What's new

Agent hooks and new settings

• Agent hooks — run your own commands before or after an agent acts, manage them in the new Hooks pane, and import hooks from Claude Code and Codex
• Redesigned account and organization settings in Qualia Cloud, with spend charts, CSV exports, per-member usage limits, and per-session sign-out
• Notebooks stay fast with huge outputs, and a running cell keeps its full output when you reload
• Skip a command an agent wants to run and it carries on, and agents waiting on you are listed first
• Plus Find in Markdown and writeups, GPU fallbacks, a faster file explorer, Create .venv that installs your project's packages, and other quality-of-life work

Workspace previews and notifications

• Workspace previews and search on the Qualia Cloud Workspaces page
• Browser notifications when an agent needs your input
• More reliable desktop startup on slower Macs
• Plus custom headers for your own API keys and other quality-of-life work

Markdown writeups and live plots

Writeups move to plain Markdown, figures keep up with experiments as they run, and agents get more disciplined about how they run them.

• Writeups are now Markdown — edit visually or as source, and export to PDF, Word, Markdown, or LaTeX
• Live plots — figures that redraw as new results land, including from Weights & Biases runs
• Scheduled pipelines on every Cloud workspace
• Smarter agents that fix failures before moving on, stop bad training runs early, and ask fewer questions in autonomous mode
• Plus Claude Opus 5.5, a reorganized menu bar, faster claim checking and cloud workspaces, a smaller desktop download, and other quality-of-life work

Connectors and pipelines

Qualia connects to far more of your stack, and work you set up once can now run on its own and be shared with your team.

• Connectors — Google Drive, BigQuery, and OneDrive with a plain sign-in, plus Linear, Notion, GitHub, and more now in Qualia Cloud, and your own MCP servers by URL
• Pipelines and dashboards — turn a chat into a repeatable pipeline and share its results on a dashboard by link
• Shared workspaces — invite anyone by email, share with your organization or by public link, and see who's viewing what
• A new Workspaces page in Qualia Cloud, plus whole-folder uploads
• Plus a new typeface, the latest frontier models, citations that open to the exact lines they quote, faster cloud chats, and other quality-of-life work

Shared workspaces

Bring other people into your workspace, and keep more of your setup between sessions.

• Shared workspaces — invite people by email or link to view your files and chats, or let them comment
• Packages an agent installs stay installed after a cloud workspace's compute is rebuilt
• Agents can see your open tabs, the cell you're on, and the text you've selected
• Pin files and chats so their tabs survive Close Others and Close All
• Plus renaming and deleting cloud workspaces, default-model changes reaching existing chats, layout preferences that follow you between devices, interactive charts in cloud notebooks, and other quality-of-life work

Large files and settings

Cloud workspaces can now move files too big to open, and settings gets a home you can reach from anywhere.

• Large file transfers — upload and download cloud workspace files up to 30 GB, and download folders up to 8 GB, far past what the editor can open
• Settings is now a searchable modal, opened from anywhere with Cmd/Ctrl+comma
• Drag a region out of a plot or image to attach just that part to a chat
• Approve, deny, or reply to command requests right from the message box
• Plus dragging agents into tabs and splits, deleting several agents at once, writeup citations that open their source, workspace storage usage, and other quality-of-life work

Databricks and multiple workspaces

Qualia connects to your Databricks workspace, and cloud accounts can now keep separate workspaces.

• Databricks — connect your workspace, browse Unity Catalog, query it from your notebooks, and ask Genie questions in plain English
• Multiple cloud workspaces, each with its own files, projects, agents, and compute
• Writeups can now be dashboards or presentations, lay content out in side-by-side columns, and export to Word
• Plus capturing evidence by selecting text in any file, uploading folders straight into a cloud workspace, a getting-started walkthrough, and other quality-of-life work

Script mode

Agents can now work in plain scripts as well as notebooks, with new models and new kinds of figures to work with.

• Script mode — a setting that has agents write and run scripts instead of notebooks, and cite evidence straight out of the files they produce
• New models to choose from, including Opus 5, Sonnet 5, and two new Gemini models — and turning thinking off now takes effect
• Plotly and other interactive charts render properly in notebooks and write-ups, and agents can capture them as knowledge
• Agents can read scanned PDFs and the figures on each page
• Plus pause and resume for running agents, control over how much they delegate, notification sounds, command approval on Windows, and other quality-of-life work

Qualia in the browser

You can now run Qualia in the browser, and the desktop layout has been reworked to give you more room.

• Qualia in the browser — start free without downloading anything
• Reworked layout — a simpler two-pane sidebar, collapsible panels, and a top bar that keeps the project switcher, settings, agent context, and kernels in reach
• Agents can read PDFs from your workspace, page by page
• Markdown files open as a rendered preview you can flip to source, and the explorer can show hidden files
• Plus notebook autocomplete, rules in cloud workspaces, skills linked from a folder on disk, and other quality-of-life work

Moving work in and out

Files, projects, and workflows you already have all get easier to bring into Qualia — and easier to take back out.

