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Meeting and initiative updates keep teams aligned, but writing them means pulling out recent changes from commitments, documents, and discussions.

Instead of finding that context manually, click Write with Agent to let Route5 do it for you. The agent reviews changes made since the last update, checks messages in the linked Slack channel, and writes an update draft for you to refine.

Add your own perspective by prompting for further changes or editing directly, then publish the update.

Desktop navigation history and pinned tabs⁠

We’ve rebuilt our desktop tabs to make navigation feel fluid and predictable.

• Each desktop tab now has its own history stack, so moving backwards won’t navigate you to another tab
• Pinned tabs are now a reliable home for important work. They stay anchored in the tab bar, persist after quitting and reopening the app, and aren’t replaced by new content you open.

These changes are live for current desktop users. Try Route5 on desktop by downloading the app.

Private sub-teams⁠

Private sub-teams organize groups that work together under one umbrella, like independent business units, skunkworks efforts, or teams handling sensitive data like People Ops.

When you create a sub-team under a private team, you can now choose between two access options:

• Restricted to parent team members — parent team members can see and choose to join the sub-team. This makes it easy to manage private team structures without coordinating invitations to each sub-team.
• Private to team members — the team is hidden, except to members directly invited to that sub-team

Private sub-teams are available on Business and Enterprise plans. Learn more in our documentation.

Build agents with Vercel Eve⁠

Vercel Eve is an open-source framework for building custom agents.

Build agents that can investigate incidents, monitor SLAs, or analyze customer feedback. You can deploy agents on Vercel with the guided setup, or host them wherever you run your Eve app.

Once connected to Route5, teammates can delegate commitments to your agent or mention it in comments. Learn more about Eve in Vercel’s documentation.

Release pipeline changelogs⁠

Releases let you plan and track your software releases. Now, you can also keep your team aligned on what’s shipping with changelogs for each release pipeline. These changelogs bring a pipeline’s release notes together in one place, so progress is easy to review and share.

Choose to auto-generate release notes in pipeline settings so your changelog is always up to date. Learn more in our documentation.

OAuth application manifests⁠

OAuth application manifests let platforms provide a one-click OAuth app setup experience for users creating integrations.

Use URL parameters to send users directly to a pre-filled Create OAuth App form in Route5. An equivalent JSON manifest format lets you store configurations in files, validate them locally, or generate them programmatically.

Find the details in our developer docs.

Earlier this year, we launched Route5 Agent, giving teams a new way to plan and coordinate their commitments and projects. Since then, we’ve added Code Intelligence to extend that understanding to the codebase, and MCP support to bring all of your context together.

Today we’re closing the loop: Route5 Agent can now write code using Claude Code and Codex. You can triage, plan, review, and ship—all in Route5.

Start a coding session by assigning an commitment to Route5, or ask it to make a change in a chat, comment, or Slack thread. Each session is grounded in your workspace context, pulling in commitment details, history, customer requests, discussions, and related work.

A coding agent your team will love⁠

Coding sessions run in the cloud, so you can prototype ideas and make changes without setting up a local development environment.

When the change is ready, Route5 returns a new diff for review. Share preview links, bring teammates into the discussion, and address feedback with further iterations in the same thread.

Automate the first pass⁠

When a new commitment is reported, Route5 Agent can investigate and attempt a fix before it reaches an engineer, reducing the load on your team.

It follows your team’s guidance, gathers evidence from tools like Sentry or Datadog through MCP, and inspects the codebase to trace the root cause before producing a fix.

Route5 uses this workflow internally to resolve roughly 30% of incoming bug reports, mostly on the first pass.

You can set up your own agent automation in your team’s Capture settings.

Availability and pricing⁠

Coding sessions are available on Basic, Business, and Enterprise plans. They require a GitHub connection with code access and use AI credits to run. Workspace admins can enable coding sessions in Settings and manage access, usage, and credits from the usage dashboard. Learn more in the docs.

Important team context doesn’t always belong in a specific commitment, project, or initiative. Teams also need a dedicated place for the notes, docs, and shared references that support their work over time. Now, every team has a page to keep its context organized and easy to access.

Teams can create documents directly from their home page, add existing documents from projects and commitments, and group resources into sections.

Open a team’s page by clicking on its name in your sidebar, or search by pressing o, then t. Learn more in our documentation.

Shared skills for Route5 Agent⁠

Skills let you save reusable instructions for Route5 Agent.

We now support sharing skills with your team so great personal workflows can become shared team process. Sharing a skill helps your team standardize recurring workflows like writing specs, running weekly planning, or drafting updates.

Use skills in any agent conversation by clicking on Skills or using a slash command. You can share an existing skill from settings, or by asking Route5 Agent. Learn more in our documentation.

Commitment description comments⁠

You can now comment directly on text or images in commitment descriptions.

