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# 2026-10-09

## New <Badge type="info" text="New" />

- **A Task Chats module in the main sidebar**: every task conversation you started — tasks assigned to Agents or Crews, quick actions, and conversations opened by an @ mention in a comment — now lives in one sidebar list. Each row shows the task (with its status and type glyphs) or the conversation title, the responsible Agent's avatar, and a second line with the current state, the newest message, and the activity time; clicking a row opens the task detail with that conversation. Conversations with fresh activity rise to the top, ones waiting on you carry a state marker, long-quiet ones fold into **More** at the end, hovering a row marks it done, and the module title collapses the whole list. Agent messages and waiting-for-reply / waiting-for-review hand-offs in task conversations no longer enter the Inbox — they surface here instead; desktop notifications and Slack reminders still go out (HF-13483).
- **A new-sync wizard with external accounts**: the project sync card on platform integrations gains **New sync**, a five-step wizard — configure, map statuses, map users, import options, confirm — and every sync link opens a unified detail page with **Sync settings / User mapping / Status mapping** tabs; changes must be saved, and leaving with unsaved changes asks first. When an import or sync meets a user on the source platform it cannot match to a member, Sharkly now keeps them as an **external account** — a source identity that owns their tasks — instead of leaving work unassigned. External accounts are managed under **People → External accounts**, where you can filter and search them and link them to Organization members; linking backfills the assignee on historical tasks (tasks edited by hand are left alone), unlinking restores the external identity, and the members list gains a **Linked accounts** column. Untouched users in the mapping step now default to **import as external account** (HF-13070).

## Improvements <Badge type="warning" text="Improvements" />

- **The chat input is plain text**: the chat composer no longer formats what you type — Markdown syntax, URLs, and pasted code stay exactly as you wrote them, with no auto-linking and no formatting menu. `@` mentions, `/` commands, `$` skills, and attachments work exactly as before, and pasting text copied from a rendered page keeps the link URLs instead of silently dropping them. Agent replies still render rich text, code, and media unchanged.
- **Task conversations can stop auto-opening**: Settings → Preferences gains a **Task conversations** group with two switches — auto-open after assigning and auto-open after using a quick action — both on by default; turning them off only stops the panel from opening by itself, the assignment or action still runs (HF-13528).
- **Run records show who triggered them**: each run now shows **Triggered by** — the human who set it in motion; runs handed over between Agents trace back to the person who started the chain, external-channel runs show the external account, and truly unattributable runs honestly say **System** (HF-13658).
- **Failure messages name the Runtime that failed**: when an Agent run fails, the message shows the actual Runtime that went wrong instead of a generic "Agent", making it easier to tell which layer broke (HF-13650).
- **The Agent status is visible in the chat panel too**: the conversation panel header shows the same Agent status component as the task detail, opening straight to reply, view the run log, retry, or stop (HF-13653).
- **The Agents list inside a Space supports filter / search / pin**: matching **All Agents**, with pins shared — pinning in one place pins in both (HF-13647).
- **Docs is available to everyone**: the Docs library no longer sits behind an early-access switch (HF-13625).

## Fixes <Badge type="danger" text="Fixes" />

- **Updates and quitting are more reliable**: fixes the restart-after-update stuck on "Starting update…", the macOS Dock **Quit** not responding and leaving processes behind, and in-progress tasks not resuming after an automatic update (HF-13654, HF-13605, HF-13645).
- **Opening the Windows app no longer drags the whole machine down**: fixes the local-service startup probe spawning large numbers of child processes and exhausting memory on Windows (HF-13627).
- **Long Windows paths no longer break developer tools**: Agent workspace directories are shorter, staying under the Windows 260-character path limit (HF-13445).
- **Codex / Claude / ZCode CLIs could not start**: fixes the three embedded adapters crashing at startup due to their packaging format, which kept tasks from ever starting (HF-13462).
- **Crew @ mentions no longer drop occasionally**: fixes a Crew leader @ mentioning a member in a task conversation sometimes not firing and needing a manual follow-up message; when the other side is busy the run is queued and retried, and failures are reported clearly (HF-13667).
- **The task composer no longer claims the Agent is offline**: the offline warning no longer appears while the Agent is actually online (HF-13344).
- **A shared computer's settings page recovers**: fixes the computer settings page showing an already-shared local machine as "identity pending" and blocking access to its settings (HF-13632).
- **A failed managed-CLI check no longer reinstalls**: when an installed CLI fails detection, the page reports "Detection failed" with a **Re-check** action instead of silently reinstalling, and error text is no longer garbled (HF-13626).
- **Imports and syncs follow the intranet proxy computer**: fixes some new-sync, mapping, and history-import requests for intranet Jira instances not going through the configured proxy computer, which made loading or importing fail (HF-13395).
- **Unordered-list bullets no longer render as garbled glyphs** (HF-13663).
- **Interface details**: the Inbox search field no longer jumps when expanding and gains a one-click clear button (HF-13686); the task detail loading skeleton is simpler (HF-13648); @ candidate rows prioritize showing the Agent name (HF-13638) and the hover card no longer hides behind the list (HF-13685); the delete button hides when only one working directory remains (HF-13211).