2026 AG Studio Launch Week

AG Grid shipped AG Studio 3, adding a Calculations UI, full canvas Undo & Redo, Server-side Pagination, and the new Studio Agent Framework, as part of its 2026 AG Studio Launch Week. The company also released the AG Studio Figma Design System and reported that its data engine is 28.4x faster since v1.0.0 by reordering query plans so cross-filters apply before a join, alongside a new Discord server and a hackathon announced with PayPal.

Launch Week wraps today. What a week it’s been We've packed so much in: a new major AG Studio version, a Figma design system, the Studio Agent Framework, a 28x faster data engine, a Discord server, and announced a hackathon with PayPal. Plus, a whole load of events. There's a lot to cover, so here’s a quick summary… 🔥 Release: AG Studio 3, dashboards for humans and AI AG Studio 3 shipped https://www.ag-grid.com/blog/ag-studio-3-is-here-dashboards-for-humans-and-ai/ with a Calculations UI, full canvas Undo & Redo, Server-side Pagination, and the new Studio Agent Framework. 🔥 Release: Introducing the AG Studio Agent Framework Josh Hobson, our engineer behind the framework https://www.ag-grid.com/blog/introducing-the-ag-studio-agent-framework/ , walks through the thinking that shaped it: why bundling your harness with a model vendor is a trap, how Agents and Users end up with equal power in Studio, and why "just don't give the LLM tools it shouldn't have" beats prompting an agent not to misbehave. 🔥 Release: Introducing AG Studio Figma Design System Mark Durrant, who leads Design at AG Grid, gives us an overview of AG Studio Figma Design System https://www.ag-grid.com/blog/introducing-ag-studio-figma-design-system/ , which ships light and dark themes as variable modes, uses Figma's new slots to keep panel components flexible, and the variable names map 1:1 to AG Studio's theming API, so a colour change in Figma means exactly the same thing in code. 🔷 Perspective: Who Owns the Harness? Josh Hobson again, this time zooming out from AG Studio entirely to ask a question we think matters a lot right now: who should own your agent harness https://www.ag-grid.com/blog/who-owns-the-harness/ , the model provider, the product, or the user? 🔷 Perspective: From Embedded Dashboards to Programmable Analytics Michael Romey, who heads up Business Systems at LAIKA, wrote about programmable analytics https://www.ag-grid.com/blog/from-embedded-dashboards-to-programmable-analytics/ : how once an application can define a dashboard in code, AI is no longer a chatbot bolted onto a report and becomes another way to decide what the application should build. 🔷 Engineering deep dive: Adventures in Data Engine Optimisation Steph Meslin-Weber, AG Studio's data engine engineer, wrote up how it got 28.4x faster since v1.0.0 https://www.ag-grid.com/blog/adventures-in-data-engine-optimisation/ by reordering query plans so cross-filters get applied before a join instead of after, and custom memory arenas and pools. Powerful stuff 🔷 Deep dive: Grids + Charts = Dashboards James Swinton-Bland built the same dashboard twice https://www.ag-grid.com/blog/grids-charts-dashboards/ : by hand and in AG Studio in just 30 lines to show exactly where a hand-rolled dashboarding framework costs you. 🔷 How-to: 1 prompt, 88 seconds: I added a new chart type to AG Studio dashboard Adam Wang, Technical Product Manager for AG Studio, vibe-coded a brand new AG Charts quadrant chart into a live AG Studio dashboard https://www.ag-grid.com/blog/1-prompt-88-seconds-i-added-a-new-chart-type-to-ag-studio-dashboard/ in 88 seconds flat, one prompt – yup, any custom widget hooks in with just a typed component and a registry entry. 🔷 Tinkering: WebMCP in AG Studio Dashboards Yet more from Josh Hobson with a piece on WebMCP https://www.ag-grid.com/blog/webmcp-in-ag-studio-dashboards/ , the emerging protocol bringing MCP-style tools into the browser, showing a live AG Studio dashboard built and queried entirely by a WebMCP-enabled agent that brings its own tokens instead of costing you any. 🥹 Community: Meet us on Discord We've wanted this for a while: AG Grid finally has a Discord https://discord.gg/wzFQDBY6Gg for AMAs, office hours, early event announcements, ticket giveaways, pet pictures, and everything else that isn't a bug report or feature request GitHub https://github.com/ag-grid/ag-grid/issues , and Zendesk https://ag-grid.zendesk.com/ for enterprise users, still handle those . 🥹 Workshop: AG Studio x Information is Beautiful We invited David McCandless of Information is Beautiful yes, the man himself to lead a workshop on data visualisation to a crowd of fifty engineers, data analysts and designers. 🥹 Recorded session: Self-service dashboards. 30 lines of code Watch a data analyst and an engineer rebuild the same dashboard twice https://app.livestorm.co/ag-grid/self-service-dashboards-30-lines-of-code , once by hand-wiring AG Grid and AG Charts, once in AG Studio, so you can see exactly what changes when the requirements shift. Definitely worth a watch. 👾 Hackathon: PayPal and AG Studio We close out the week by opening submissions for Build What's Next with AI + PayPal https://www.ag-grid.com/blog/hackathon-paypal-and-ag-studio/ , a six-week hackathon where AG Grid and Bryntum are event partners, and we've got own prize categories: Best Use of AG Studio and Best Use of Bryntum 🔥 Thank you None of this happens without the people who actually showed up this week: our amazing Engineers and Designers, everyone who joined Discord https://discord.gg/wzFQDBY6Gg , everyone who asked inquisitive questions during the live sessions, or just read one of these posts all the way through. Thank you for building with us. We can't wait to see what you build next 💙