• Upload and download files straight from the explorer, and export or import whole projects — sessions, tasks, knowledge, and notebooks — in local or cloud workspaces
• Learn an existing workflow — point Qualia at a folder you already work in and it turns the procedure into a reusable skill
• Desktop notifications when an agent finishes its work or needs your input
• Sign back into tool connections that failed to authenticate
• Plus a redesigned model picker with Kimi K3, GLM-5.2, and MiniMax M3, a zoomable image viewer, faster project switching, and other quality-of-life work

CSV editor and settings redesign

A dedicated CSV editor lands, and settings get rebuilt from scratch.

• CSV editor — open and edit CSVs and TSVs that run to gigabytes, with find and replace, row and column editing, undo, and per-column stats
• Settings redesigned into grouped sections that are easier to search and navigate
• Switching between projects is much faster in workspaces with lots of projects and chats
• Export any chat as a Markdown transcript, and exported writeups now use the document's real title
• Plus much faster PDF exports, previews on collapsed notebook cells, dragging multiple files at once in the explorer, a menu bar in the browser and on Windows, and other quality-of-life work

Plot zoom and smarter search

This release is about moving around your own work faster — inspecting figures and trusting search.

• Click any plot or image in a notebook to open it full size, with zoom and pan, and tall figures now render readably instead of shrinking
• Search now covers unsaved notebook edits, skips generated folders, and jumps to the exact cell you clicked
• Tell an agent a preference and it can save it as a rule for you, or import an existing instructions file as one
• Plus Claude Sonnet 5, accepting and rejecting findings straight from the knowledge map, a way out of stuck notebook save conflicts, and other quality-of-life work

Chat search and custom themes

Your whole chat history becomes searchable, and you can theme the app your way.

• Search previous chats — find any message across every conversation from the Search sidebar and jump straight to it
• Custom themes — set your own colours for the whole app
• Agents can see which files and notebooks you have open, so you can just say "explain this plot"
• Agents check in more often during long runs instead of going quiet
• Plus clearer messages when a model request fails, a fix for sessions locking up overnight, and other quality-of-life work

Lens and a refreshed interface

A new way to see your work, a broad interface pass, and notebooks that handle interactive widgets.

• Lens — a new view that lays your tasks and findings out as a map you can navigate
• A broad interface pass: a tabbed sidebar, a combined explorer for agents, knowledge, and files, a cleaner chat with syntax-highlighted code and diffs, and a reworked agent customization menu
• Notebooks gain interactive widgets and autocomplete that knows the variables you have defined
• Plus signed and notarized macOS downloads, jump-to-cell from chat activity, PDF exports that keep all their text, middle-click to close a tab, and other quality-of-life work

Inline cell edits

You can now point the agent at one specific thing — a single cell, a single finding — instead of taking everything through the main chat.

• Inline cell edits — click the chat icon on a code cell, say what you want changed, and the agent rewrites and reruns just that cell in place
• Reply to a proposed finding instead of only accepting or rejecting it, so you can ask what it means or push back and still decide later
• Find and replace in notebooks and files
• New models show up without updating the app, starting with Gemini 3.5 Flash
• Plus clickable file paths in chat, running cloud GPUs and their cost in one panel, custom SSH ports for remote connections, and other quality-of-life work

Richer chats and agent-first layout

Chats get real formatting, and the whole app can now revolve around the agent instead of the editor.

• Richer chats — agent replies now render headings, lists, tables, LaTeX, code blocks, figures, and inline citations
• Agent-first layout — a new mode that puts chat front and center, with the editor appearing alongside only when you open a file
• R and Julia notebooks catch up to Python, with variable capture and live variable inspection
• Agents can work with Jira issues and Confluence pages
• Plus a Linux desktop app, remote connections that survive sleep and Wi-Fi drops without losing your chats, editable raw cells, and other quality-of-life work

Skills and Planned Tasks

Skills give agents packaged, repeatable capabilities, and Planned Tasks push them to plan before they act.

• Skills — a first-class system for teaching agents repeatable procedures and packaged capabilities
• Planned tasks — agents now plan multi-step work up front, then execute and report against the plan
• Custom instructions overhauled into a rule-based format so guidance stays scoped and predictable
• Plus secure credential storage, broader zoom support, and a long list of quality-of-life work

Image pasting

• Paste images directly into chat — screenshots, plots, and references go straight to the agent

Knowledge System

Persistent knowledge that travels with your agents.

• Knowledge System — give agents persistent context they can read and write across sessions
• Agents can break a task down into smaller steps before executing
• Plus agent creation confirmation, an Agents sidebar redesign, Gantt view improvements, and other quality-of-life work

Themes and project management

The app gets serious about theming, and it gets a lot easier to move work in and out of Qualia.

• Catppuccin themes plus much broader theming across the app
• Export and import generations as JSON
• Delete entire projects from the UI
• Manually detach notebooks from agents
• Plus task completion notifications, scroll-to-bottom in chat, and other quality-of-life work

Todo graphs

• Todo graphs — visualize and steer multi-step agent work as a graph instead of a linear todo list

Top nav and image compression

• Fully featured top nav across the app
• Images are downsampled and compressed before being sent to the agent