05/08/26 Release Notes (core)
Release date: 5th August 2026
New Features
AI Studio - Assistant Page
A new Assistant page has been added under AI Studio, available from the left-hand navigation menu below Agents.
From here you can interact with any agent available on the system and view your historical conversations with them, all from a single full-screen window rather than a compact panel.
Answers Agent
We've introduced a new Answers agent that can search the Patchworks product documentation and help you navigate directly to the area of the dashboard you need.
The agent has two core responsibilities:
Documentation search - answers your questions by searching Patchworks' product documentation, returning relevant content along with a citation link back to the source page
Dashboard navigation - helps you find and jump to the right area of the dashboard based on what you're trying to do, for example settings pages, API keys, or managed companies
Answers can be used directly, or called on by the main Assistant agent, so documentation and navigation help appears inline as part of a broader conversation without needing to switch agents. If the agent cannot help you , it will direct you to the live chat option.
Access follows the existing use ai-studio permission, so no additional configuration is required. Documentation content stays current automatically.
Flow Builder - Attachment Support
You can now attach files to a Flow Builder prompt, giving the agent additional context such as specifications, sample payloads, or screenshots.
Supported file types are PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, JSON and TXT, with a maximum size of 2 MB per file.
AI Studio - Token Usage Alerts
You can now configure email alerts that notify your users when AI Studio token usage approaches or exceeds your monthly allowance.
Alerts are created from Settings > Alerts, where Token Usage is available as an alert type:
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Set any custom threshold percentage per notification group - you are no longer limited to fixed values
Alert emails include the real-time usage percentage rather than a general "running low" message
A red indicator appears on the Agents page once usage exceeds 100%
Choosing "Don't notify" removes token usage alerts entirely
Current consumption and your notification preference are both visible from the Agents page:
Messaging has also been improved for overage scenarios, so where a monthly token limit is reduced below current usage, administrators now see accurate context rather than misleading text.
A notification group with at least one email address must be configured for alerts to be delivered.
De-Dupe - Atomic Mode
The De-Dupe shape now has an optional Atomic mode, for more reliable deduplication when the same data pool is used by multiple flows running at the same time.
With Atomic mode enabled, each value is checked and recorded in the data pool the moment it is encountered, rather than in bulk at the end of the step. This closes the timing gap that could allow duplicates through when multiple flows write to the same data pool concurrently.
Please note: Atomic mode writes to the data pool more frequently, so it is slightly slower than the default and can affect performance on high-volume flows. We recommend enabling it only where needed. It is disabled by default.
Improvements
Application UI Refresh
The application UI has been refreshed, focusing on the header and main menu. The main menu now supports a fixed open or closed state, rather than only opening on hover.
AI Studio - Platform Agents Redesign
The Platform Agents tab on the Agents page has been redesigned.
It now displays both current and upcoming agents, with the ability to start a conversation with one or more agents directly from the page. Agents you already have access to are marked as installed, and forthcoming agents are listed alongside them so you can see what's on the way.
Flow Builder - Guard Rails on Destructive Actions
Flow Builder now confirms its understanding with you before taking actions that would change or remove existing work:
Where an attachment and prompt together are interpreted as a request to build a flow, the agent will respond with its understanding and a proposal of what it intends to build, so you can confirm it has understood correctly before anything is created
Where the agent intends to build a new or different flow in the context of an existing flow, it will no longer remove steps from that existing flow without first asking for your approval
Event Connectors - Setup Flow
Setting up an event connector has been reworked into a guided flow, collecting connection details up front - name, description, host, port, protocol and authentication method.
Connector Builder - Required Field Validation
The authenticate step in the connector wizard now validates required fields before calling the API.
Previously, clicking "Test and connect" with missing auth details sent the request to the backend and returned an unclear error, making it hard to tell which fields needed completing. Empty endpoint URLs and required credential fields now show inline errors, with red borders and asterisks marking required labels. "Test and connect" and "Authorise" are blocked until required fields are completed. "Skip for now" is unchanged, and optional auth fields are unaffected.
Bug Fixes
Fix: Schema Data Path Retained After Schema Deletion
Resolved an issue where deleting a schema from a connector left the associated data path in place, even though it was no longer visible in the UI. The connector continued to apply the data path and did not return the full payload.
Fix: Fallback Transform Producing Double-Wrapped Output
Fixed map step output when using the Fallback transform with "wrap output in array" enabled. Map step formatting now checks whether the input was already wrapped before applying the setting, so a single object is no longer nested in an extra array layer and downstream steps receive the expected shape. Flows that already worked correctly are unaffected.
Fix: Error When Updating a Flow
Resolved an issue that could cause Flow Builder to throw an error when updating a flow.
Fix: Intermittent TikTok Authentication Failures
Fixed a bug in TikTok authentication that caused requests to fail where the request body exceeded a certain size.
For questions about this release, please contact the Patchworks support team or refer to the product documentation.
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