Changelog Update

Pods — A Shared Workspace for Your Team and Your Agents

🎯 What is it?

Pods are dedicated collaborative spaces where your team and your agents work together on a shared initiative. Each Pod brings Conversations, Files, and Tasks into one place — continuously indexed so that agents build on what was already discussed, without you having to re-explain context every time.

💡 Why is it useful?

Work in most teams is fragmented: conversations are scattered across individual feeds, files live in different tools, and every new interaction starts from scratch. Pods solve this by making context persistent and shared — so the next conversation starts smarter than the last, and nothing gets lost between sessions.

⚙️ How does it work?

When you create a Pod, you get a shared environment with four core components:

Conversations — All threads related to the initiative stay in one place, and are continuously indexed so agents can reference past decisions automatically.
Files — Upload documents or connect Company Data directly into the Pod. Everyone — humans and agents — works from the same shared context.
Tasks — Create to-dos, assign them to teammates, or launch agent-run task conversations with the right context preloaded.
Governance — Pods can be open (anyone in the workspace can join) or invite-only (editors manage membership). Restricted data sources go through an approval step before results are visible to the whole Pod. Workspace admins can also limit Pod creation to invite-only if needed.

✨ Concrete Use Cases

Here's how you could use it:

Running a client project: Create a Pod for the account, add the relevant files and data sources, and let your agents reuse every past decision and conversation thread — no more copy-pasting context into each new chat.

Managing a recurring initiative: Use Tasks to assign work to teammates or trigger agent-run conversations at the right moment, with all the background knowledge already loaded in the Pod.

📈 Benefits for you

No more context re-pasting — agents remember what was discussed and build on it automatically.
One place for everything — files, conversations, and tasks are co-located and shared across your team.
Agents as true teammates — they can read files, reference past conversations, create and update tasks, and manage Pod members, just like a human collaborator would.
Flexible permissions — open collaboration or controlled access, depending on what your initiative requires.

🚀 How to access it?

Pods are available to everyone — no feature flag, no opt-in required. Look for the Pods section in your Dust sidebar. You can create a new Pod directly from there, and the documentation is available at docs.dust.tt/update/docs/pods-overview.