> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.xpander.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # July 2026 > Product updates released in July 2026. **2026-07-26** Introducing Omni: describe a business outcome, get an Agentic Application # New Product launch! **Introducing Omni:** Omni is your AI forward-deployed engineer: the place where you describe a business outcome and get back a working, agent-powered application. Instead of assembling an agent piece by piece, you tell Omni what you want your team to be able to do. Omni asks the clarifying questions it needs, designs the frontend experience, creates and configures the backend agent, connects the models, skills, tools, and data it needs, and reports back when the application is ready. Ask it "can you build me a Redshift Analyzer?" and it builds the whole thing. Two things make Omni different from a chat window. It brings its own computer: every agent gets a real cloud workspace with files, a browser, and a terminal, so it does the work rather than describing it. And it answers visually: instead of a wall of text, you get a Live Surface your team can open, share, and act on. **Agentic Applications:** The thing Omni builds. An Agentic Application pairs a backend agent (model, skills, tools, system prompt, data access) with a live frontend your team actually uses: chat to ask and iterate, Live Surfaces showing current state, reports, dashboards, and approval flows. Chat is useful for asking. Agentic Applications are useful for working. **A new app:** Omni lives in a ground-up rebuild of the xpander web experience at chat.xpander.ai. It is chat-first and canvas-based: conversations on the left, and a deck of cards on the right where tasks, Live Surfaces, agent settings, and workspace files open beside the conversation. The platform at platform.xpander.ai remains the control plane for governing everything you build. #### Try it now: [https://chat.xpander.ai](https://chat.xpander.ai) ## What's new: * **Omni, your AI forward-deployed engineer:** Every user gets a personal Omni agent. It finds the right agent for a job, delegates work to it, or does the work itself. It remembers you across conversations, and it can invite a teammate or ask you for a credential without leaving the chat. * **Build an agent by describing it:** Omni creates, configures, deploys, and schedules other agents from inside the conversation. A single evolving build card walks you through it, discovers your organization's real connectors and models, collects every account it needs behind one approval step, and lets you refine with "not quite right?" before the agent goes live. * **Live Surfaces:** Pin a file the agent generates and it becomes a living view your team can open at any time: a dashboard, a brief, an approval board, a status tracker. The agent keeps regenerating it on a schedule, on a webhook, or on demand. Surfaces render charts, tables, and interactive checkboxes, work in right-to-left languages, open full screen, and each one has a constant shareable link. You can ask the agent questions about a surface, or trigger it from one. * **Agent computer:** Each agent gets its own cloud workspace with files, a browser, and a terminal. Drag and drop a folder in, search and sort it, preview JSONL, PDF, and Markdown, and edit code in place. * **Materially faster:** A sustained push on time to first token, plus agent workspaces that prewarm on first interaction, cutting cold starts and creating a best-of-breed agentic experience. * **Share your work three ways:** Publish a single Live Surface as a public link, share a read-only conversation that teammates can branch and reply in, or publish the whole agent as a branded application with view, use, or edit access. Grant access to individual people, to user groups, to your whole organization, or to anyone with the link, and restrict an organizational Live Surface to just the groups that should see it. ![Acme IT policy at a glance surface with its sharing menu open: Visibility Org, Choose groups, Engineering ticked, Save, and the text changes to members of the selected groups can open this link](https://mintcdn.com/xpanderai-099931d1/OLVE_t2lWLfY5isq/images/changelog/2026-07-26-surface-share.gif?s=a29cad7817e5aae82bb7badbf271fb14) A Live Surface's sharing menu: limit an organization surface to the Engineering group and Save; the link now opens only for that group. * **Steer work while it runs:** Queue messages while the agent is working, stop a run, or steer a task mid-flight with a free-text nudge instead of killing it and starting over. * **Interactive cards in the conversation:** The agent asks clarifying questions, suggests tools and connectors, requests a secret through a secure card whose value never appears in the chat, or invites a teammate, and you answer inline. * **Task Manager:** One place to see every run across every agent, follow live progress, drill into a task, and stop something that is still going. Filter by agent, by who started it, or by where it came from (chat, Slack, webhook, or a schedule), and walk back through a timeline grouped by today, yesterday, last week, and older. * **Choose how the agent works on each message:** A mode picker in the composer sets the shape of the next reply. Instant for fast answers to direct questions, Auto to balance speed and depth, or Deep work to delegate long work and get a document back. The mode sticks to the conversation until you change it. * **Finished tasks become documents:** A completed task is no longer a status strip. It renders as a card with a title, the connectors it touched, an excerpt you can expand, any Live Surface it produced, and a footer with status, time, steps, and cost. * **Jump between runs from the top bar:** A Home / Agent / Thread breadcrumb sits in the navigation bar, and the last segment is a switcher across every run of that agent, including typed threads, inbound emails, scheduled work, and webhook triggers, with search and hover preview. ![Acme IT Ops conversation where the conversation name in the breadcrumb opens a run list, hovering a scheduled run shows its preview, lost is typed in search and Lost And Stolen Devices opens](https://mintcdn.com/xpanderai-099931d1/OLVE_t2lWLfY5isq/images/changelog/2026-07-26-run-switcher.gif?s=fe9896b51b150af146df3c4c7e9f9dfb) The breadcrumb's last segment lists the agent's runs: hover shows a preview, search finds a run, and a click opens it. * **Skills:** Give an agent a capability by wrapping a tool, an API, a connector operation, an MCP server, a custom action, a knowledge base, or another agent. Generate a new skill from a plain-English description, test it, and attach it. * **Triggers and schedules:** Give an agent its own email address, put it on a cron, or fire it from a webhook. Agents can also schedule their own follow-up work. * **A sidebar that keeps up:** Conversations sorted by last activity and grouped by day, live status dots on running work, inline rename, and quick-switch shortcuts for your pinned agents. * **Talk to your agents from your own code:** A public API drives the same multi-turn conversational loop the app uses, including message queueing, steering, and sub-task dispatch. Check the API reference at [https://docs.xpander.ai/api-reference](https://docs.xpander.ai/api-reference.md) * **Rich answers:** Mermaid diagrams, Vega-Lite charts, KaTeX math, syntax-highlighted code, and large CSVs render inline. Voice works in both directions, with dictation in and speech playback out. * **Enterprise controls:** Budgets per task, agent, user, and sub-organization with threshold alerts to email, Slack, or webhook. Plus audit logging with export, user groups, OIDC single sign-on, custom logo and accent color, and self-hosted environments that fall back to the xpander.ai cloud relay when your private environment is unreachable. * **Expanded model catalog:** As always, the xpander platform allows you to work with a huge model provider catalog. This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.