Agent planning & enforcement, self-hosted API/Controller support, activity timeline upgrades
New Features:
- Agent planning and enforcement: Added deep planning capabilities with execution plans, plan updates, enforcement controls, and an ask-for-information flow to gate execution until required details are provided.
- Self-hosted API deployment support: Enabled running the xpander platform API as a self-hosted container, for increased data privacy. More details here: https://docs.xpander.ai/api-reference/rest-api
- Planning activities in Activity: The monitoring view in the Agent Workbench now shows a detailed view of the Planning steps that the agent took.
Improvements:
- Workbench planning configuration: Added consolidated UI controls for planning, reasoning toolkit toggles, and advanced tool-call configuration, including checklist enforcement. Agent planning and enforcement configuration is available under the Tools tab in the Agent workbench.
- Self-hosted Agent Controller integrations: Improved support for fetching activity logs and evaluations from remote/self-hosted Agent Controllers, with secure key syncing and cloud fallback.
- Execution plan visualization: Enhanced chat and activity views to render execution plans and live plan updates with clearer progress indicators.
- Operational reliability: Improved task/execution synchronization, thread syncing, and queue TTL handling; added automatic agent description generation when missing.
- Model catalog and defaults: Expanded OpenAI model catalog (including GPT-5.2) and added configurable reasoning effort controls.
Bug Fixes:
- MCP tooling fixes: Corrected MCP tool-selection modal behavior and hid unsupported selections for OAuth2.
- Agent execution stability: Enforced consistent inactive-agent handling.
- Various backend adn UI bug fixes and stability improvements.
Agent import/export, GPT 5.2 support, SalesForce Hosted MCP, connection flow enhancements
New Features:
- Agent import/export with knowledge base content: Agents can now be exported and imported with optional inclusion of associated knowledge bases and document content. This is useful for promoting agents between sandbox and production accounts. Check out the Export/Import calls in the API reference: https://docs.xpander.ai/api-reference/v1/agents/export-agent
- Nano Banana image generation API: New tool: generate images via your agents with Google Nano Banana.
- Refactored “Create New Connection” flow: Introduced a new end-to-end UI for creating and editing connections with improved validation and support for multiple auth methods (API key, OAuth2, AWS services with SigV4).
- Expanded OpenAI model catalog: Added support for OpenAI GPT-5.2 (and additional GPT-5 family variants) in the model selection catalog.
- SalesForce Hosted MCP: With improvements in MCP and OAuth2 handling, SalesForce Hosted MCP is fully supported and tested.
Improvements:
- MCP and OAuth2 scope handling: Enhanced MCP deployment enablement and OAuth scope handling (including additional scopes and refresh-token support).
- Agent activity view refactor: Improved activity view reliability by migrating legacy sessions into threads on demand and adding a thread evaluation endpoint with caching.
- SDK and A2A tooling UX: Refined SDK/A2A UI surfaces (e.g., agent card handling, triggers actions, and MCP tool gating) for clarity and consistency.
Bug Fixes:
- Template and import route stability: Fixed agent template forward-reference issues and stabilized the template import route behavior.
- UI fixes: Fixed access scope rendering issues and corrected UI styling/behavior in MCP-related modals and built-in tools.
Advanced Reasoning, Agent Activity revamp, Multi-Framework Support, Tool Call Compression, More LLMs
New Features:
- Advanced Reasoning Tools: Added toggles for Advanced Reasoning tools , enabling agents to use think and analyze capabilities for improved planning and decision-making between tool calls. This feature greatly improves agent performance and it’s highly recommended to try it. Enable the Advanced Reasoning tools under the Tools tab in the AI Workbench.
- End-to-end OAuth2 Experience in Remote MCPs: Use OAuth2 to authorize users against Remote/Hosted MCP Servers via any invocation endpoint. See the feature demo here: https://xpander.ai/demo-videos/end-to-end-auth-with-mcp-and-oauth2/
- Agentic Memory and Culture Management: Introduced explicit toggles for agent-managed memory and culture with consolidated settings UI, allowing fine-grained control over agent persistence behavior and memory management. Agentic Culture allows agents to learn from their previous experiences.
- Revamped Agent Activity view: Now with comprehensive activity tracking with thread-based activity records, exposing task conversations, tool calls, reasoning steps, sub-agent triggers, and authentication events.
- Tool Calls Compression: Added configurable tool call compression settings to reduce verbose tool outputs and improve token efficiency, with customizable threshold and compression instructions for better context management.
- Reasoning UI Display: Added visual representation of agent reasoning in the chat UI, displaying Think/Analyze events with title and description for improved transparency into agent decision-making.
- Expanded LLM Provider Support:
- Integrated Google AI Studio (Gemini) with support for various Gemini models.
- Added Helicone and OpenRouter for a much wider selection of models to drive your agents.
- Added Nebius Token Factory support with aggregated models including Meta Llama, NVIDIA Nemotron, Qwen, DeepSeek, and more.
- Searchable LLM Model Selection: Enhanced the LLM selection dropdown with search and filtering capabilities to improve usability when choosing from the expanded model catalog.
- Multi-Framework Support: Enabled support for multiple agent frameworks including Strands Agents, OpenAI Agents, Google ADK, and LangChain.
Improvements:
- Streaming Performance: Reduced streaming latency by pre-starting dual streams (SDK and worker) and optimizing Kubernetes metrics collection with non-blocking initialization and shared thread pool executor.
- Framework Settings UI: Improved framework name and icon display in agent settings for better visual clarity and user experience.
- User Profile Settings: Enhanced user settings modal with simplified structure and improved rendering behavior.
Bug Fixes:
- Chat Textarea Responsiveness: Fixed automatic height adjustment for chat text area in Chat UI, ensuring proper responsiveness across devices including iOS/Safari.
- Failed Task Status: Properly handle Failed status as terminal state and set finished_at timestamp to ensure accurate task completion tracking.
- Task Filtering: Extended task filters with triggering_agent_id parameter for improved debugging and task retrieval capabilities.