Version 1.173.85 Release Note
Since 1.156.85, AB has focused on three things: making AI assistants noticeably more useful at running your tasks for you, sharpening the task pages people stare at every day, and ironing out the small quirks that surfaced after the big Team-page release. None of these are flashy on their own — together they make the day-to-day a lot smoother.
Smarter AI Workflows
The MCP connector that links AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex, and Antigravity to AB has grown up. The biggest change is that an assistant can now actually finish a task discussion without dragging you into the loop:
- Read the comment thread. When you ask the assistant to act on a reopened task with feedback, it can read the feedback. Comments come back inline with the task, so no more "please paste the comment text" ping-pong.
- See human-readable status. Status, type, and environment are returned as their actual names ("In Progress", "Bug", "Production") instead of opaque IDs — the assistant can talk about your task in plain English.
- Rename and rewrite. Tasks created with placeholder titles like
tasks/LoginWithIntentcan be renamed to something readable ("Role-Based Post-Login Redirect") without you opening the web UI. Description rewrites are supported too. - Create subtasks. The assistant can break a big task into a parent + children in one go — the parent's "has subtasks" flag flips automatically so the breakdown shows up on the detail page right away.
- Markdown descriptions render. When the assistant writes a description with
**bold**,### headings, or bullet lists, the task page now renders it as proper formatting instead of showing the raw syntax.
On top of that, every channel message posted by the AI on your behalf now reads "🤖 Sho: Updated status · via MCP" — the actor is unambiguous, and comments correctly thread under the task they belong to instead of an old root message.
Clearer Task Pages
- Visible task ID on Adaptive Cards. Channel cards now show "AB · 747" right above the title — subtle prefix, accent-coloured number, large enough to spot in a busy channel. Conversations like "can you take 747?" finally have a visible target.
- Subtasks section gets a real header. What used to be a bare list at the bottom of the task detail is now a labelled section with an icon, a count, an inline progress indicator ("2 of 5 done · 40%"), and a one-click + button. Tasks with no subtasks now show a friendly empty state inviting you to break the work down — previously the section was just invisible, and the "Add subtask" affordance was hidden inside the kebab menu.
- Markdown task descriptions. The same Markdown rendering that helps AI-written tasks also works for any pasted-in markdown content — tables, autolinks, and footnotes all work.
- Default 1-hour estimate. New tasks default to 1 h instead of 0 h, so workload metrics stop under-counting unedited tasks.
Cross-Platform Reliability
- iPhone Teams login prompt fixed. Settings and project pages on the iPhone Teams app no longer ask you to sign in — the host detection now correctly recognises mobile Teams, where the iframe trick that worked on desktop didn't apply.
- Project deep links from a 1:1 chat. Clicking a project link from the bot's personal chat used to bounce you through a login prompt when the link opened in a browser; now it resolves silently via your existing Microsoft 365 sign-in.
- Wiki adaptive cards open the right page. Clicking a wiki notification card in a channel jumps directly to the article instead of dropping you on the dashboard.
- Web home → project navigation. Selecting a project from the personal home on the live web now actually opens it — previously the page would stall on "loading" because the user identity wasn't being resolved.
Polish & Quality of Life
- Calendar timezone unification. The schedule and sync-calendar panels now use your browser's IANA zone everywhere — no more JST showing up for users outside Japan, no more "Today / Tomorrow" labels off by a day.
- Project ID on Settings. A muted, copyable Project ID row sits at the bottom of the Project Settings page — useful when you're talking to an AI assistant ("project a457f053-..." beats "the General project" when two projects share a name).
- Wiki: live refresh + filter + cleaner action menu. The Wiki page now polls for changes (with a 15-minute idle timeout and a tab-hidden pause), gives you a quick filter above the document tree, and consolidates per-article actions into a 3-dots menu.
- Antigravity MCP setup. The /mcp page now uses the correct
"serverUrl"JSON key for Antigravity (matching its config schema) instead of the"url"key other clients expect. - Account safety. The MCP connector now checks project membership consistently across every tool — closing a class of inconsistency where one tool would respond and another would reject for the same caller.
As always, AB updates automatically — nothing for you to install. If something looks off after the new version lands for you, the team is only a message away.