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New releases and improvements to the Abundly platform.
January 29, 2026
Attack detection, evals, and security alerts

Configurable Security Alert Recipients

Admins can now control who receives attack detection notifications. Choose from three recipient modes: all admins, admins plus additional emails, or custom emails only. You can also optionally include the blocked content in alert emails for debugging.
  • Recipient modes — All admins (default), admins + additional, or custom only
  • Include blocked content — Optional toggle to see what was blocked

Smarter Attack Detection

Attack detection now focuses specifically on actual LLM manipulation attempts like prompt injection and jailbreaks. This reduces false positives for legitimate messages.
  • No longer flagged — Angry customers, rude tone, sensitive topics (medications, personal data), legal threats, urgent demands
  • Still blocked — Prompt injection, jailbreak attempts, fake system messages, hidden instructions
This is especially important if you’re routing a support inbox to your agent — customers don’t know they’re talking to an AI and may express frustration or discuss sensitive matters.

Conversation Weight Indicator

New visual indicator in the chat bar showing how much context has accumulated in your conversation. As context grows, each message costs more credits — this helps you know when it’s time to start a fresh chat.
  • Visual ring — Circular progress that fills as context grows
  • Color coding — Gray → yellow → orange → red as cost increases
  • Quick help — Click the indicator to open optimization tips

Enhanced Eval Testing

The eval system now supports more powerful testing scenarios with tool-level control and flexible grading options.
  • Fake tools — Simulate external service responses during test runs
  • Validation rules — Assert that specific tools were (or were not) called
  • Grader scope — Choose whether the grader sees the full transcript or just the final response
  • Smoke test mode — Skip the grader entirely and pass if the eval runs without errors

MCP + Gemini Compatibility

MCP tools now work properly with Gemini models. Tool schemas are automatically sanitized to remove JSON Schema features that Gemini’s function calling API doesn’t support.
January 23, 2026
Security & admin controls

Attack Detection for Email and SMS Triggers

Incoming emails and SMS messages are now automatically scanned for potential attacks before your agent processes them. The system detects prompt injection attempts, social engineering, data exfiltration, jailbreak attempts, and reconnaissance attacks.
  • Blocked attacks — Suspicious messages are blocked and logged in the activity log with a clear indicator
  • Admin alerts — Team admins receive email notifications when attacks are detected and blocked

Update Instructions Restrictions

Admins can now control when and who can use the “Update Instructions” capability, adding an extra layer of safety for production agents.
  • Chat only — Restrict instruction updates to chat conversations only (blocks autonomous triggers from modifying instructions)
  • Editors only — When chat-only is enabled, further restrict to users with Edit access or higher

Batch User Invites

Add multiple users to a group simultaneously instead of one at a time, making team onboarding faster.

Agent Evals Improvements

Several enhancements to the evals experience:
  • Run management — Delete entire eval runs, duplicate existing evals
  • Grader configuration — Configure and display the grader model used for evaluation
  • Transcript view — Toggle between friendly and raw JSON transcript views
  • Navigation — Clickable result badges in the list view for quick access
January 21, 2026
Agent Evals & Template Creation

Agent Evals

New comprehensive evaluation system for testing and validating agent behavior. Define test cases, run them across multiple models, and track results over time.
  • New capability — Enable the Evals capability to let your agent manage its own test cases
  • Test definitions — Create evals with trigger prompts and grader prompts
  • Grading options — Support for pass/fail and 1-10 rating scales
  • Multi-model testing — Run the same eval across different models to compare performance
  • Results grid — Visual comparison of results across models
  • Credit tracking — See credits used for both test and grader phases
  • Agent tools — When enabled, agents get access to list_evals, create_eval, edit_eval, and run_evals tools
Learn more about testing your agents in the Evals documentation.

