Vellum 0.10.5
The one where your assistant actually feels like someone, onboarding stops being intimidating, and Slack messages arrive as they're being written.
- New onboarding. No more blank slate. First-time setup is now a guided walk-through: name your assistant, pick a personality, connect your tools, and you're ready before your first conversation. We also do a quick research pass on you, so your assistant gets to know you immediately, your work, your preferences, your context, instead of starting from zero. You go from "what is this" to "let's go".
- More distinct personality. Your assistant's personality now comes through clearly and consistently. Same assistant, same vibe, every conversation. It actually sounds like itself instead of defaulting to generic-bot-speak. The sarcastic one stays sarcastic. The chill one stays chill.
- More succinct responses. Responses are shorter and get to the point faster. If you ask "what's 2+2," you get "4," not a paragraph about the history of arithmetic. Less scrolling, more doing.
- Notification controls on the homepage. The homepage now has "Clear all" and "Mark all as read" buttons. Got 47 notifications piled up from a busy afternoon? One click, gone. No more dismissing them one by one like it's 2015.
- Redesigned Slack setup. Connecting your assistant to Slack has a cleaner, clearer setup flow. Fewer steps, less guessing, no mystery "something went wrong" moments.
- Slack messages stream live. When your assistant sends a message in Slack, you watch it appear word by word as it's being written. No more staring at a "typing..." indicator wondering if anything is happening. You see the thought forming in real time.
- Ollama works for local assistants. Ollama, which lets you run AI models locally on your own machine, now works properly for self-hosted assistants. Want to keep everything on your laptop, no cloud, no API keys? That actually works now.
- Quality profile runs on Fable. The managed Quality model profile now uses Fable as its underlying model. Better outputs on the highest-quality setting.
- Background task interfaces. Subagents, ACP runs, and other background tasks now have dedicated views so you can follow what's happening while they run. ACP (Agent Client Protocol) lets your assistant hand off coding tasks to external coding agents like Claude Code or Codex, which run autonomously and stream results back. So instead of "did it finish? is it stuck? should I refresh?" you watch the work happen in real time.
- Read only conversations are now resumable in the assistant. Previously, conversations started in another channel showed up as read-only, meaning you could see them but couldn't reply. Now you can pick up right where you left off and keep the conversation going without switching back to wherever it started.