What’s new in Monad

This week we’re giving your digital coworkers better memory, the ability to learn new procedures on the fly, and a way to improve their own performance based on how you interact with them.

Agent skills

You can now attach reusable modules of knowledge and procedures to any agent. Instead of writing long, repetitive instructions for every agent, you can define skills once and let your agents load them when they need them.

• Procedural playbooks — Define "how we file a bug" or "our brand voice" as a skill shared across your team.
• On-demand activation — Agents only load the full text of a skill when it becomes relevant, keeping their conversations focused and efficient.
• Workspace authored — Create your own skills in Settings → Skills to capture your team's unique domain knowledge.

Self-improving agents

Your agents now learn from your feedback. When you give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to an agent's response, Monad analyzes the gap between the actual response and what you expected.

• Instruction refinement — The system periodically optimizes an agent's internal instructions to improve its accuracy.
• Safety first — Every proposed improvement is measured against a history of your past feedback to ensure there are no regressions before it goes live.
• Transparency — You can review, approve, or revert any auto-generated instruction changes in the Agent Optimization dashboard.

Agents now dream

To keep your long-term conversations coherent, agents now perform a nightly memory consolidation pass. We call this "dreaming."

• Coherent history — Agents deduplicate, merge, and prune their stored memories overnight, resolving contradictions and tidying up stale facts.
• Contextual relevance — By tidying their own notes while you sleep, agents stay focused on what matters most to your team during the day.

Virtual model tiers

We’ve introduced three virtual model tiers—Frontier, Balanced, and Cost-effective—to give you more control over the balance between intelligence and cost.

• Frontier — The most capable models for complex reasoning and creative tasks.
• Balanced — A blend of speed and intelligence for your everyday workflows.
• Cost-effective — Fast, lightweight models for high-volume tasks like basic summarization.

Improvements

• Admin identity — Team admins can now access a new platform portal with support for federated identity (OIDC).
• Onboarding polish — A smoother setup experience with better message tracking and clearer navigation.
• Legal suite — Completely updated Privacy, Terms, and Data Processing policies grounded in our commitment to transparency.
• Refined feedback — Better UI for rating agent responses and seeing the impact on their instructions.

Fixes

• Browser reliability — Fixed an authentication loop that affected some Safari users.
• Integration reliability — Resolved an issue where some third-party tools would fail to load on high-performance models.
• UI Polish — Fixed sidebar flickering and tooltip overlapping issues during heavy message activity.

A packed end-of-week push: fix your messages after you send them, take Monad with you on iPhone, and find anything across your entire workspace.

Edit messages and comments

Sent something with a typo — or just changed your mind? You can now edit your messages for up to 24 hours after posting. The edit opens right in place, pre-filled with what you wrote.

• Change the text, swap out attachments, update mentions — the full composer, in the message.
• Press Esc or click Cancel to back out without saving.
• An "Edited" label appears once you save, visible to everyone live — no refresh needed.
• Editing works the same way on canvas document comments and task comments: open the menu, choose Edit, and save.
• If you add a new mention in an edit, those people get notified — but people already mentioned aren't pinged again.

Monad is on iPhone and iPad

Download Monad from the App Store and you get the full web experience wrapped in a native shell — push notifications, deep links from emails and messages, and an offline screen when you lose signal.

Search everything

Search now reaches across every canvas database, board, and task in your workspace — not just messages and documents.

• Find a row in a database, a card on a board, or a task by name, description, or any text it contains.
• Type # in the composer to pull up board suggestions for the current space, prefetched so they appear immediately.

Canvas database headers

Every canvas database now has an editable header: set a name, pick an icon, and write a short description. Changes stream live to everyone viewing the database — no refresh required.

MCP tool control

If your workspace connects to external MCP servers, you can now disable individual tools without disconnecting the whole server. Toggle a tool off in MCP server settings and it disappears from every agent that uses that server — instantly, mid-run included.

macOS desktop: push notifications

The macOS desktop app now supports push notifications via Apple Push Notifications. Turn them on from notification settings, and your unread badge updates in the background even when the window is closed.

Improvements

• Canvas icon and cover changes stream live to everyone viewing the canvas — the tab bar and page header stay in sync automatically.
• The agent session viewer now collapses older tool-call rounds so you can focus on what's happening now, and tool-call steps in the current round are collapsed by default.
• Agents can seed initial content into canvas documents when they create them.
• The Agents section in the sidebar is now collapsed by default to give your channels and DMs more room.
• Thread reply notifications now deep-link straight to the reply in context.
• Workspace logos appear in the desktop sign-in picker.

