ScoutOS Changelog - page 2

This week, we've introduced exciting new features to enhance your experience with Scout. From the release of the Scout CLI and AI Workflows as Code to improvements in environment variables and collections performance, these updates are designed to streamline your workflow management and boost productivity.

Scout CLI and AI Workflows as Code

• Collaborate Effectively: Treat AI workflows like any other piece of code in your repository. Use familiar tools like Git for version control, collaboration, and peer reviews.
• Automate with Confidence: Leverage CI/CD pipelines to test, validate, and deploy AI workflows, ensuring they are production-ready at every step.
• Streamline SOPs: Align AI workflow development with your standard operating procedures (SOPs), creating a unified and efficient development lifecycle.

The Scout CLI is the ultimate tool for managing and deploying AI workflows programmatically, giving engineering teams the flexibility they need to scale their AI applications while maintaining precision and control.

Secrets / Environment Variables

• Enhanced Workflow Integration: Environment variables and secrets are now exposed for use in workflow runs, allowing for more dynamic and secure workflow configurations. This update simplifies the management of sensitive data and configuration settings across your workflows.

Collections Performance Improvements

• Increased Reliability and Speed: We've made significant performance and reliability improvements to collections, ensuring faster and more dependable data processing. This enhancement is crucial for users managing large datasets and complex workflows.

Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to focus on improving the onboarding experience and integrating Copilot creation into the workflow builder for a more seamless user experience.

This week, we're thrilled to share enhancements designed to make your experience with Scout even more powerful and intuitive. We've introduced a new integration with Twilio, refreshed our LLM Block for smoother prompt engineering, launched a Templates Gallery for quick starts, improved our web data ingestion process, and unveiled an AI Copilot in the Workflow Builder. Read on for more details!

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Twilio Integration

We've launched a new block that integrates seamlessly with Twilio, enabling users to supercharge their SMS channels using AI agents. This feature is particularly valuable for businesses looking to enhance customer engagement and automate communication workflows efficiently.

Refreshed LLM Block

We've rolled out a series of UX improvements to the LLM block. These enhancements are designed to facilitate faster and more efficient prompt engineering, allowing users to craft and test their language models with greater ease and precision.

Templates Gallery

Get started quickly with our new Templates Gallery, available at our website. This feature provides a collection of pre-built workflow templates, making it easier than ever to dive into creating powerful automation sequences tailored to your needs.

Web Crawl to Markdown

Our recent update to data ingestion from web crawls now automatically stores web page content as markdown. This improvement streamlines the process of capturing and formatting web data, making it more accessible and easier to process within your workflows.

Copilot in Workflow Builder

We are excited to introduce an AI Copilot within the workflow builder to assist users in debugging and constructing their workflows. This feature aims to simplify the workflow creation process and enhance productivity by providing real-time support and suggestions.

Next Up on the Roadmap

Looking ahead, we're working on some exciting features:

• Workflows as Code: This will include a Scout CLI and GitHub integration to enhance version control and collaboration.
• Workflow Canvas Refresh: A refreshed canvas to provide a more intuitive and visually appealing workflow building experience.
• Environment Variables / Secret Management: Improvements in managing environment variables and secrets to enhance security and flexibility.

Stay tuned for these updates, and as always, thank you for being part of the Scout community!

This week, we've introduced several exciting updates that enhance the functionality and versatility of the Scout platform. From new integrations and improved blocks to UX enhancements, these updates are designed to streamline your workflow creation and management experience. Thank you for being part of our journey as we continue to innovate and deliver tools that empower your automation processes.

Reasoning Blocks

• Introduced new reasoning blocks with support for o1, o1-mini, and o1-preview, allowing for more sophisticated decision-making within workflows.

Gemini Model Support

• Added support for 8 Gemini models, expanding the capabilities and integration options available for users.

Copilot Improvements

• Enhanced the Copilot with the ability to pass custom metadata into workflows.
• Added a copy icon to Copilot messages and resolved a scroll bar issue.
• Fixed a bug with the copy button on code blocks and improved general styling.

DeepSeek R1

• Enabled access to DeepSeek R1 in the Reasoning LLM block, offering advanced reasoning capabilities.

Key-Value Store Block

• Introduced a new block that allows workflows to store memory, enabling more complex and stateful automation sequences.

Source Mapping AI Assist

• Added an AI assist feature to the source mapping section, simplifying the configuration process with intelligent suggestions.

Ability to Schedule a Sync

• Users can now schedule sync operations, set frequencies, and pause/resume schedules, providing greater control over data synchronization.

Copy and Paste / Duplicate Blocks

• Added functionality to duplicate blocks and copy/paste within the workflow builder, enhancing workflow creation efficiency.

Added Search to the Templates Modal

• Introduced a search bar to the workflows template modal, making it easier to find and utilize templates.

Save to Collection v2 Table Block

• A new block that allows users to save content to a collections v2 table within workflows, facilitating data organization and retrieval.

Slack Trigger Revamp

• Major upgrade to the Slack trigger with a simple configuration mode and pre-configured trigger modes such as Active Listener, Mention, and Thread Initiator.

The entire Collections experience has been rebuilt from the ground up to support greater flexibility and deliver massive performance improvements. Tables are the new foundation of Collections.

With Tables you no longer need to define your schema on each document. The power of this new functionality is showcased on the Collections v2 block which now includes hybrid search and more.

All comes fully support on our API as well.

Copilot has been rebuilt from the ground up.

2.0 brings the powerful functionality of Scout directly to your website or application, providing an interactive assistant that enhances your user experience and improves engagement. Two lines of code is all you need.

<scout-copilot copilot_id="YOUR_COPILOT_ID_HERE"></scout-copilot>
<script type="module" src="https://copilot.scoutos.com/copilot.js"></script>

Initial Activities

The initial_activities property allows you to set up the initial state of the Copilot chat by preloading messages and actions when the Copilot is initialized. This feature is useful for customizing the user’s first interaction with the Copilot, such as displaying a welcome message or suggesting common queries.

<scout-copilot copilot_id="YOUR_COPILOT_ID_HERE"></scout-copilot>
<script type="module" src="https://copilot.scoutos.com/copilot.js"></script>
<script>
  const copilot = document.querySelector('scout-copilot');
  copilot.initial_activities = [
    {
      activity_type: 'llm.chat.message',
      img_url: 'https://example.com/assistant-avatar.jpg',
      role: 'assistant',
      content: 'How can I assist you today?',
    },
    {
      activity_type: 'action_list',
      header: 'Suggestions',
      items: [
        {
          action_item_type: 'suggested_query',
          img_url: 'https://example.com/icon1.svg',
          title: 'What is Scout?',
          query: 'What is Scout?',
        },
        {
          action_item_type: 'link',
          img_url: 'https://example.com/icon2.png',
          title: 'Join our Community',
          url: 'https://community.example.com',
        },
        {
          action_item_type: 'link',
          img_url: 'https://example.com/icon3.svg',
          title: 'Contact Support',
          url: 'mailto:support@example.com',
        },
      ],
    },
  ];
</script>

Thinking Block

The new Thinking Block sends a “pending state” message to the Copilot client, giving the user context on the action being taken during that step of execution in the workflow that is generating the Scout Copilot response.

Copilot Message Block

This is similar to an LLM block. The connection to the Scout Copilot in the client is streaming, so you can send many messages in one workflow run using subsequent Copilot message blocks.

Deploy the Copilot 2.0 today with this guide.