Template-based agent creation

Create agents from external links with pre-filled prompts — perfect for use case pages and onboarding flows.
  • URL parameters — Support for createAgent=true, name=, and prompt= parameters
  • Auth flow preservation — Parameters preserved through signup and team selection
  • Pre-filled chat — Chat input automatically populated with the template prompt
  • Clone support — Also works when cloning agents with predefined name and prompt

Agent management sorting

The agent management table now supports column sorting:
  • Sortable columns — Click any column header to sort by name, status, privacy, usage, or admins
  • Visual indicators — Sort direction shown with arrow icons
  • Alphabetical admin sorting — Admin column sorts by name, not count

Improvements

  • Simplified agent creation — Removed description field, pre-fills name with “New Agent”
  • Better onboarding — New users auto-redirected to team creation when that’s the only option
  • Login flow — Users now return to their intended page after login (callbackUrl support)

Bug fixes

  • Fixed inline code blocks rendering on separate lines instead of inline with text
  • Fixed login redirect incorrectly sending team members to admin page
  • Handled deleted users gracefully in chat (shows neutral avatar instead of error)
January 14, 2026
Create Team & Document Bookmarks

Create new team

Existing users can now create their own team directly from the portal:
  • Trial support — New users get a free trial period
  • Immediate payment — Users with existing billing history can subscribe directly
  • Simple flow — Just name your team and you’re ready to go

Document bookmarking

Agent documents can now be bookmarked via URL, making it easier to share and navigate directly to specific documents.Capabilities now include direct links to documentation, making it easier to learn how to use each integration.

Improvements

  • MCP server authentication — Fixed modal blocking and improved OAuth validation
  • Welcome page — Refreshed design with resource link cards
  • Profile pictures — OAuth profile pictures now sync on every sign-in
January 9, 2026
Native Image Support & Memory UI

Enhanced data isolation

Major architectural improvement for enterprise-grade security: the web portal no longer has direct database access. All data operations now go through a dedicated service layer, enabling physical separation between frontend and data storage for enhanced data protection and compliance.This is one step in an ongoing process to enable full data isolation for enterprise customers.

Native image support

Agents can now view images directly using Claude, GPT, and Gemini’s vision capabilities:
  • Use the new get_media_content tool to analyze images natively
  • Supports JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, and HEIC/HEIF (iOS photos)
  • 5MB size limit per image for Claude
  • Agents automatically use this when working with image documents

Improved chat file uploads

File uploads in chat are now faster and smarter:
  • Files are stored as chat-scoped documents with on-demand transcription
  • Manual “Transcribe” button available in the document panel
  • Agents can promote chat documents to permanent agent documents
  • Chat documents are automatically cleaned up when the chat is deleted

Memory management UI

Browse and manage your agent’s memories from a new dedicated interface:
  • Search memories using semantic similarity
  • Create, edit, and delete memories directly
  • Adjustable similarity threshold for better recall
  • Access from the Memory capability card

Text-to-speech providers

Choose your preferred voice provider for agent speech:
ProviderModels
ElevenLabsMultilingual v2, Turbo v2.5 (default)
OpenAIStandard TTS voices

MCP server improvements

MCP capabilities now support auto-connect and better agent understanding through LLM help text descriptions.
December 18, 2025
Document Controls & Delegate Tasks

Document visibility badge

See and change document visibility with a single click:
  • New badge shows visibility level at a glance
  • Click to quickly change visibility via popover
  • Works in both list view and document panel

Enhanced delegate task tool

More control when delegating tasks to sub-agents:
  • Specify which LLM model to use
  • Set temperature and enable thinking mode
  • Better capability validation

Email & SMS whitelisting

Filter incoming messages before they reach your agent:
  • Configure sender whitelists for emails
  • Configure phone number whitelists for SMS
  • Filtering happens before LLM processing

Audio transcription recovery

New recovery modal when transcription fails — retry or dismiss failed transcriptions easily.

Large data documents

Data documents with thousands of items are now handled gracefully with automatic truncation.

Folder conversations

The “Talk about this” button now works for folders, letting you discuss entire folder contents with your agent.
December 12, 2025
MCP Server Integration

MCP server integration

Connect your agents to external tools using Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers:
  • Access thousands of external tools through MCP
  • OAuth authentication support with automatic token refresh
  • MCP capabilities appear alongside regular capabilities
  • Agents can suggest MCP capabilities during conversations
Learn more about connecting MCP servers in the MCP integration guide.
December 9, 2025
Rich Documents & Chat Sorting

Rich markdown documents

Markdown documents now support more content types:
  • Inline SVG images and HTML elements
  • Mermaid diagrams embedded directly in code blocks
  • Better version selection for diagrams

