2024.12.09
Contextual Release Highlights
Automatic Zero Downtime Agent Upgrade
Introducing SolutionAI: Design and SolutionAI Advancement
New Agent Log Level Controls
Automatic Zero Downtime Agent Upgrade
Your Contextual Agents will be upgraded automatically for you - with zero downtime - as part of this release. While not always required, significant improvements and fixes in this release require an automatic update to all Contextual Agents to use Agent Image Version 4.7.2.
While not likely, action may be required. If you support file uploads in your HTTP Flows as part of your solution, it is important to modify your Flow to make use of the "Allow File Uploads" feature on an HTTP In node, support for which was introduced in Agent Image Version 4.5.2 on November 7, 2024. Please contact support@contextual.io with questions.
Introducing SolutionAI: Design
SolutionAI remains in early release. As a collection of highly coordinated Expert Agents specifically trained on the Contextual platform and integrated deeply into the development experience, it’s a huge help. Thanks for your feedback on its performance, and for your patience while we continue to advance and improve its capabilities.
Introducing SolutionAI: Design
A brand new, conversational and consultative tool to support you in capturing structured context about what you’re building in your Contextual tenant - immediately bridging into the definition of the components that will bring your ideas to life in Contextual.
Define a Solution Brief including goals and features
Create a Data Strategy outlining sources of data and how it will be used
Explore and define Connections to systems outside of Contextual and make them real
Coming soon! Ability to include Agent+Flow architecture in your Solution Design
As the beginning of the Contextual Solution Graph, the Solution Design serves as a foundation for improved accuracy and efficacy of SolutionAI throughout the Contextual experience
SolutionAI: Data Model Improvements
Improved performance working with primaryKey and auto-generated properties
Now supports definition of properties as secrets
Improved creation of relationships between Object Types
Improved generation of sample record data in JSONL format for import or other use
Now able to set features like Audit Trail and Record Versioning directly
Now see properties that use enum values, or are auto-generated at a glance
SolutionAI: Flow Editor Improvements
Improved suggestion of end-to-end flows
More consistently prettified code
Improved inclusion and configuration of Contextual nodes that work with your Object Types and Record data
Improved use of Delay nodes
Improved configuration and inclusion of Log Tap nodes
Improved configuration of Template nodes based on intent, and use of Mustache syntax
Can now reposition and rearrange nodes on the canvas
Simply click the overflow menu (3 dots) item for running Agents in the Agents list view, and choose Change Log Level to change the Log Level for your agent for the next 60 minutes.
Log Tap nodes are essential to Flow development and monitoring operation of your solution on Contextual. These nodes can be set to a level of debug, info, warn, and error and when triggered in the course of a Flow, log the information you choose to your Tenant Logs which can be viewed live, and searched, in the Contextual dashboard.
During standard operation, Agents running Flows which include Log Tap nodes will only record warn and error levels to your tenant logs. However, we have now made it easy to temporarily change the Log Level of your running Agents to also include debug and/or info messages with zero interruption to Agent operation. The Agent will revert to default Log Level after 60 minutes.
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