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October 7, 2026

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Feature releases

Vocion 5.0 — 5.0: an assistant for every person, apps per workspace, decide by reply in Slack or by text, autonomy set per action, a record of every run, and AWS-first self-hosting

September 25, 2026

8 posts

Feature releases

A software factory you run from a phone — the software-factory plugin — Products, Work, Releases; PM, Design, Eng, QA; gates at every handoff; run from a phone
The data-rooms plugin — the data-rooms plugin — one room per engagement, the collector that files after every sync, the Room keeper's daily mission
The proposals plugin — the proposals plugin — the Proposal Writer, the injected framework, the red team the export enforces, a proposal budget per agent
The wiki plugin — the wiki plugin at 1.3.0 — the researcher, the debrief on completion events, the wiki read as pages

Developer updates

Cards, not prose — a turn's cards persist on the row and replay as tool calls, never as a sentence to parse; the card is shown before it is filed
Deploys: 20 minutes to 6 — the image is built in CI and tagged by the core commit; the box pulls it; a workspace-only deploy went from 20 minutes to 6m27s
Quality control at the handoffs, without over-engineering — declared gates on object types — deterministic checks then a judge; return or escalate; the workspace turns the dials
What a week of Slate commits taught the factory — per-product reference sets — synthetic inputs, real shipped commits as gold, a 2/16 baseline that is the right starting number

September 19, 2026

4 postsVocion 2.123 →

Feature releases

The work comes first — the thing being decided is rendered as the thing it is, the decision is one control, and the reasoning is one fold away

Developer updates

A query that only ever saw the last hour — a constant that documents an intention is not a query that implements it, and a feature nobody has seen work is not shipped
The critic that ran out of room — why 'return STRICT JSON' is a request and a tool schema is a requirement, and what a 3000-token budget did to a dozen findings
Two deploys in one, and the forty-second gap — migrate before the swap, drain before the swap, prove the pin after it, and print a [deploy-receipt] line for every phase

September 16, 2026

12 postsVocion 2.82 →Vocion 2.88 →

Feature releases

Tag @artifact, and the turn owes you a document — @artifact makes "this turn produces a document" a contract on the request, with a backstop that guarantees one
Two more principles: build what the work demanded, and extend the core — the manifesto gains §18 and §19, and the pre-ship test grows from twelve questions to fifteen
Memory you can read, edit, scope and approve — typed, scoped, human-editable memory — and approval is still the only way a rule gets written
One list, and a Search you can read — four surfaces on one row component, and a Search page with a real filter row and a document you can open
Outbound copy has to pass your voice rules before anyone sees it — outbound copy is linted against workspace-authored voice rules before it can reach the review queue, and reviewer edits propose new rules
Record pages go full width, cards stop nesting, and the rail stops repeating the page — full-width record pages with an overlaying rail, an end to nested cards, and a rail that points at the page instead of repeating it
The briefing is a list of your decisions now, not a report on the agents — the brief is a typed document built around the decisions only you can make — budgeted, delta-aware, and unable to say "on track" without evidence

Developer updates

A failed hand-off that never reached you, because a framework reports a broken tool two different ways — two failure shapes from one framework, a trace node stuck at "start", and a hydrate that turned every failure into a success
The keyboard hint that renamed every button — a decorative <kbd> joined every decision button's accessible name, breaking screen readers and exact-name clicks at once
A sync that tells you what it did: honest caps, a real dedup key, and a crawl that reads the listing first — extraction gets honest about caps, dedup and what a sync actually did — listing-first crawl, scoped feed discovery, a real dry-run line
The memory model, and what the approval gate actually holds — one memory table behind a LangGraph store, scope in the key, a read-only mount — and where the gate is structural versus instructed
The prompt that produced the tells it forbade — why a voice guide produces the tells it bans, and what a schema refinement does that a better prompt cannot

