Teams, a smarter mentions box, channel groups, and 3D Secure billing

This release adds reusable Teams of people and specialists you can attach to channels and projects, channel groups to tidy up your sidebar, a much smarter mentions search, inline diff previews for pasted GitHub pull request links, the ability to message yourself, and full support for bank 3D Secure card challenges when you pay. A long batch of chat, workflow, and settings polish lands alongside.

Build reusable Teams of people and specialists

You can now create Teams that bundle workspace members and specialists together, then attach a Team to a channel or a project instead of adding everyone one at a time. Create and manage Teams from the Specialists sidebar, and pick them anywhere you’d normally add members or specialists — channel settings, channel participants, and project configuration.

Teams stay live: when you change who’s on a Team, every channel and project that uses it picks up the new membership automatically, so you don’t have to revisit each one. New chats created under a project inherit the project’s Team, and removing a Team from a channel or project cleanly drops only the Team-derived members — anyone you added by hand stays.

Organize channels into collapsible groups

Channels can now be sorted into named, collapsible groups in the sidebar. Click the new group button in the channels header, name a group like “Engineering” or “Design”, and collapse or expand sections to keep long channel lists manageable. Groups are personal to you and persist between sessions, and you can still reorder ungrouped channels by dragging.

A smarter mentions box

Mentioning someone is faster and more forgiving. Search now matches anywhere in a name (not just the start), handles spaces so it stays open while you type a full name, and only closes when there are genuinely no matches. Mentions are highlighted right in the message box as you write, and pasting a message keeps its mentions intact.

Paste a GitHub pull request link, see the diff

When you paste a GitHub pull request link into chat, the link chip now offers a Show diff toggle. Expand it to view the full multi-file diff inline, with syntax highlighting and a file count in the header. Diffs load on demand when you open them, and very large diffs ask for confirmation before rendering so they never slow down the conversation.

Message yourself with self-DMs

You can now start a direct message with yourself — handy for personal notes, drafts, and scratchpad use. Your own name appears at the top of the New DM list with a “(you)” label, and self-DMs are clearly marked the same way in the sidebar. Regular DMs with other people are unchanged.

Accept workspace invites from the notification bell

Workspace invites in the notification bell now respond instantly. Accept or Decline flips the row to a clear “Joined” or “Declined” status the moment you click, so you can’t double-submit and you always know what happened. If an action fails, the buttons come back so you can retry, and accepting still works the same way from Settings.

Faster, clearer specialist creation

Creating a specialist is about three times faster — roughly fifty seconds instead of two and a half minutes — and the progress screen now tells you the truth. A smooth progress bar walks through four honest steps (generating the persona, drafting tasks, writing the overview, and finishing up) with details that update beneath each step, instead of freezing on round numbers. Personas also come back reliably tuned to your prompt rather than occasionally falling back to a generic default.

When a specialist suggests connecting a provider, picking one from its message card now jumps straight to the right provider to connect, restoring the one-click path.

Clear bank 3D Secure challenges when you pay

Payments that require your bank’s 3D Secure verification now present the challenge directly in the app — whether you’re subscribing, adding seats, topping up, or changing plans. If a verification fails, your billing history keeps the open invoice so you can retry the payment instead of getting stuck.

A fresh look for navigation and chat

The app chrome gets a polish pass: a reworked top bar with browser-style back and forward controls, a profile popover from your avatar with presence, away and notification toggles, and quick profile and preferences links, plus number-key shortcuts to jump between workspaces. Chat message rows, date separators, and specialist message cards are tidied up for a cleaner, more consistent transcript, and uploaded files now show file-type icons with the full filename on hover instead of a generic paperclip.

Kick off a specialist from any task

Adding a specialist to a task now starts the work the first time you open its channel — from the sidebar, the task dialog, or a direct link — without yanking you away from your board. You confirm the branch name once, the task moves to In Progress, and the specialist picks up exactly one kickoff when you arrive.

Workflows polish

Workflow icons are now consistent and meaningful across the section — sidebar headers, the attach-workflow dialog, status messages, and the node palette all use clearer glyphs. Importing an n8n workflow surfaces real parse errors and unmapped-node warnings instead of failing quietly, saving an empty workflow gives an actionable message, internal node type IDs no longer leak into the canvas, undoing after a workflow type change keeps your nodes, run history reads “1 run” instead of “1 runs”, and completed runs freeze their progress to the steps that actually ran.

Polish & fixes

Chat picks up a long list of refinements: message typography is unified, the workspace switcher badges count per channel, Browse channels is easier to find, only one “generating” indicator shows while a reply streams, reactions no longer flicker from stale updates, mentions render correctly in the translated-message view, copying and navigating to a message link works, you can copy a channel name from the list, the channel-created banner scrolls with the conversation, and thread composer text and scope are preserved while you type and when you switch layouts. Archived DMs can be re-created without an error, the DM list no longer auto-redirects without your say-so, and switching workspaces no longer leaves an overlapping sidebar. Several black-screen and background glitches in chat and workspace transitions are resolved, tooltips no longer hide under the title bar, multi-line messages render correctly, double-clicking the top bar maximizes the window, and command-center shortcut hints are correct on Windows and Linux.

Settings gets steadier too: profile changes save reliably and only confirm after they succeed, the GitHub token field shows when none is set, account deletion is clearly marked as coming soon, logging out asks for confirmation, webhook retries show a friendly message for non-admins, and model cards show clean model IDs. Tasks now show real display names and human-readable status and priority labels, stop showing phantom cards when a new-task dialog opens, and keep linked-project tabs in sync. Bedrock connections recover from expired tokens, browser navigation is restored on a reused view, per-workspace routes survive a workspace switch, and the feedback form keeps its Cancel and Submit buttons in view. Accessibility improves with labels added to voice input, project sub-navigation, and sidebar tooltips.