January 2026 Summaries

The updates introduce improved agent controls, including the ability to stop responses, queue and edit follow-up messages, review complete Slack or email content before approving actions, and retain longer conversations through automatic compaction. Time-related questions now account for the user’s timezone, while Topics can be filtered by company and display unified People records with company information instead of raw participants. Users can also mark important people or companies as VIPs and assign people to companies directly from company pages. Additional enhancements include Discord image OCR and optional keyword descriptions to help the agent apply keywords appropriately, alongside promotion for Modem, a team-focused tool for automating feedback triage, backlog maintenance, and follow-up workflows.

Modem’s latest updates expand its agent, topic management, integrations, dashboard, and people-management capabilities. The agent now supports natural-language semantic topic search, selectable query date ranges, clearer tool-status labels, scheduled-task queries, approval prompts for write actions, and in-chat feedback submission. Topics can be merged while retaining history and automatically linked to relevant GitHub pull requests, while issue and pull request results appear as interactive cards with status, priority, and metadata. Additional improvements include automatic joining of matching Slack channels, remembered default Linear teams for issue creation, shareable read-only conversation transcripts, a fix for bulk selection on People and Companies pages, smarter profile name enrichment, and personalized onboarding emails for new team members.

The update introduces streamlined authentication and organization onboarding through magic-link invitations, automatic admission rules based on email domains or connected GitHub and Slack memberships, and login pages that remember users’ most recent sign-in method. Agent functionality now includes interactive Linear issue and GitHub pull request cards, improved database-query error explanations, a keyboard shortcut for starting new conversations, and easier access to Scheduled Tasks from the main sidebar. Organization management changes move channel settings into Organization Settings, allow teams to select specific GitHub repositories to monitor, display connected GitHub organization details and subscription counts, and notify owners by email when members join. The announcement also promotes Modem, a tool intended to automate feedback triage, backlog maintenance, and follow-up workflows.