New features
Quoted replies and draft translation
- Quote a visitor’s message when replying, then jump back to the original from the quote.
- Translate your draft into one of 13 languages from the button beside Send. Review the translation before sending.
Bug fixes
Chat history and drafts stay put
- Chat history stays visible as messages arrive, instead of disappearing behind an older-messages group.
- Fixed reply flicker and delayed send acknowledgements clearing your next draft.
- New team replies preserve the visitor’s reading position. At the bottom, quoted replies stay fully visible.
- Plain HTTPS links in team replies are now clickable.
Improvements
Smoother live conversations
- Replies appear immediately while delivery finishes, and active visitors receive them without an artificial undo delay.
- Incoming messages preserve your reading position in the inbox, with a Jump to latest shortcut when you are ready.
- Draft translation now uses a compact language selector beside Send, with keyboard controls and a layout that fits smaller screens.
Updates
Claude Haiku 5.5 as the default agent model
- Claude Haiku 5.5 is the new default agent model.
- Automatic context limits and Anthropic prompt caching support longer conversations while keeping saved chat history intact.
Polish
Consistent buttons and quieter billing notices
- Buttons across the dashboard now share the same sizes, so rows and toolbars line up.
- A cancelled plan sends one notice, not repeats.
- The inbox and the dashboard agree on every conversation’s state.
Inbox
Ticket mode for the inbox
- Turn any inbox into ticket mode. Every conversation gets a status, a priority and an owner, so your team works it like a queue.
- Each agent can now have its own support channels, so one workspace can run several brands.
- Read markers stay in step for everyone working the same inbox.
- The inbox header and chat list fit small screens without clipping.
- Widget settings tabs scroll cleanly, and a widget styling glitch is fixed.
- Owners and admins of a workspace can now manage agents that are shared into it.
Analytics
Steadier analytics and safer learning
- If one analytics panel can’t load, the rest of the page still shows its numbers.
- Analytics for shared agents load reliably.
- Visitor emails are saved the moment they are typed, even if the visitor leaves straight away.
- Your agent never learns from sign-in or password messages.
Chat
Public chat page and topic map
- A public chat page for your agent that you can link to from anywhere.
- A new topic map shows what your customers ask about most, at a glance.
Fixes
Inbox and team fixes
- Replies from the hello address now go back to the right person.
- Member access to agents saves reliably.
- Email attachments always stay with the conversation they belong to.
Team
Branded team invites
- Team invites carry your workspace name and logo.
Agents
A newer default model
- Agents now run on a newer default model, for sharper answers.
Inbox
The inbox on every screen
- The inbox works on phones and tablets as well as desktops.
- Attachments load reliably, and show as cards you can click to open.
- Close and reopen conversations with clear success and error messages.
- A real General settings page, with Team settings focused on team access.
- New labels get their own distinct colors.
- Cited snippets read cleanly, without cut words or stray formatting.
- Your agent is less likely to guess when your knowledge has nothing on the question.
- The support widget always answers as the agent it belongs to.
Inbox
Email attachments in the inbox
- Files attached to inbound emails now arrive in the inbox with the message.
Knowledge
Real indexing progress
- Website sources show real indexing progress while they build.
- Image-heavy pages index faster and take up less room.
Inbox
Close conversations freely
- Closing a conversation is no longer blocked by an open support request.
Inbox
Support requests
- A customer message can open a support request that your team tracks until it is done.
- Analytics numbers are correct for brand-new agents.
Analytics
New agent analytics
- Agent analytics, rebuilt: conversation volume, resolution, topics and sentiment in one place.
- Jump from an agent’s analytics to workspace analytics from the sidebar.
Widget
- Quick answers in the widget are no longer cut off, and you can add your own links to them.
- When someone shares an agent with you, choose which of your workspaces it lands in.
- Shared agents stay visible in your list, and the inbox keeps working.
- One clear sharing link per person, with no duplicates.
Agents
Share agents across workspaces
- Share an agent with another workspace, securely, without copying it.
- Agent settings now look and work like workspace settings.
Agents
Agents that stay on topic
- Agents stay on the topic of your product, even several messages into a chat, and politely decline unrelated requests.
- Agents point people to your product instead of trying to do its job for them.
- Inbound emails are kept even when the AI cannot reply, and agent replies show up in the inbox again.
- Team and privacy settings are reorganized so each lives in one clear place.