Chat improvements

  • Activity sorting — chats now sorted by most recent activity instead of creation date
  • Copy messages — copy any agent message to clipboard with one click (appears on hover)
December 4, 2025
New UI & Image Generation

New UI design

Complete design refresh with improved layout and visual hierarchy:
  • Revamped expandable panels and drag-and-drop functionality
  • Full mobile responsiveness — the entire platform now works beautifully on phones and tablets
  • Refined color scheme and improved readability
  • Better modals and tooltip behavior

AI image generation

Gemini image generation is now the default provider with better quality and faster results:
  • Unified image generation and editing
  • Provider selection (Gemini vs OpenAI) with advanced options
  • Support for aspect ratio and image size parameters
  • Download button for generated images

Visual PDF reading

New tool extracts text from complex PDFs using AI vision:
  • Handles PDFs with images, tables, charts, and complex layouts
  • Extracts content that standard text extraction misses

Publish original files

When publishing documents, you can now include the original file alongside the published content.
November 27, 2025
Data Documents & Admin Tools

Data document import/export

You can now import and export data documents with full control over how data is handled:
  • Append or replace — choose whether to add to existing data or start fresh
  • Duplicate detection — automatic ID conflict detection with option to replace with new IDs
  • Auto-validation — JSON is automatically cleaned and validated on import
When adding items via the insertDocumentData tool, you no longer need to manually assign IDs — they’re generated automatically.

Data document versioning

Data document changes are now saved as versions, just like regular agent documents. View history, compare versions, and track changes over time.

Admin agent overview

Customer and group admins now have a dedicated overview page showing all agents at a glance — view capabilities, ownership, and group membership in one place.
November 19, 2025
Gemini 3 & Group Management

Gemini 3 is now available

Google’s latest Gemini 3 models are now fully supported in Abundly. Select Gemini 3 from the model picker to try it out.

Group management improvements

  • Collapsible groups — organize your workspace by expanding and collapsing agent groups
  • Better invitations — improved invitation system with proper group role handling
  • Role clarity — clear distinction between customer-level and group-level roles

Drag files anywhere

Drop files anywhere in the chat window, not just the input field.
November 12, 2025
Agent Groups & Document Visibility

Agent groups

Organize your agents into custom groups for better workspace management:
  • Shared billing — common billing across groups while maintaining fine-grained access control
  • Collapsible interface — expand and collapse groups with smooth transitions
  • Access control — groups support proper permissions and are customer-specific

Document visibility controls

New visibility settings help your agents focus on what matters:
VisibilityBehavior
FullAlways included in agent’s context
SummaryBasic info only — saves tokens
SearchableFindable via search but not in prompt
HiddenNot visible to the agent

Agent-to-agent improvements

  • Conversational context maintained across multiple agent calls
  • Agents can temporarily grant other agents read/write access to specific documents
  • Feature is now stable — removed beta warning!

Gemini integration fixed

Gemini models now work reliably via Vertex AI with improved error handling.

Advanced data queries

Data documents now support MongoDB-style query operators: $or, $and, $nor, $not
October 29, 2025
Security & Gemini Support

Enhanced file security

Files now require authenticated access via secure proxy endpoints with file access logging for audit trails.

Google Gemini models

Gemini models are now available as an LLM option. Switch to Gemini from the model selector in any chat.

Document management improvements

  • Semantic search — find data documents using natural language queries
  • Hidden documents — mark documents as hidden (useful for large email attachments)
  • Folder renaming — rename folders to keep your documents organized
  • Batch operations — select all button for bulk actions

3-month data retention

Internal chat threads logs are now retained for 3 months. Agent documents and configurations are not affected. This doesn’t affect the user’s own chat threads, only the internal logs.
October 15, 2025
GPT-5 & Smarter Controls

GPT-5 support

GPT-5 is now available in Abundly. It works well for complex reasoning tasks, though it’s noticeably slower than Claude 4.5.

Smarter LLM controls

  • Thinking toggle — fully respected per chat, with per-call override when needed
  • Model switching — change models mid-conversation for flexibility
  • Larger responses — tool responses now support up to 400k characters

No more daily token limits

Removed the daily token limit — your daily credit limits already cover usage.
October 6, 2025
Phone Calling & Code Execution

Phone calling

Your agents can now make and receive phone calls:
  • Real-time voice conversations powered by OpenAI’s realtime API
  • Configurable phone numbers per agent
  • Call summaries automatically generated at end of calls
  • Full agent capabilities available during calls
Find the new Make Phone Call and Receive Phone Call capabilities in your agent settings.

