The AI Platform, channels, and a sharper workflow editor

The app you know is now The AI Platform. Alongside the new identity, you can browse and join channels from one place, mention them inline, send direct messages from a dedicated rail, and shape automations in a redesigned workflow editor. Specialists, settings, billing, and the in-app browser also pick up a long list of refinements.

Meet The AI Platform

The product is now The AI Platform across the app icon, login screen, settings, marketplace illustrations, sidebar, and supporting copy. The login screen has been simplified, picks up a refreshed background and logo, and now credits Zephyr Cloud as the platform powering everything underneath. Existing accounts, workspaces, and data carry over without any action on your part.

Find and mention channels in one place

You can now open Browse Channels to see every public channel in your workspace, preview membership, and join with one click. Channel membership is stricter so you only see what you have access to, and leaving or being removed cleans up your sidebar right away.

Inline #channel mentions are here too. Type # in the composer to autocomplete a channel name, mention a group, or pull teammates into a related conversation. The new workspace homepage gives you a single place to land when you open the app, and private channels you have rejoined show up where you expect them.

Direct messages get their own home

Direct messages now live in their own section of the sidebar, separate from channels. The message input stays pinned to the bottom of DM conversations so the composer never disappears as messages stream in, panel toggles that do not apply in DMs stay hidden, and links shared from teammates now expand into inline preview cards so you can see what was sent without leaving the conversation.

A redesigned workflow editor

The workflow editor has been rebuilt around a calmer canvas. A new center-view button reframes your graph, the configuration panel is narrower and slides in only when you need it, and edits to a node are tracked so you can tell when something is unsaved. Connection guards stop you from wiring nodes in ways that will not run, and workflows recover more cleanly from large payloads or unexpected interruptions.

Specialists and the marketplace

The marketplace now showcases The AI Platform’s managed specialists, and specialist drafts have moved to their own dedicated page so they are easier to find and finish. You can customize any specialist directly from a chat in one click, and a new PlanetScale specialist joins the lineup with deep database knowledge built in.

Specialists also collaborate more carefully. Sub-specialists can be spawned for focused subtasks, delegation between specialists respects clearer boundaries, and an AI Efficiency Coach is available to help you get more out of your team. A new context graph capability and tighter links to your knowledge garden help specialists ground answers in your own material.

Day-to-day specialist use is smoother as well. Missing icons are restored, tabs on specialist pages reflow on small screens, persona text waits to save until you stop typing, embedded browser previews no longer overlap configuration, and duplicated specialist rows in lists have been cleaned up. Stale tasks recover on their own, the customize-from-chat surface is more discoverable, and human-only channels stay free of specialist threading.

Knowledge, files, and tools

Specialists can now pull content from web pages and PDFs at runtime, browse your project’s file tree, and recognize file paths as you paste them. Attached files appear with richer thumbnails and tiles in chat, a redesigned attach-files modal makes picking content faster, and a new open-in-browser-or-code-panel tool routes results to the right surface. Local project seeding from your virtual file system is cleaner, and tool input and output are easier to scan when a specialist explains what it did.

Tasks

Tasks created from a project now use the project name as the channel title and let you edit it. Creating a project task opens its detail dialog so you can finish filling it in immediately, the task page has been refreshed, and a previous issue where attached tasks could reappear unexpectedly has been resolved.

Chat polish

Message actions across the chat surface now share one consistent control set, and you can attach tasks to a message so a specialist has the right context for that turn. Channel mentions route to the right recipients more reliably, model overrides are easier to set and read on a message, and active channels keep more of their recent history loaded. Archiving or restoring a channel routes you cleanly into or out of it, channels in the sidebar now sort alphabetically, and dropdown hover states are readable in dark mode.

Browser

The in-app browser now keeps a separate profile per project so sessions, cookies, and signed-in accounts do not bleed between unrelated work. If you prefer the old behavior, you can opt back into a shared profile from settings. Popped-out browser windows now respect a Chrome-parity minimum size and show a helpful tooltip explaining the popout control.

Settings, billing, and auth

Personal settings get a redesigned profile card and page, and you can now set your preferred date and time formats. Provider configuration has been redesigned for clarity, connections and integrations have a cleaner structure, and workspace names stay fresh in the workspace switcher. The login screen drops the QR-code option in favor of a simpler primary flow, the OpenRouter key paste step is more forgiving, and the sign-in callback now works on machines that only listen on IPv6. Token refreshes happen ahead of expiry so signed-in actions hesitate less often.

Billing has been streamlined too. Subscription management is coupon-aware, credits are tracked per seat purchased, and the path to manage your plan from inside the app is more direct.

Stability and reach

Notifications now stay in sync across all of your signed-in devices, so dismissing one no longer leaves it lingering on another. Windows installs are more reliable thanks to a packaged installer and bundled runtime, and the updater can be configured to install on a schedule that suits you. Voice transcription shows a friendly message when a network or VPN blocks the service instead of failing silently, and a refreshed keyboard shortcuts reference panel is now one keypress away.

Polish & fixes

Display names now stay correct as you save, sync, and switch contexts, and the people picker reflects them everywhere. The workspace rail has updated icons and unread badges anchored where you can see them, project icons can be edited, and theme changes apply instantly across the whole app without a reload. The benchmark judge now follows your selected execution model, orchestrator lanes clear themselves when a turn times out, and the canonical model catalog has been refreshed alongside a new media provider suite. In-app feedback has its own dedicated flow, the app shell and sidebar feel calmer with refined chrome, the website picks up a new blog and a refreshed brand, footer, header, and changelog detail layout, and a number of smaller stability and security improvements are bundled in throughout.