Preview code-first workflows live from your local bridge, right inside the dashboard. novu dev now opens a Local environment instead of the legacy local Studio.
The dashboard now has a Local environment mode that replaces the legacy local Studio. It gives you a code-first workspace to preview and iterate on your workflows live.
Run the CLI in your project and Novu tunnels your local bridge app, then opens the dashboard on the Local environment via a secure handshake.
npx novu dev
Your locally defined workflows show up in the dashboard instantly, so you can review steps, payloads and previews against your real code as you edit. Syncing workflows to dev and production flows are left unchanged.
You can now view and manage all of a subscriber's delivery credentials right from the dashboard. Open any subscriber, switch to the new Credentials tab, and every channel they can be reached on is in one place — no more round-trips to the API to check why a push or chat message didn't land.
Credentials are organized by channel — Email, SMS, Push and Chat — with a card per connected integration. Push lists each device token, Chat shows webhooks and endpoints for Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, WhatsApp and more. Values are masked by default, with a toggle to reveal them and one-click copy.
Add credentials without leaving the dashboard. Append push device tokens, or add chat endpoints per provider — a Slack channel or user, a Teams channel or user, a Telegram chat, or a plain webhook URL. Editing and deleting are inline too, so fixing a stale token is a two-click job.
For Slack, Microsoft Teams and Telegram, generate a per-subscriber connect link and share it. Your subscriber completes the OAuth or Telegram linking on their own — no dashboard access required — and the credential lands back on their profile automatically.
Telegram connect flow in the SDKs — @novu/js and @novu/react now expose the Telegram subscriber-link onboarding (deep link/QR, connection polling and expiry handling) so you don't have to build it yourself. Read More
Improvements (8)
Actor variables in the workflow editor — use {{actor.firstName}}, {{actor.email}}, {{actor.subscriberId}} and more directly in step content on the new dashboard.
Ask AI now opens the docs assistant — the Command-K “Ask AI” action takes you straight to the Novu docs assistant for better answers.
Contexts is out of beta — the Contexts page is now generally available.
CLI connect matches the dashboard — npx novu connect now mirrors the dashboard's runtime grouping, and --runtime ai-sdk scaffolds a real AI SDK project.
Smoother agent channel onboarding — the channel picker opens on the first click, copy was standardized to “channel,” and connected agents get a guided “What's next” section.
Cleaner agent conversation timeline — managed and self-hosted agents now show the same flat, human-readable audit trail.
Zero-downtime API key rotation — create a second secret key, migrate your apps over, then delete the old one — rotate keys without any downtime.
Microsoft Teams multi-tenant distribution — distribute your Teams agent across tenants, with a Teams-specific subscriber-rollout onboarding guide.
Fixes (9)
Workflow editor — switching to the HTTP request step via the breadcrumb no longer crashes the page.
Digest — monthly digests with valid days are no longer incorrectly rejected.
Workflows — the worker no longer crashes on legacy IN / NOT_IN step filters (common with webhook-based conditions).
Email — new-dashboard workflows using an email step with an email-webhook integration now send the content field instead of an empty body.
Inbox — the unread badge stays in sync after mark-as-read and mark-all-as-read, and sub-minute timestamps like “Just now” are now localized.
Inbox integration — clicking a production In-App integration card opens its config drawer (with the HMAC toggle) instead of the onboarding wizard, and the signed-out inbox embed link now redirects to sign in instead of showing a blank screen.
SendGrid — activity tracking captures every event when SendGrid batches them, fixing missing or duplicate message.seen / message.delivered events and outbound webhooks.
SMS — the AfricasTalking provider works again after a fix to its provider id.
Self-hosted email — custom-domain email delivery and inbound mail replies work on self-hosted enterprise.
Connect Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, and other MCP clients to Novu with OAuth - no API key to copy, your organization picked up automatically on sign-in.
The Novu MCP Server now supports OAuth for Novu Cloud. Point your AI client at the MCP URL, approve the sign-in prompt on first use, and you're connected — no secret key to copy, paste, or rotate.
OAuth is the recommended path for interactive clients like Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code, and ChatGPT. API keys still work as a fallback for clients without remote OAuth, autonomous agents, and self-hosted Novu.