Notifications
More reliable push notifications
- Push notifications arrive more reliably, and failed ones are easier to track down.
Team
Team notifications
- Teammates get notified about the conversations they care about, in the app and by push.
Knowledge
No more stuck website sources
- Website sources no longer get stuck while indexing.
Actions
Recoverable calendar connections
- If a Calendly connection fails, you see why and can reconnect in a click.
- The widget’s “seen” marker shows only when your reply was really seen.
Inbox
Clear, reversible inbox controls
- Inbox controls for closing and reopening conversations are clearer, and can be undone.
Inbox
Every message accounted for
- Messages are delivered and tracked more reliably.
Actions
Calendar actions and an installable app
- Connect Cal.com or Calendly and let your agent book meetings in the chat.
- Set up each integration’s options, with safe defaults.
- Install Communicate as an app on your desktop or phone.
- The inbox opens straight to the right conversation on first load.
- A conversation stays with the AI until a teammate takes it over.
- Follow-up suggestions stay put when the chat updates live.
- Default starter questions appear when you haven’t set your own.
- Copy and email errors are shown instead of failing silently.
- A new logo that adapts to light and dark mode.
Chat
Follow-up suggestions and visitor email capture
- Follow-up suggestions appear under each answer, so visitors know what to ask next.
- Visitors can leave their email so you can reply later.
- The full-page chat widget is now available to every workspace.
- Connect a custom domain with one-click DNS setup.
- Hosted chat pages can appear in search results.
- Answers cite the page they came from, and accuracy is improved.
- Website sources find pages that are hidden in menus or linked only by images.
- Email replies from your agent are clearer and more accurate.
- Your brand mark adapts to light and dark themes.
Chat
Live certificate status for custom domains
- See your custom domain’s certificate status live, and exactly which record it is waiting for.
- Website crawling is sturdier, and knowledge is easier to trace back to the page it came from.
Chat
Hosted chat page and custom domains
- Hosted chat pages at
chat.communicate.so/@yourname, now in beta. - Serve your hosted chat page on your own domain.
- Workspace members can now work the inbox, not just owners.
Inbox
Instant thread switching
- Switching between conversations is instant.
- No more duplicate replies, and new messages scroll into view.
- Read receipts are accurate, and links to a conversation always open it.
- Smarter knowledge search, so answers find the right page more often.
- Repeat questions are answered faster.
Agents
Move and duplicate agents
- Move an agent to another workspace, or duplicate it, from its card menu.
Agents
Grill Me and a full email lifecycle
- Grill Me: short training rounds where you test your agent and correct its answers.
- Customers rate the conversation when it closes, and a reply reopens it.
- Rating emails carry your agent’s brand and lead to a designed feedback page.
- A daily summary email lands at 9 AM in your local time.
- Choose the sender name your customers see on each agent’s emails, and copy its support address in one click.
- See a visitor’s earlier conversations, in a more compact side panel.
- Email replies keep their formatting.
- Closing from the toolbar asks you to confirm first.
Knowledge
Learn from your team
- Your agent learns from how your team answers, with a review queue so nothing goes live unchecked.
- The AI stays quiet while a teammate is replying.
- Chat and email stay in one thread per customer, branded per agent.
- See each visitor’s browser, device, location and local time beside the conversation.
- Add a home link to your widget.
- Copy a whole chat from the conversation menu.
Team
Team invites and per-agent access
- Invite teammates by email and choose which agents each one can access.
- The inbox shows which agent each conversation belongs to.
- Adding a website you already added is blocked; recrawl it in place instead.
- In-app message previews match the real widget on every screen size.
In-app
In-app messages
- Send targeted messages to your users inside your own product, with templates to start from.
- See what a customer is typing before they send it.
- Read receipts in both directions, and open tracking for email replies.
- A refreshed dashboard design that fills the whole screen.
- Unread badges update live for each teammate.
- Toasts and tooltips across the app.
Knowledge
Remove single pages
- Remove a single page from a website source without deleting the whole source.
- Answers stay grounded in your knowledge.
Inbox
The inbox, rebuilt
- Triage, labels, contacts, attachments and an AI copilot that drafts replies for you.
- Mention a teammate in a note and they see their name, not a code.
Knowledge
Blog sources, teams and email replies
- Add your blog as a knowledge source.
- Leave out pages you don’t want with exclude patterns, or limit a crawl to one path.
