# Gaia 2.11 release highlights

> MCP channels, guided tutorials, discussions and notifications, artifacts, document folders, spreadsheets, and a much stronger documentation layer.

## Metadata

- Published: 2026-03-08
- Author: Gaia team
- Post type: release
- Tags: release, integrations, collaboration, artifacts, documentation

# 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.**