September 15, 2026

34 postsRelease notes — 2026-09-15 →Release notes — 2026-09-15 (afternoon) →

Feature releases

A canvas beside the conversation — the tile-grid canvas — superseded the same day by a single live, versioned artifact
A sidebar you can hold in your head — reports and the developer page out of the work nav, related pages combined into tabs, all of it from one route registry
Agents now recommend a decision, and adoption measures whether you agreed — an agent states approve, reject or snooze on what it proposes, and adoption measures whether you agreed
“All conversations” now means all conversations — a real conversations list, a chat control that toggles both ways, and an icon-only autonomy rung
Ask about this brief, and do the thing it recommended — the conversation carries the page you are on, so asking about a selection or filing a recommendation is one tap
Vocion can mail you now, and the first thing it mails is the daily team report — the daily team report arrives as mail — what changed, what needs you, are we on track
Every action tells you what happened — the app's first notification surface, plus a pending state on every submit that never advances optimistically
Is the workforce earning its keep? — team report v2 — outcomes against targets, every number carrying its provenance, and the human time it took
The model upgrade test: run one role on two models and compare cost per completed job — run one role's dataset on two models and compare pass rate, tokens and cost per passed case
Needs you: every decision an agent is waiting on, answerable from a phone — every decision an agent is waiting on, as one list you can answer from a phone
One conversation surface on every page — the agent conversation is a rail beside every page, carrying the page you are on as context
One live artifact beside the conversation — the tile grid is replaced by a single live, versioned artifact you and the agent both edit in place
One place to decide — Review folds into Needs you — one queue, one detail screen, one set of verbs for every kind of decision
Review queue: failures you can see and retry, filters that count, and a real Regenerate — failures you can see and retry, filters that count, and a Regenerate that means it
Slack surface, phase 1, is merged: mention an agent, it replies in the thread — mention an agent in Slack and it replies in the thread
Team report: each team and member as an outcome contract, activity underneath as evidence — every team and member reads as an outcome contract, with its runs and spend as evidence
The composer never locks — type while the agent is thinking — Enter queues, the queue drains in order, ⌘⏎ interrupts
The inbox reads like a list of decisions, not a list of records — proposals described for a person and grouped per record, in a list you can scan
The review page, rebuilt — a review page that names what you are deciding and keeps the decision on screen

Developer updates

A mailbox per workspace: verify before you parse — an inbound webhook that verifies before it parses, threading by Message-ID, and an unknown sender that becomes an ask
A pattern library for list, detail and ledger — three dashboard archetypes, their anatomy, and the rule that new pages compose them
Artifacts as data, and an authenticated route — the artifact table, render_* tools, and why a default of public/artifacts was the wrong place to put authorization
A review decision proposes a learning candidate instead of writing a rule — a review decision queues a deduplicated candidate for the feedback classifier instead of writing a rule
Deploying an agent platform without losing the schema — dump-before-migrate with an abort, a post-migration schema check, a daily pin-bump PR, workspace dry-runs in CI, and a rollback runbook
Earned autonomy: an alignment ledger and a trust ladder — a decision_alignment ledger, a six-rung ladder per action kind, and thresholds a promotion cannot skip
Extraction leaves the agent loop: processors in the sync, a feed-aware web connector, a sources API — a knowledge source declares a processor that runs inside the sync, with its own budget and failure scope
One agent per workspace, and routing by delegation — no agent picker — a workspace lead, a derived delegation roster, and @-tags that route one turn
One conversation surface, and what streams through it — the typed AgentEvent union, the SSE route behind it, and how a dropped stream resumes
The Product Design Manifesto is in the repo, and it is the bar — seventeen principles and a twelve-question test a change must pass before it ships
The parameter Claude 5 will not take — and the fix that was worse than the bug — why a harness that sends temperature 400s on Claude 4.7+, and the two defects in the obvious fix
Two render environments, one import — a client-only function imported into a server component, a tab count that depended on which tab you were on, and a poll that retried a 400 forever
Why mid-turn steering is not possible yet — the checkpoint exists, the message shape blocks it, and the smallest thing that would unlock it
Workspace-aware links: a URL that means the same thing for everyone — why a cookie-scoped /dashboard URL breaks mailed links, and the /w/<slug>/… entry route that fixes it
A workspace spends its own key on the paid built-in tools — one definition of spendable decides whose key a paid built-in tool bills