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Launch17 Jun 2026Featured

ServerDesk is live — a cloud IDE that lives on your server, not ours

ServerDesk opens to the public. Full SFTP/SSH workspace, Monaco editor, terminal, file tree, git sidebar, and Robbie AI all live in one cloud IDE with no local setup required.

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ServerDesk is live — a cloud IDE that lives on your server, not ours
Robbie now spots issues before you ask
AI4 Jul 2026

Robbie now spots issues before you ask

Robbie now spots likely issues before you ask by scanning the existing sanitized workspace snapshot for deterministic signals such as failed commands, unhealthy containers, deployment failures, risky Git changes, and alerting infrastructure state.

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Robbie evidence links now go deeper into the workspace
AI4 Jul 2026

Robbie evidence links now go deeper into the workspace

Robbie provenance links now resolve deeper into terminal output, loaded logs, deployment runs, database query history, metrics alerts, and process rows, while the internal debug panel records whether each jump was exact, section-level, or fallback.

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Robbie now links every answer to the exact evidence
AI4 Jul 2026

Robbie now links every answer to the exact evidence

Robbie can now link answers to exact workspace targets, including files and ranges, selected Git changes, deployment runs, containers, database objects, WordPress installs, and focused metrics sections, while inline citations keep those jumps close to the answer itself.

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Robbie now shows its evidence
AI4 Jul 2026

Robbie now shows its evidence

Robbie answers can now point back to concrete workspace evidence through sanitized provenance anchors, clickable evidence chips, ignored-provider hints, and compact operational timelines, without changing the single AI request flow.

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Robbie now explains why it trusts an answer
AI3 Jul 2026

Robbie now explains why it trusts an answer

Robbie now verifies how it should answer before the single AI request is sent, clustering evidence, flagging contradictions, estimating unsupported-answer risk, and optionally showing a concise trust summary in investigation workflows.

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Robbie now understands live runtime state before it answers
AI2 Jul 2026

Robbie now understands live runtime state before it answers

Robbie now sees deeper runtime infrastructure, database, metrics, and deployment state from the existing workspace UI, with redacted samples, richer invalidation coverage, and an internal debug panel for staging and development.

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Robbie now understands repo state, search intent, and failing diagnostics
AI2 Jul 2026

Robbie now understands repo state, search intent, and failing diagnostics

Robbie now sees richer repository state, search intent and results, and diagnostics context with cache invalidation hooks, secret-aware filtering, and command-failure summaries while keeping the same frontend-to-backend AI contract.

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Robbie now understands more of your active workspace
AI1 Jul 2026

Robbie now understands more of your active workspace

Robbie’s context engine now captures richer Explorer, editor, and terminal state with safer snippets, project markers, command history, provider metadata, truncation signals, and debug inspection support without changing the AI backend contract.

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Robbie V2 starts with a real context engine
AI1 Jul 2026

Robbie V2 starts with a real context engine

Robbie now assembles workspace context through a central context engine with typed providers, caching, provider priorities, conflict tracking, and Studio-aware context without changing the backend AI routing.

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ServerDesk Studio is ready for real browser-project work
Feature1 Jul 2026

ServerDesk Studio is ready for real browser-project work

ServerDesk Studio reaches production quality with stronger template discovery, explicit save and sync recovery states, markdown support, polished share pages, and a safer browser-project workflow from first edit to public fork.

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Create, edit, then save: Untitled files come to ServerDesk
Feature27 Jun 2026

Create, edit, then save: Untitled files come to ServerDesk

Create new files from scratch without a name. When you're ready to save, a Save As dialog prompts for a destination path and filename — then uploads via SFTP.

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Robbie V2: workspace context, conversation history, and file intelligence
AI27 Jun 2026

Robbie V2: workspace context, conversation history, and file intelligence

Robbie gains deep workspace awareness: AiSidebar V2 with three-tab layout, dismissable context chips, 8 file action cards, conversation history, and an AI usage meter.

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Jira inside your IDE — ServerDesk Workspace Intelligence
AI27 Jun 2026

Jira inside your IDE — ServerDesk Workspace Intelligence

Jira tasks surface inside the IDE. Select a task, prepare context, review changes against acceptance criteria, generate commits, and open PRs — all without leaving the editor.

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Meet the AI team behind every ServerDesk workspace
AI27 Jun 2026

Meet the AI team behind every ServerDesk workspace

Ten specialist AI agents — Robbie, Mason, Ava, Dexter, Nina, Oscar, Ellie, Leo, Iris, and Finn — each get a unique SVG icon, colour, and role. They surface in the Robbie panel and on Jira action buttons.

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How we handle unfinished features: premium previews instead of blank pages
Platform27 Jun 2026

How we handle unfinished features: premium previews instead of blank pages

Every unfinished feature in the product now has a polished FeaturePreviewCard instead of a blank page or dead toast. The Labs page surfaces 12 upcoming features with honest In Development / Planned badges.

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