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What Shipped in August: New Distill Technology, Context Gets a Guided Setup

PromptOwl shipped new Distill technology in August that turns raw documents into ready-to-use AI context, alongside a guided Magic Context Builder for knowledge-base setup, per the PromptOwl Product Team. The release also added public document publishing with access controls, a Kanban-style board view for organizing a Nest, and performance improvements across Community Nest. PromptOwl said the latest Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok models are now available when setting up an agent.

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What Shipped in August: New Distill Technology, Context Gets a Guided Setup
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August shipped new Distill technology for turning raw docs into ready-to-use AI context, a guided builder for your knowledge base, a way to publish documents publicly, a Kanban-style board for organizing a Nest, and a Community Nest that's noticeably faster everywhere you look.

New Distill Technology #

Distill turns raw documents into ready-to-use AI context. Point it at what you've already written β€” policies, wikis, transcripts, whatever you've got β€” and it generates the structured context your agents work from, built directly into PromptOwl.

Context Gets a Guided Setup #

Magic Context Builder walks you through setting up your knowledge base the same way Magic Agent Builder walks you through building an agent β€” answer a few questions, and it handles the setup.

Publish a Document, on Your Terms #

Turn any document into its own public page. Choose who can see it β€” open to anyone, gated by a shared code, an email link, or an invite list β€” and revoke access or check who's viewed it, anytime.

Everything Loads Faster #

Performance improvements across Community Nest speed up your requests, sharpen accuracy, and manage your context window better β€” so an agent works with what matters, not everything it could technically reach.

See Your Nest as a Board #

A Kanban-style board view for your nest β€” organize documents into columns you define and reorder, with the full width of the page to work with instead of a cramped sidebar list.

The Small Wins That Add Up #

  • More models to choose from β€” the latest Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok models are available when you set up an agent.
  • Community Nest loads automatically as an embedded sidebar β€” no separate step to open it.
  • Connecting an agent to a Community Nest is a single step.
  • Multiple API keys per account.
  • Shared content goes through a review and approve workflow , with a reason attached if it's turned down.
  • Request a document or nest deletion and get a clear approve-or-reject answer, instead of it just vanishing β€” or not.
  • Search lives in the header now , plus a dashboard-wide search across every nest you have, with a preview of the matching text.
  • See your own drafts in one place instead of losing track of them.
  • Owl Desktop: chat supports image attachments β€” attach, drag-and-drop, or paste.

That's August: Distill built in, a guided path for your context, documents you can publish on your terms, a board to organize it all, and a Nest that moves noticeably faster.

Published September 5, 2026 Β· PromptOwl Product Team

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