Hello Everyone! My name is Mike, I’m a fullstack dev. Most of my professional work has been with third-party development companies, so I thought this would be a great opportunity for me to help out the community! My primary skills are with PERN/MERN stacks, as well as Flask backends and Unity development, with React being my strongest skill. I would love to start contributing and am still familiarizing myself with the Archestra platform. If anyone has something important that needs a set of eyes on it, please do not hesitate to reach out!

Found a small ChatOps issue, not sure if it's intended: if a Slack message contains a >, the agent only receives the text after the > and the front half gets silently dropped before it reaches the LLM (when the prefix isn't a real agent name).

Created an issue with details: #5747

What’s new in Archestra: from v1.2.62 to v1.2.71 🚀

We shipped quite a lot over the past 2 weeks, so here’s a roundup of the most notable changes.

:speech_balloon: Chat & agents

• GitHub Copilot is now a supported LLM provider: route Copilot models through Archestra with the usual virtual keys, cost limits and policies (#5539)

• Agent lifecycle hooks: run your own scripts at chat lifecycle events (SessionStart / PreToolUse / PostToolUse) inside the conversation sandbox, Claude-Code style (#5424)

• Context window visualizer: click the context indicator in chat to see exactly what’s filling the model’s context, with an estimated per-turn cost (#5260)

• MCP elicitation pass-through: gateway tools can now prompt the caller for input mid-call (#5494)

🔧 Connectors & messaging

• New Perforce (Helix Core) knowledge connector (#5503)

• MS Teams replies to any message in a thread it was mentioned in, plus file/image upload in 1:1 chats (#5470)

• Slack sticky-thread auto-reply (#5490)

• Rebuilt client connection setup: step-by-step wizard, one-command setup, Windows PowerShell scripts (the new connection page itself is in beta) (#5516)

🔓 Teams, security & enterprise auth

• Team roles: first-class admin/member roles per team, reworked team management, cleaner invite signup (#5425)

• Tighter network controls: per-environment sandbox egress, plus egress policy enforced on remote MCP servers (#5682)

• Enterprise OAuth: client-credentials and authorization_code grants for MCP gateways and LLM OAuth clients (#5632)

:archestra-love: In beta:

• MCP Apps: build, run and share your own apps right in chat, ARCHESTRAAPPSENABLED (#5437)

• Projects + My Files: group chats into projects, with a persistent file system on the sandbox, ARCHESTRAPROJECTSENABLED (#5599)

Full notes: https://github.com/archestra-ai/archestra/releases

Very cool ^^

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