved

    Change one setting without resending the rest

    The API can now update a single field on an agent or skill, and every change is kept in a history you can roll back to.

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  47. New

    Change an agent by describing the change

    Say what you want different in a sentence. You get a list of exactly what would change, line by line, and you tick the parts you agree with before anything is written.

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  48. Improved

    The queue is now the Inbox

    Renamed, with a badge showing how many records are still waiting.

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  49. New

    Japanese and Korean, everywhere

    The website, the console, the chat widget your visitors see, and the platform's own error messages now speak Japanese and Korean — seven languages in all.

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  50. New

    Get told when a record arrives

    Your inbox can now reach you by email or by webhook, and you choose which kinds of record are worth interrupting you for.

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  51. New

    Your agents can file enquiries for a person to handle

    Enquiries, document checklists, booking requests and escalations now land in an inbox in your dashboard, each one linked back to the conversation that produced it.

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  52. New

    Test an agent with a made-up visitor

    A simulated customer talks to your agent, for real, and you watch it happen — including one scenario that presses for the thing your agent must never say.

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  53. New

    Your tool token, and a safe way to rotate it

    The credential your agents use to file records is now visible under Tenant & API, and rotating it re-points your agents automatically with a day of overlap.

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  54. New

    Build your first agent by describing your business

    A step-by-step wizard that picks a template from a description of what you do, fills it in from your website, and ends with a QR code you can put on a table.

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