August 2026: Session Memory, Workflow Releases, and Team Roles

August 2026: Session Memory, Workflow Releases, and Team Roles

August focused on making AI products safer to change and easier to run as a team. We shipped session memory so chatbots can hold a real conversation, a Draft and Live release flow for workflows, organization roles with project protection, and one-click workflow import and export.

Chatbot session memory

Chatbots can now remember a conversation across turns without you storing the history yourself. Enable Session memory in a workflow's Advanced settings, and ModelRiver groups requests into a session. Send back the session_id from the first response, and the server merges recent history and a rolling summary automatically.

What shipped:

  • Automatic conversation memory with recent history plus a rolling summary
  • Sessions view under Logs → Sessions to inspect, filter, and delete conversations
  • Per-turn cost breakdown so you can see what each conversation actually costs
  • Support across sync, streaming, async, and OpenAI-compatible request paths
  • A ready-to-use Session Memory Chatbot template

Read Session memory for the request fields and build a chatbot with memory for a full walkthrough.

Workflow releases: Draft, Live, and History

Workflows now separate the configuration you are working on from the one your users receive. Save edits to a Draft without touching production, then Publish a new Live version when you are ready.

What shipped:

  • Draft and Live workflow versions with an immutable revision History
  • A Diff vs Live view comparing the workflow side by side and as field-level JSON
  • Rollback to an earlier revision, and restore-as-draft to reuse an old version
  • Dependency pinning so a workflow calling another workflow records the exact version it was reviewed with
  • The Playground can run Draft, Live, or a specific historical revision

Read Release a workflow for the full flow, including publish warnings and rollback guidance.

Organization roles and project protection

You can now control who can change what. Four organization roles — Owner, Admin, Editor, and Viewer — replace a single flat permission, and the team members page is now a clean table UI.

Project protection lets Owners and Admins lock critical projects so Editors cannot change API keys, workflows, structured outputs, webhooks, or delete sessions, while still being able to test in the Playground.

Read Organization roles and project protection for the full capability table.

Workflow import and export

Move workflows, structured outputs, and backend-pipeline links between projects with a versioned JSON bundle. Export any workflow or structured output from its row menu, then import into another project with a live preview that checks providers, models, names, and schemas before you confirm. Imports are all-or-nothing, so a conflict never creates a half-finished setup. Exports never include credentials, API keys, or logs.

Read Import and export workflows for the format and limits.

Ready-made workflow templates

We added 12 workflow templates covering common AI use cases — from support triage and lead qualification to billing and refund assistants. Each template has its own detail page with model customization and a matching docs guide with code tabs, so you can start from a working example instead of a blank editor.

Browse templates from the workflow templates section.

Contact and team inquiry pages

We added public contact and teams pages so companies can reach out directly, and we follow up quickly on every submission.

Model catalog refresh

We refreshed the seeded provider catalog to current releases:

  • xAI: added grok-4.6
  • Amazon Bedrock: added Nova 2 Lite (us.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0)
  • Mistral: removed deprecated Devstral and Magistral models and corrected context windows for current models

Also this month

We added a prebuilt AI Agent command section to the docs overview and getting-started pages so teams can try agent-style workflows faster.