Enhanced code execution

  • Async support — code execution now supports async/await operations
  • Tool calling — agents can call any other tool from within code using callTool(name, params)
  • Code from documents — load and execute code from agent documents using codeDocumentId

Event codes

New event code system for fast sign-up to courses and events. Share simple access codes for streamlined onboarding.
September 19, 2025
Data Documents

Data Documents

Agents can now use documents as structured databases with MongoDB-style operations:
  • Query, insert, update, and delete data items within agent documents
  • Filters include $in, $nin, $ne, $gt, $gte, $lt, $lte, $exists, $regex
  • Automatic ID assignment for data items
  • New dataSchema field to describe the structure of document data
  • Dedicated “Data” tab in the document panel
React artifacts can access database functions: queryInDocumentData, insertIntoDocumentData, updateDocumentData, deleteFromDocumentData

Enhanced React artifacts

  • Charts now work properly in React artifacts
  • Added support for common React hooks
  • More robust error handling — failed React apps no longer block Abundly
September 15, 2025
Microsoft Integration & SMS

Microsoft integration

  • SharePoint — access and manage SharePoint documents and libraries
  • Outlook — enhanced email capabilities with CC support
SharePoint and Outlook are available on request — contact Abundly to enable.

SMS messaging

Agents can now send and receive SMS text messages with configurable phone numbers.

Agent activity logging

New comprehensive agent log with real-time event tracking:
  • Tool call monitoring with detailed execution information
  • Better debugging capabilities for agent behavior analysis
  • Find it in the “Diary & Approvals” section

React artifacts enhanced

  • loadAgentDocument — React components can now access agent documents as data
  • updateAgentDocument — React artifacts can modify agent documents
September 1, 2025
API Access Keys & Model Selection

Agent API access keys

Give external systems programmatic access to your agents:
  • Generate secure API keys (similar to OpenAI or Anthropic keys)
  • Build custom UIs using tools like Lovable
  • Integrate agents into external workflows
  • Manage multiple access keys per agent
Find it in Agent Settings → API Access.

LLM model selection

Choose the right model for your agent:
ModelBest for
Claude 4 SonnetAll-round performance (default)
Claude 4.1 OpusComplex reasoning (expensive)
Claude 3.5 HaikuSimple tasks (fast & cheap)
Find it in Agent Settings → Advanced.

Thinking mode toggle

Thinking mode is now enabled by default for better reasoning. Disable it for simple tasks where extra thinking tokens aren’t worth the cost.
August 28, 2025
Activity Tracking & Document Improvements

User activity tracking

New admin analytics for understanding team usage:
  • Tracks meaningful user actions: chat activities, agent management, document operations
  • Page navigation tracking with smart categorization
  • View in Admin UI: Usage → User Activity

Token-efficient document saving

Improved handling of large documents in chat — better performance when working with substantial content.

Google Calendar improvements

Enhanced Google Calendar integration with improved authentication and more reliable operations.
August 25, 2025
Claude Thinking Mode & Personal Auth

Claude thinking mode

Claude can now show its reasoning process with interactive thinking blocks:
  • See how Claude works through problems
  • Collapsible thinking sections
  • Real-time streaming of thought processes

1 million token support

Claude now supports massive context windows — perfect for processing large documents and complex workflows.

Personal authentication tokens

Connect your personal Google accounts:
  • Personal Google Drive access
  • Personal Gmail integration
  • Personal Google Calendar

Large file uploads

Handle files larger than 32MB with direct transcription service integration.
August 12, 2025
Google Calendar & Credit Limits

Google Calendar integration

Connect your agents with Google Calendar for scheduling and event management.

Customer-level credit limits

Agents can now have daily credit limits set by customer admins:
  • New usage limits section in agent settings
  • Progress indicators and status badges
  • Inheritance from customer default limits

CSV export for usage data

Export usage analytics to CSV files from the Usage page.