Bring your Chat SDK agent to Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, Telegram, and email: deliver multi-channel notifications from one trigger, resolve every channel to one unified subscriber, and drop in React connect components to put channels in front of your end-customers.
The @novu/chat-sdk-adapter is now available. Wire it into your Chat SDK app and Novu manages credentials, identity, and delivery across Slack, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, Telegram, and email.
Define a workflow once in Novu with the channels you want, then fire a single trigger from any handler. Novu fans out to every step — Slack, email, WhatsApp, and more — and routes replies back through the same agent loop, so proactive notifications and conversational replies share one handler set.
const ctx = getNovuContext(thread);// One trigger delivers to every channel in the workflow.await ctx.trigger("order-shipped", { payload: { orderId: "1234", trackingUrl: "https://example.com/track/1234" },});
Every channel resolves to a single Novu subscriber mapped to your own user, so your agent always knows who it's talking to — with email, phone, locale, custom data, and the canonical conversation history available inside any handler.
Drop the prebuilt SlackConnectButton from @novu/react into your app so your end-customers can install and connect their own Slack workspace to your agent — OAuth, credentials, and Slack Connect handled by Novu. Microsoft Teams and Telegram connect buttons are in pre-release.
import { SlackConnectButton } from '@novu/react';<SlackConnectButton integrationIdentifier={integrationIdentifier} connectionIdentifier={`${subscriberId}:${integrationIdentifier}:${agent.identifier}`} connectionMode="subscriber" connectLabel={`Install ${agent.name} ↗`} connectedLabel="Connected to Slack" onConnectSuccess={handleSlackOAuthSuccess}/>
Connecting external MCPs is now part of the conversation itself, instead of a separate setup step. When an agent needs access to a tool, it can prompt the user to connect it right at that moment and then continue the original request once access is granted. This makes the experience feel much more natural and reduces the friction of getting started with tool-powered workflows.
We also introduced session-level tool access, so connected tools are available only where they are relevant. That gives users a clearer sense of control over what an agent can use during a conversation, while helping keep tool usage focused on the task at hand.
We also improved how conversations behave when several messages arrive quickly. Messages are now processed in order, one at a time, instead of competing in parallel. This creates a more predictable experience in fast-moving chats and helps reduce confusing or out-of-sequence responses.
Each queued message gets its own ⏳ indicator, and the indicator is removed when the message is processed.
Connect your AI agent to every channel your users already use, Slack, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, Telegram, and email, through one API. One agent, one synced conversation, live in minutes.
Author:
Dima Grossman
Your AI agent can think. Now it can talk.
Novu Connect is live: the communication layer for AI agents. One agent, every channel your users already use, held together in one synced conversation, through a single API. You bring the agent. Connect handles identity, threading, and delivery.
Every wave of AI infrastructure solved one connection. MCP connected agents to tools. A2A connected agents to other agents. ACI connects agents to people.
Agent Communication Infrastructure is the layer that lets an agent hold a real, two-way conversation with humans on the channels they already use. Novu Connect is the first ACI layer. Learn about the category.
The ACI stack: communication channels, the Novu bridge, and your agent's brain.
The hard part was never connecting a single channel. It was keeping one conversation coherent across all of them.
Picture it: a user starts in Slack this morning, follows up from WhatsApp at lunch, and closes the loop by email tonight. To your agent, it is one thread. Same memory, same context. They never repeat themselves.
One synced conversation per user, across every channel.
That is the part that single-channel connectors cannot do. Identity resolution and threading are handled for you, so the conversation follows your user across channels.
2. Agent-first. Paste a prompt where your agent already lives: "Add an agent to my app https://novu.co/agents.md". Sixty seconds later, your agent is live on a real channel, no account or API key required.
3. Dashboard. Set it up visually in the Novu dashboard.
The agent logic stays yours. Bring Claude or your own code, and Connect carries it across every channel. We never run your agent's brain. Claude Managed agents are supported out of the box, on a free tier.
Bring your own code or model through the unified conversational API.
Connect runs on the same delivery infrastructure behind your Novu notifications. No new stack, no migration. The one shift: it carries two-way agent conversations, not just the outbound messages you already send.
Connect your first agent at novu.co/connect. This is day one, with more agent runtimes and channels on the way.
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