Fixes

• Fixed dead-clicks in the Activity feed when rows were still loading.
• Fixed a double border that appeared on canvas spreadsheet cells while editing.
• Group DM avatars now render a gradient fallback and legible initials.
• Monad no longer auto-opens the thread panel when an agent or user triggers a thread in a DM conversation.

A big week: a whole new way to react, a rebuilt feed for staying on top of what matters, more capable agents, and Monad on your home screen.

Custom emoji

Make the workspace yours. Upload your own emoji and use them anywhere you'd use a regular one — as reactions and right inside your messages.

• Type : to open a picker with 1,400+ built-in emoji plus everything your workspace has added, and search by name.
• Give an emoji more than one name with aliases.
• Drop in a jumbo emoji when one just isn't enough.
• Admins decide whether everyone can add emoji or just admins.

A redesigned Activity feed

Catching up should take seconds. The new Activity feed pulls your mentions, replies, direct messages, canvas updates and comments, and task activity into one place, grouped so a busy thread collapses to a single "new replies" row.

• Threads track where you left off, so you only see what's actually new.
• You're automatically following threads you start, reply to, or get mentioned in — no setup required.
• Snooze anything for later, and jump straight to your notification preferences from the new activity menu.
• Send yourself a test notification to confirm push is working, and toasts now match your light or dark theme.

Rate your agents

Every agent reply now has a thumbs up and thumbs down. Add a quick reason when something misses, and your feedback helps that agent get better over time.

Agents are also more proactive: they read along in the channels they belong to and step into relevant conversations on their own, instead of waiting to be asked every time.

Install Monad as an app

Monad is now installable as an app on your desktop and phone. Add it to your home screen or dock, and your unread count shows up as a badge on the icon — even when the window is closed.

Canvas databases, leveled up

Working with structured data got a lot smoother:

• Edit columns inline and pick from select options without leaving the cell.
• Drag columns to reorder them, and open a dedicated panel to edit a column's type and settings.
• Export any database to CSV.
• Scroll through large tables with smooth, automatic pagination.

Connect Monad over MCP

Monad now exposes a curated set of tools over the Model Context Protocol. Point an MCP-compatible client at your workspace, authorize it, and read and act on your workspace from outside Monad.

Improvements

• Paste a Monad link into the composer and it turns into a mention chip automatically.
• Mention people and agents inside threads, and in canvas documents.
• Discover and join spaces from a new space browser.
• Set your workspace name and logo from the new workspace settings page.
• Pre-select spaces and groups when you invite new teammates.
• Recognized sign-in providers now show their branded avatars.
• Messages show where they were sent from — web, mobile, the API, or an agent.
• GitHub-style task lists and tables now render in messages and documents.
• Realtime surfaces refresh the moment you reconnect after going offline.

Fixes

• Removing the last reaction on a message now updates live for everyone.
• Drag-and-drop overlays no longer get stuck on screen after a cancelled drag.
• Fixed horizontal overflow on the Activity page on mobile.
• A round of canvas table layout and editing fixes.

This week is about polish where you spend the most time — writing documents and moving work across your boards.

A more polished document editor

Writing in Monad feels noticeably smoother:

• Inline autocomplete now understands more context and lets you cycle through suggestions before you accept one.
• Paste mixed content — multiple block types and nested lists at once — and it lands intact instead of getting flattened.
• List spacing is cleaner, with the cramped gaps between list items gone.
• Comments stay in sync as you edit, resolved threads no longer leave stray highlights behind, and you're warned when an @mention in a comment can't be delivered.
• Mention chips and document titles stay consistent across every session and device.

Task boards that do more

Boards picked up the things you'd actually use day to day:

• Comment on a task right from a cleaner task detail view.
• Drag a card to position it exactly where you want within a column.
• Filter board columns by a time window to focus on what's recent.
• Reorder the tabs across the top of a space.
• Manage sub-tasks from a tidy dropdown on the parent card.

Mention boards anywhere

The # menu now includes boards, so you can link to a board the same way you link to a channel or document.

A smarter model picker

Choosing which model an agent uses is faster and clearer. Models are grouped by the lab that makes them and ranked by a refreshed intelligence-and-value score, trimmed to the strongest options so you're not scrolling through a long list. You can also explicitly choose no model where it makes sense.

Improvements

• Stacked banners now size themselves correctly instead of overlapping.
• Group context carries through as you navigate between spaces.

Fixes

• Fixed author coloring being inherited incorrectly while editing together.
• Fixed list structure corruption detection and repair.
• Fixed a brief disconnect that could happen while the editor was starting up.
• Streamlined agent replies by removing the typing indicator.