Better copy/paste from artifacts

Fixed background color issues when copying from artifacts to Google Docs.
July 11, 2025
Diary Calendar & Batch Documents

Diary calendar view

Visualize your agent’s activity history with a beautiful calendar interface:
  • Day view with activity indicators
  • Today button for quick navigation
  • Cleaner diary interface with better organization

Batch document operations

Move multiple documents to folders simultaneously with improved folder navigation.

Improvements

  • Auto-scroll to bottom of chat when opening
  • Better error messages for tool credentials
  • All customers and agents sorted by name by default
June 29, 2025
Canvas Always Available

Canvas always available

Canvas (artifacts) is no longer a toggleable capability — it’s always available in chat.

Smarter agents

Agents now better understand the current date, their capabilities, and their email address.
June 27, 2025
Walk & Talk Mode

Walk & Talk mode

Renamed “Voice Mode” to “Walk & Talk mode” with a new icon and bigger, easier-to-tap microphone button.
June 25, 2025
Deep Research & Document Publishing

Deep Research

Comprehensive research capability powered by Perplexity’s deep research model:
  • Expert-level research with exhaustive searches
  • Generates comprehensive reports
  • Asks clarifying questions before diving deep
Deep Research is thorough but expensive — a single research session can cost 300+ credits.

Document publishing

Make any agent document publicly accessible:
  • Save artifacts as agent documents, then publish
  • Works for React apps, HTML, and Mermaid diagrams
  • Anyone with the link can view the published document
New search models from Perplexity:
ModelBest for
sonarQuick, cost-effective searches
sonar-proComplex queries and follow-ups
sonar-reasoningFast real-time problem-solving
sonar-reasoning-proDeep reasoning with Chain of Thought
New parameters: search_recency_filter (hour/day/week/month), search_mode (academic/web), search_domain_filter.
June 19, 2025
Prompt Caching & Version Control

Prompt caching

Up to 90% cost reduction for repeated interactions with the same agent. Token costs are dramatically reduced when you have ongoing conversations.

Enhanced version control

  • Approve/reject workflows — review and control specific changes in document versions
  • Visual diff viewer — collapsible unchanged regions with better styling
  • Version timeline — beautiful interface for navigating document history
  • Bulk actions — “Approve all changes” and “Undo all changes” buttons

Chat length warnings

Helpful warnings when chats get too long, helping you maintain optimal performance.

Account enforcement

Customers without credits or active subscriptions will see clear messaging and can no longer use agents until resolved.
June 12, 2025
Multichat & Artifact Editing

Multichat

Multiple people can chat with the same agent in the same thread at the same time — perfect for classrooms or onboarding sessions.

Collaborative artifact editing

You and your agent can now collaboratively edit artifacts:
  • Edit artifacts directly in the chat interface
  • Changes automatically included in your next message
  • Track changes with version navigation
  • Revert edits when needed

Rich text editing

Enhanced markdown editor with better formatting and real-time preview for documents, instructions, and artifacts.

Coupon codes

Create coupon codes for a class and share via public URL for easy sign-ups.Agents can create direct links to documents that open in side panels for seamless viewing.
May 26, 2025
Abundly Rebrand & Security

Welcome to Abundly

We’ve rebranded with updated logos and a fresh look throughout the platform.

Enterprise billing

  • Enterprise plan option with dedicated support
  • Promotion codes in subscription checkout
  • Manual billing option for enterprise customers

Security enhancements

  • Application-level encryption for secrets and API keys
  • New secret management UI for integration credentials
  • reCAPTCHA protection on signup

Improvements

  • Document version history increased from 10 to 100 versions
  • Enhanced web scraping with improved Firecrawl tool
  • Better Slack message threading
May 16, 2025
Agent Tagging

Agent tagging

New clickable tag system makes it easier to categorize and filter agents.

Simplified agent editing

Users with “Edit” access can now modify agent names and profile pictures — dedicated renaming section in settings.
May 14, 2025
Tool Approval & Document Folders

Tool approval system

New approval system for safer agent interactions:
  • In-chat approval UI for reviewing and controlling tool actions
  • Enhanced approval workflows for HTTP requests and email sending

Document folders

Organize agent documents with folders and subfolders.

Memory capability

Agents can now save and retrieve related memories for better context over time.

Notion integration

Connect your agents with Notion databases.

Credits system

New credit system for tracking and managing resource usage with automatic allocation for paid subscriptions.