🎯 What is it?

When you create a new skill in Dust, the platform now automatically scans your workspace to detect if similar skills already exist. As you write your skill description, AI analyzes it in real-time and alerts you if it finds potential matches, helping you discover skills you could reuse or build upon.

💡 Why is it useful?

Building skills takes time and effort. Without visibility into what already exists, teams often recreate the same automation multiple times—leading to fragmented knowledge, inconsistent results, and wasted time. This feature helps you maintain a clean, organized skill library by surfacing relevant existing work before you start from scratch.

⚙️ How does it work?

As you type your skill description during creation, Dust's AI compares it against all custom skills in your workspace. If it detects similarities, you'll see a notification suggesting existing skills you might want to review or reuse instead.

✨ Concrete Use Cases

Here's how you could use it:

Avoiding duplicates: You're about to create a skill to "Create GitHub issues from meeting notes." Before you finish, Dust alerts you that "GitHub Issue Creator" already exists in your workspace—built by a colleague last month with the exact same purpose.

Building on existing work: You start creating a skill for "Slack notifications on deal closures." Dust surfaces a similar skill called "CRM to Slack Updates" that you can either reuse directly or modify to fit your specific needs.

📈 Benefits for you

• Save time: Reuse existing skills instead of building from scratch

• Maintain consistency: Reduce skill sprawl and duplicate automations across your workspace

• Discover team knowledge: Find expertise and solutions your colleagues have already created

• Keep your workspace organized: No more "Create Report v1, v2, v3" cluttering your skill library

🚀 How to access it?

This feature is automatically active for all builders. Simply start creating a new skill as usual—if similar skills exist, Dust will notify you while you're writing the description. No configuration needed.

🎯 What is it?

Your Gmail integration on Dust can now send emails directly. Previously, Dust could only read, search your Gmail messages and create drafts. Now your assistant can compose and send emails on your behalf through the Gmail tool.

💡 Why is it useful?

This feature addresses one of our most requested capabilities from customers. It enables your Dust assistants to take action on your behalf, not just retrieve information. You can now automate email workflows, draft responses, and send communications without leaving your conversation with Dust.

⚙ How does it work?

Once enabled, your assistant can use the Gmail "send mail" tool to compose and send emails directly from your Gmail account. The assistant will handle the email composition based on your instructions.

✨ Concrete Use Cases

Here's how you could use it:

Automated follow-ups: Ask your assistant to "send a follow-up email to the prospects who haven't responded in the last 7 days" based on your CRM data and email history.

Quick responses: "Draft and send a thank you email to John after our meeting, mentioning the key points we discussed about the Q1 roadmap."

Batch communications: "Send a weekly summary email to my team with the top 5 updates from our project documentation."

📈 Benefits for you

• Save time: Automate routine email tasks and responses

• Stay in flow: Send emails without switching between tools

• Increase efficiency: Let your assistant handle email drafts and sends based on your knowledge and context

🚀 How to access it?

For existing Gmail tool users: This feature is disabled by default to ensure smooth operations. To enable it, go to Spaces > Tools > Gmail > Send Mail and toggle it on.

For new tool setup: If you're installing a new instance of the Gmail tool now, the send mail feature will be enabled by default.

🎯 What is it?

We've upgraded our image generation capabilities to Gemini 3 Pro Image (also known as Nano Banana 2), bringing you significantly higher quality outputs and more creative control. You can now generate images in resolutions up to 4K and include up to 14 reference images in a single composition.

💡 Why is it useful?

Creating high-quality visual content often requires combining multiple references, understanding nuanced creative direction, and producing outputs at professional resolutions. This upgrade addresses these needs by giving you more flexibility and better results when generating or editing images through Dust.

⚙ How does it work?

The new engine processes more complex prompts with better accuracy and allows you to upload up to 14 reference images. These references can be used to edit existing assets or to compose entirely new images by combining multiple visual elements.

