Augment Code

Changes below are new since the last stable IntelliJ plugin, v0.488.0-stable. Improvements

• The agent now asks for your approval before reading a file that looks sensitive — .env files, private keys and certificates, and credential- or secret-named files — as well as any file excluded by your .augmentignore . Directory listings are unaffected, and .gitignore is still not treated as a read boundary.
• MCP servers reached over HTTP, SSE, or Streamable HTTP now go through your configured HTTP proxy, so MCP tools work on machines that require a proxy for outbound traffic.
• Skills with invalid SKILL.md frontmatter are now shown in Settings with an actionable error instead of being silently dropped. An invalid skill also no longer hides a valid skill of the same name. Reliability & Performance
• The plugin's sidecar process can now use up to 4096 MB of heap, instead of Node's default ceiling of roughly 1.7 GB, so loading a very large conversation no longer exhausts memory. If it still runs out, you now get an explicit out-of-memory message instead of the sidecar disappearing silently. The ceiling can be overridden with the -Daugment.sidecar.maxOldSpaceSizeMb IDE system property.

New Features

• Chat submit is now a rebindable VS Code keyboard shortcut. "Submit Chat Message" ( Enter ) and "Submit Chat Message Immediately" ( Ctrl+Enter / Cmd+Enter ) appear in Keyboard Shortcuts and can be remapped. Improvements
• Workspace-defined Augment hooks now run only in trusted workspaces. Command hooks supplied by a workspace stay disabled until you grant workspace trust, and are armed as soon as trust is granted.
• The agent now asks for approval before viewing sensitive files — .env files, private keys and certificates, credential- and secret-named files, and paths excluded by .augmentignore .
• Skills in .augment that fail to parse are now listed in Settings with the reason they were rejected, instead of disappearing silently.
• MCP Tool Search in Settings now distinguishes a failure to save your changes from a failure to load the current configuration.
• Remote MCP servers (HTTP and SSE) now honor the HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY environment variables. Reliability & Performance
• Chat responses now recover from mid-stream interruptions automatically. Recovery is suppressed after a tool call has already completed, so tools are never re-executed by a retry.

Control which models your team can use Admins can now choose which models people in their organization can use. Set a default on the new Model Access page and override it for individual models. Fleet Management flags Experts that use a model your organization no longer allows. New features

• Admins can manage every secret in the organization from Secrets, including its owner and the Spaces that can use it, and delete secrets they no longer need.
• Admins can create user groups and assign them to resources to manage access.
• Browser push notifications for agent updates are available in beta. Turn them on in Settings. Improvements
• Sessions can clone repositories from more than one GitHub organization.
• Incident Investigator can investigate incidents you describe directly in Cosmos, not only from alert threads.
• Agents can create private Slack channels and start group DMs. A Slack workspace admin needs to reconnect Slack in Settings > Connectors to turn this on.
• Runlayer is now in the MCP catalog.
• You can filter connectors that need attention, and MCP errors explain how to fix them.
• Environments can repair their repositories, and failed refreshes tell you what to do next.

Tell us how your agent did Rate any completed response with a thumbs up or thumbs down. If a response missed the mark, choose a reason such as "Didn't follow my instructions" or "Too slow or stuck." This helps us improve where agents fall short. Improvements

• Teammates joining an existing workspace get a shorter onboarding that focuses on connecting their own accounts.
• 28 more vendor-hosted MCP servers are available, including Mixpanel, Pendo, BugSnag, Swagger, and Zephyr.
• Retired models no longer appear in model pickers, and Experts using a retired model switch to its replacement automatically.
• Cloud sessions start and resume faster.
• The Expert integrations picker shows a Connect button for Jira and Confluence when they aren't connected.
• File comments now open in a panel on the right.
• "Back to app" is now at the top of the Settings sidebar. Bug fixes
• Resumed conversations keep their extended reasoning instead of losing it.
• Sent messages no longer stay stuck in the queue.
• File attachment details no longer appear inside your messages while they stream.
• Diffs now load for sessions that don't clone a repository.
• MCP reconnects now save correctly.

New Features

• Reasoning Effort Flag : Added a flag to control the model's reasoning effort from the CLI. Bug Fixes
• Fixed a crash that could occur when replaying a session summary that included unsupported thinking content.
• Removed the secret get --reveal flag since it did not work.
• The daemon now validates the host's Git version at startup and reports a clear error if it's too old.
• Fixed the agent failing to parse file view ranges from malformed tool calls.
• Improved error messages when an MCP server's header secret configuration fails.
• Fixed prompt module output being cut off before completion.
• Fixed duplicate error notifications when a VFS sync failed.
• Extended the knowledgebase download timeout to prevent failures on large codebases.
• Patched security vulnerabilities identified in a routine dependency scan.
• Fixed several issues where VFS syncing could destroy or resurrect deleted files.

Measure what your agents deliver with Outcome Analytics Outcome Analytics is out of beta and open to everyone on your team. Results on the Outcomes tab are grouped by category. You can add your own metrics as columns and select a single outcome to see its trend over time. Search, filter, and export results to CSV, then drill into the sessions behind each outcome. Session costs remain visible only to admins. New features

• Choose a reasoning effort level when selecting a model for sessions and Experts.
• Connect self-hosted GitLab instances, Apollo, and more hosted OAuth providers.
• Experts can now be set to use every integration you have connected. Improvements
• Secrets can no longer use names reserved by the platform, and you get a warning before a name overrides a built-in credential.
• Automations show who created each trigger and when it was last updated, and run history shows who owns each session.
• Every webhook trigger type now uses the same setup flow.
• Deleting an Expert also removes its Automations.
• Deep Code Reviewer now runs on GPT 5.6 Sol.
• Press Escape to leave focus view in Files. Bug fixes

Changes below are new since the last stable IntelliJ plugin, v0.482.3-stable. Improvements

• Command hooks supplied by a repository's own .augment/settings.json now run only in projects you have marked as trusted. In an untrusted project those hooks are blocked; hooks you configure yourself at the user, system, or plugin level continue to run as before. Changing a project's trust state takes effect on the next hook event, with no restart needed.
• MCP servers that announce a changed tool list during a session are now picked up automatically. Previously the tool list was read once at startup and could go stale for the rest of the session.
• MCP servers are now verified with a real round-trip at startup, so a server that completes its handshake but cannot actually service calls no longer shows as connected.
• Removing an MCP server now sticks. Previously a removed server could reappear when the set of active servers was rebuilt. Groundwork
• Included early groundwork for a future guided migration experience. It is not enabled in this release and has no effect today. Reliability & Performance

New Features

• Daemon Pool Bundles : Added declarative configuration for daemon pools. Improvements
• Environment Rebuilds : Environment rebuild operations now run asynchronously.
• Plan-Mode Editors : Plan-mode editor paths now expand ~ to the home directory.
• MCP Scopes : Private and shared MCP scope changes now work when organization-level access controls are disabled.
• Local Daemons : Prevented duplicate local daemons from starting.
• Explore Agents : Corrected the tool allowlist for explore sub-agents. Bug Fixes
• OAuth Recovery : Improved recovery when hosted MCP OAuth sessions expire.
• Azure DevOps Projects : Preserved Azure DevOps repository project information.
• Authentication Security : Auth session tokens are now written with restricted file permissions.