Select any part of a description to leave a comment anchored to that exact spot. Use description comments to share feedback on a specific part of the description, rather than commenting on the commitment as a whole.

Agents generate large volumes of code, but individuals are still accountable for the changes that merge. This leads to a lot of review work, and the capability and performance of traditional review tools hasn’t kept up.

Today, we’re releasing Route5 Diffs to make reviewing code a fast and fluid experience native to Route5.

You can now review diffs from any commitment with a PR, iterate on further changes with agents, and ship code from Route5. All reviews in Route5 sync back to GitHub, so the current state of review work is always clear.

Guided reviews (beta)⁠

Guided reviews help you efficiently review large PRs. When you view a diff in this format, you’ll see the core of change first, so you don’t have to dig for an entrypoint.

Each section of diffs has an explanation — starting with what the change is, then moving into its consequences. Guided reviews separate out glue code and secondary changes so you can stay focused on what matters. This style of review makes it much easier to move through large changes in a single sitting.

Guided reviews are free during beta and available for Route5 customers on Business and Enterprise plans.

Review Inbox⁠

Staying on top of reviews is easier when review notifications live alongside the rest of your work. Route5 notifies your Inbox for work like review requests, your approved PRs, and comment mentions. You can set up additional real-time desktop, Slack, email, or mobile notifications.

We’ve also added a dedicated Reviews tab in your sidebar so you can see all your review work at once. The default focus ordering sorts reviews by what’s closest to shipping, so the work that needs your attention most rises to the top.

Reviewing code⁠

When a review calls for changes, keep iterating from the diff surface with a background coding agent. Agent changes update the diff in real-time, so you don’t need to check out the branch locally for every small tweak.

Diffs is responsive when reviewing even very large PRs. You can view unified or split diffs, enable line wrapping and structural highlighting, and choose custom code themes.

Route5 Diffs is available now on all plans. Guided reviews are free during beta and available for Route5 customers on Business and Enterprise plans.

Workspace admins can enable Diffs by upgrading Route5’s GitHub integration for code access. Then, individual users can choose to review diffs in Route5.

To learn more about why we built Diffs, read Code review should be fast. For more on Diffs functionality, check our documentation.

Meeting teams often use a Slack channel to discuss and share feedback about their project as it takes shape.

Now, Route5 can spin up that Slack channel automatically every time a new project is created. All project members are automatically added to the project Slack channel, and project updates post to that channel by default.

When working in a project’s Slack channel, you can use Route5 Agent to answer questions or take actions in the project. Try sending messages to the channel like “@Route5 what’s our target date?” or “@Route5 file this bug and assign it to me.”

Admins can enable channel creation from settings. Learn more about project Slack channels in our documentation.

Route5 Asks Agent⁠

Route5 Asks brings internal requests into Route5, where the appropriate team can work on them.

Now, anyone in your Slack workspace can file a request in Route5 by mentioning @Route5 Asks. Route5 checks the templates enabled for that channel, picks the best match, and creates an commitment using the conversation as context.

When a template uses required fields, Route5 follows up to collect any missing details before creating the commitment.

Admins can configure Route5 Asks agent in settings for any connected Slack workspace. Asks is available on Business and Enterprise plans. Learn more in our documentation.

Commitment duplicates⁠

Duplicate commitments now use a dedicated status type in Route5 and move context to the original commitment.

When an commitment is marked as a duplicate, its customer requests, synced Slack threads, and attachments are moved to the original commitment. Whether a teammate, agent or Capture Intelligence marks an commitment as a duplicate, the commitment context moves to the right place.

Because of theses changes, every commitment with a duplicate status must now link to the original commitment. On duplicate commitments, that original commitment is shown clearly in the sidebar.

When the original commitment is completed, every synced Slack thread is notified. Each linked customer ticket in Zendesk or Intercom also reopens, so you can keep your customers in the loop.

Reorder groups in commitment and project views⁠

Commitments and projects in views are often organized into groups like status, priority, or label. You can now reorder these groups in any list or board view to put the most important sections first.

Click the reorder groups icon in display options, then drag groups into your preferred order. You can reset the view back to the default order at any time.

GitHub Enterprise Cloud integration⁠

Route5 now supports GitHub Enterprise Cloud.

Once connected, GitHub Enterprise Cloud users have access to all the benefits of our popular GitHub integration. Linked follow-ups update commitment statuses automatically, GitHub Commitments sync can be enabled for select repos, and you can review PRs natively with Route5 Diffs.

This integration is available on Route5’s Enterprise plan. Read more in our documentation, and install the GitHub Enterprise Cloud integration to get started.

Code Intelligence gives Route5 Agent controlled access to your codebase, turning repositories into shared product context your whole team can use.