✨ Concrete Use Cases

Here's how you could use it:

Marketing Materials: Upload your brand guidelines, product photos, and mood board references (up to 14 images) to generate on-brand marketing visuals in 4K resolution for print and digital campaigns.

Design Iteration: Provide multiple variations of a design concept and use detailed creative instructions to generate refined versions that blend the best elements of your references.

Product Visualization: Combine lifestyle photos, product specifications, and environmental references to create high-resolution product mockups in various settings.

📈 Benefits for you

• Higher quality outputs: 1K to 4K resolution options for professional-grade results

• More creative flexibility: Process complex, nuanced instructions more accurately

• Faster iteration: Combine up to 14 references in one go instead of multiple attempts

• Better consistency: Improved understanding of style and composition requests

🚀 How to access it?

The upgrade is already live in your Dust workspace. Simply use the image generation feature as usual—the new capabilities are automatically available. For inspiration and detailed examples, check out our documentation: https://docs.dust.tt/docs/image-generation

🎯 What is it?

Skills is a new capability that allows you to package instructions, knowledge, and tools into reusable modules. Once created, any agent in your workspace can access these Skills. When you update a Skill, all agents using it automatically benefit from the improvement—no need to manually update each agent.

💡 Why is it useful?

If you're building multiple agents for your team, you've probably noticed yourself copying and pasting the same instructions or configurations over and over. Skills solves this problem by letting you define something once and share it everywhere. It's designed to help builders spread their expertise efficiently and improve the agent-building experience for everyone in your workspace.

⚙ How does it work?

You create a Skill by bundling together specific instructions, relevant knowledge sources, and tools. Once created, any agent can be equipped with that Skill. If you refine or update the Skill later, every agent using it instantly improves.

✨ Concrete Use Cases

Here's how you could use it:

Standardized research methodology: Create a "Market Research" Skill that includes your company's research framework, access to your research databases, and web search tools. Every agent tasked with research will follow the same rigorous process.

Consistent brand voice: Build a "Brand Communication" Skill containing your tone of voice guidelines, brand vocabulary, and approved messaging. All customer-facing agents will automatically maintain your brand standards.

Domain expertise: Package your team's specialized knowledge—like "Financial Analysis," "Legal Compliance," or "Technical Support"—so any agent can leverage expert-level capabilities without you rebuilding the context each time.

📈 Benefits for you

• Save time: Build once, use everywhere—no more duplicating work across agents

• Maintain consistency: Ensure all agents follow the same standards and best practices

• Scale expertise: Share specialized knowledge across your entire workspace

• Effortless updates: Improve all your agents at once by updating a single Skill

🚀 How to access it?

Skills are now available to all builders in your workspace. Check out our documentation to learn how to create and manage Skills: https://docs.dust.tt/docs/skills

• Take any Dust-managed skill (like Create Frames) and make it your own
• Add your branding guidelines, attach specific assets, and include extra instructions
• Access via Manage Skills → find the skill → click ... → Customize skill
• Each team can create their own independent extensions

Agents can now automatically discover and use any toolset available in the workspace without manual configuration in the Agent Builder.

• Agents dynamically find the tools they need when they need them
• Eliminates the need to pre-select specific tools during agent setup
• Provides agents with access to the entire panel of available integrations in one click

• New pre-packaged skill that enables agents to search and query company data sources
• Supports warehouse connections including Snowflake and BigQuery
• Searches across all accessible spaces
• Available on @dust and @deep-dive agents
• Can be added to custom agents from the Agent Builder

• Use / to search and tag specific folders or documents when building a skill
• Agents now get automatic access to referenced content
• Point directly to folders or documents instead of relying on ambiguous references
• Enables specialized, knowledge-grounded skills with precise context

• Add or remove skills from the input bar mid-conversation
• Enable specific capabilities for individual questions without reconfiguring your agent
• Compose capabilities on the fly to create complex custom agents

• UKG Ready MCP integration now available
• Request, view, and manage Paid Time Off (PTO) directly from Dust
• Access PTO balances and submit time-off requests without leaving the platform