- Escalations go to a team, and are shared out in turn.
- Visitors can get replies by email when you are offline.
- Unread badges and a notification sound for you and your visitors.
- The widget privacy banner hides itself after a few seconds.
- Website sources can crawl far more pages, and new agents start with a sensible default prompt.
- A redesigned Actions page.
Widget
- The widget greeting and starter questions follow your visitor’s language.
- Agents answer in your visitor’s language, and stay on your own site’s content.
Analytics
Live counters and clearer answers
- Analytics and usage numbers count up as they load.
- Questions like “what’s the date?” get a direct answer.
- Sidebar and widget controls are easier to tap.
Design
A new dashboard
- A redesigned dashboard and agent pages.
- Analytics charts you can hover and explore, on any screen size.
- The inbox stays steady while conversations update live.
Polish
Accessibility and crawl fixes
- Accessibility fixes across the app, including keyboard focus in the inbox and support for reduced motion.
- Large website crawls no longer time out.
- Two workspaces with the same name no longer clash.
Polish
Inbox and widget fixes
- A batch of fixes across the inbox, the widget and analytics.
CLI v0.1.5
Communicate CLI 0.1.5
- Install with
npm install -g @communicate_so/[email protected] (Node 22 or newer). - 213 named commands. Run
communicate --help to see every command and whether it is supported. - Inbox: tickets, internal notes, labels, reply retry, attachments (upload, confirm, read), copilot suggestions and live support requests.
- Contacts: create, search and manage contact profiles.
- Agents: saved replies, automation rules, support settings and signatures, HTTP actions, agent access, logo fetch, single-page source removal and preview chat.
- Shared agents: manage them, work their conversations, and use their copilot, attachments and analytics.
- Workspace: labels, custom domains, webhooks, and the support request lifecycle with SLA commands.
- Read agent, workspace and in-app analytics, read billing, and read or update account preferences.
- Every safe workspace action an account key can reach is now listed, and each command is also an MCP tool with the same scope.
API
Account preferences, notes and new scopes
- Read and save account preferences with an account key.
- Internal notes, and inbox, agent, workspace and support operations, each guarded by a single scope.
- New
analytics:read and billing:read scopes for account keys. - Shared agents and agent access, reachable through the API.
API
Contacts directory and read markers
- Create, list, search and delete contacts. Deleting a contact keeps its conversation history.
- Mark an inbox conversation as read with
communicate inbox mark-read or the matching MCP tool. Only your own read marker moves. - Read-only MCP sessions never see write tools.
CLI v0.1.4
Communicate CLI 0.1.4 and MCP write tools
- 94 API operations, 92 named CLI commands and 90 scoped MCP tools.
- MCP can now make changes, not just read, within the scopes your key allows.
- Ticket inbox: list, count and read threads, update routing and status, and send, undo or edit replies.
- Read and edit contact profiles from the API, the CLI and MCP.
- New commands for actions, scheduling, outbound drafts, in-app campaigns and notification settings.
- Signing in to the CLI works first time, and saving a new API key is simpler.
CLI v0.1.3
Communicate CLI 0.1.3
- The npm package page shows the current brand and a full getting-started guide.
CLI v0.1.0
Communicate CLI 0.1.0
- First release of the Communicate CLI: run your workspace from the terminal with
communicate. - Account API keys with scopes, so each key can only do what you allow.
- Manage your account, workspaces, members and teams, agents and sources, learning and Grill Me rounds, and your notifications.
- Secrets are shown once and never echoed again, and changes are never retried automatically.
MCP
Remote MCP server
- Connect AI tools to Communicate over MCP at
https://app.communicate.so/mcp. - Sign in with OAuth. Tokens are short-lived and work only for MCP.
- First tool:
communicate_list_agents, read-only and limited to your workspace. - Discovery metadata is published, so MCP clients can find how to sign in on their own.
OAuth
Scoped OAuth for the public API
- An API key works as an OAuth client: its ID is the client ID and the key is the client secret.
- Access tokens last one hour.
- Set
agents:read and chat:write limits on each key. - Revoking a key, or narrowing its scopes, takes effect on the very next token request.
API v1.2.0
Public API 1.2.0
- A published API contract with an OpenAPI document.
- Every error, including unknown routes, returns machine-readable JSON with a clear code and message.
- Rate-limit headers are documented and returned on every response.
- A read-only MCP server for the developer docs.