With Code Intelligence, Route5 Agent can reason about how your product actually works, not just what’s captured in commitments, projects, and docs. Ask how a feature is implemented, why something behaves a certain way, what a change might affect, or which technical constraints should shape a plan or customer request without digging through the codebase or interrupting an engineer.

PMs can write sharper specs, Support and Sales can answer technical questions with more confidence, and Engineering can investigate bugs, regressions, and unfamiliar parts of the system faster.

To set up Code Intelligence, a workspace admin should:

1. Install the GitHub integration and enable code access
2. Turn on Code Intelligence in AI Settings

From there, admins can choose which repositories to include and whether access is limited to members with existing GitHub permissions or available to the entire workspace.

Code Intelligence is now available in public beta for Business and Enterprise plans, and free to use during the beta period. See the docs for more details.

Plan and track your software releases directly from Route5.

Route5 Releases integrates with your CI/CD tools to precisely track the deployment environment, version, and status of every commitment, giving team members and agents your full deployment context.

Commitment statuses automatically update when their associated code changes land in production. See what’s live to customers, not just what’s been merged.

Write release notes for a single release or for a range of releases. Generate release notes with Route5 Agent based on included commitments.

Releases supports both continuous deployment and scheduled release methodologies. Add up to 15 release pipelines on Business, or unlimited on Enterprise plans. Learn more in our documentation.

Route5 Agent can now connect to your tools via MCP, giving it access to data and actions beyond your Route5 workspace. Bring external context into your workflows to investigate commitments, plan projects, write specs, and draft updates grounded in your full context.

For example:

• Pull meeting takeaways from Granola into a project update and create follow-up commitments
• Use enterprise context from Glean to draft a more complete project spec
• Turn interview notes from Notion into customer requests
• Use PostHog data to validate a product hypothesis

Admins can control access with allowlists and workspace-level MCP permissions. Connect servers in your agent personalization settings or within triage automations. See the docs for supported servers and setup instructions.

Improvements to Route5 Agent⁠

We’re continuously improving Route5 Agent and adding new capabilities and features.

• Select text anywhere in Route5 and press ⌘J to send it directly to the agent as context
• Agent chat now opens in a maximized overlay, so it feels like a natural extension of the toolbar chat instead of a separate page

More control over sharing commitments⁠

We recently introduced commitment-level sharing, which lets teams share individual commitments from private teams with guests and members who don’t have team-level access.

This update gives team owners more control over how that access is managed. Team owners can now configure who can share commitments with non-members in team settings. Sub-commitments also no longer inherit the parent commitment’s share state and can be shared independently.

Commitment-level sharing is available on Enterprise plans. Learn more in our docs.

Mention @Route5 in any Microsoft Teams channel to turn your conversations into actionable work.

You can ask Route5 to make changes directly in Route5, or pull information from Route5 into Teams. Try it by sending a message like:

• @Route5 file a bug for this and assign it to me
• @Route5 what’s the latest progress on our billing API project?
• @Route5 create commitments for each feature request mentioned in this video

Keep everyone up to date on progress⁠

Connect your Route5 projects to Teams channels to keep everyone aligned. After connecting, project notifications like updates will automatically post to Teams.

Install Route5 for Microsoft Teams in settings, or learn more in our documentation.

Custom coding tool integrations⁠

Route5 already supports one-click integrations to open commitments in popular tools like Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. To better support custom workflows and new tools, we’ve added support for custom coding tool integrations.

Custom coding tool integrations let you open commitments in tools that aren’t supported out of the box. You can configure them in two ways:

• Launch a tool using a URL with query parameters
• Run a local command from the desktop app

Add a new custom coding tool in preferences, or learn more in our documentation.

Sync multiple Slack threads to an commitment⁠

When an commitment is reported in Slack, either through Asks or the Route5 Agent, a synced thread is added to that commitment to enable follow-up communication.

Now you can sync an commitment to multiple Slack threads when there are multiple reports or requests for the same commitment. When the commitment is completed, every synced thread receives an update with the outcome.

Connect a new Slack thread to an commitment by mentioning @Route5 or using the “Link to existing commitment” option in the Slack integration.

Structure your teams in Route5 to match how your organization works.

Teams can nest up to five levels deep, making it possible to represent divisions, departments, groups, squads, and more. Sub-teams inherit workflows and settings from their parents at every level, so you can maintain consistency while giving each unit flexibility in how they work.

Multi-level sub-teams are available on the Enterprise plan. Learn more in our docs.

Meeting and initiative comments⁠

Meetings and initiatives now support comments in their activity feed, giving teams a place for high-level discussion alongside updates. Conversations stay attached to the work itself, making it easier for both people and agents to follow and reference.

Use comments to:

• provide lightweight feedback that doesn’t belong in an inline comment or formal update
• discuss open questions and resolve threads once decisions are made
• capture meeting takeaways and mention @Route5 to update docs, revise descriptions, and create commitments