Gaia 2.11 release highlights

Gaia 2.11 spans releases 2.11.0–2.11.28 and is the version where the platform became easier to connect, easier to teach, and more capable in day-to-day operations.

This cycle added new integration surfaces such as MCP channels and Codex runtime support, replaced static walkthroughs with live in-platform tutorials, expanded collaboration with Discuss and notifications, and introduced richer working outputs including artifacts, document folders, spreadsheet editing, and PDF attachments.

Major themes

• Integration foundations: MCP server channels, simplified MCP endpoints, stronger MCP transport reliability, expanded Anthropic compatibility, GitHub Copilot as a built-in agent, and OpenAI Codex runtime support.
• Guided adoption: a reorganized user guide, live in-platform tutorials, prompt templates, common fragment templates, a smarter Platform Assistant, and a new 11-chapter AI Engineer Handbook.
• Operational collaboration: Discuss at both project and platform level, topic watching, notifications, bulk conversation actions, cross-project task views, calendar support, and richer delivery discussions and status flows.
• Richer outputs and working context: end-to-end artifacts, PDF attachments, conversation storage attachments, document folders with OneDrive import and search, and interactive spreadsheet artifacts with import/export.
• Safer configuration and access: channel-level authentication, channel versioning and activation, stronger conversation access controls, project transfer between Gaia instances, and post-conversation steps for automated follow-up.
• Delivery, eval, and data workflow polish: tool-use grading, user simulator generation, error analysis improvements, richer entity query operators, better workflow run pagination, timeline enhancements, and Mermaid rendering inside conversations.

Notable additions

• Discuss + notifications give teams a shared operational layer for conversations around work, with topic watching and workflow/task-driven updates.
• Tutorials + handbook turn Gaia onboarding into a first-class product surface rather than a separate documentation exercise.
• Document folders make project knowledge easier to organize, search, share with agents, and use as scoped conversation context.
• Spreadsheet artifacts let teams create and edit structured outputs directly inside conversations instead of exporting to separate tools too early.
• Common fragment templates help teams bootstrap prompt instructions for artifact tools and diagram-based outputs faster.

Seen from 2.12

That direction is now easier to describe concretely.

Gaia 2.12 is turning the 2.11 foundations into a more governed automation layer: richer work surfaces through artifacts and document folders, more explicit process topology through workflow graphs, and a clearer operating model for orchestration, policy, oversight, and shared state.

Gaia 2.11 made the platform more connected, more teachable, and more operational. Gaia 2.12 turns those foundations into governed AI automation.