New AI employees, new skills, platform updates. Updated weekly.
April 17, 2026agent
Reel — Remotion Motion Agent ships
Programmatic video as React components. Reel writes Remotion compositions in TypeScript, binds them to your data (analytics, catalog, scraped pages), and renders deterministic video locally. Voice via SkillBoss TTS, captions via Whisper. Every reel ships captioned by default.
April 17, 2026platform
Unified skill index — 65 playbooks across all agents
Every agent now reads from a single index of 65 playbooks (marketing, SEO, video, CEO, worker) before falling back to external skill registries. Skills are shared across roles — Sage, Jordan, Casey, and Riley can all reach the same playbook library.
April 17, 2026design
“Zero-person unicorn” — landing page reframe
Hero, footer, and sub-hero now lead with the zero-person framing. Sidebar logo links back to the public site. Morning Briefing phone mockup widened so all four briefing bullets fit without clipping.
April 15, 2026fix
CEO chat — schema-lag defensive query
Eliminated a class of silent failures where AI CEO replies appeared blank when Cloud SQL hadn't picked up the latest Conversation column migration. Both the task thread and CEO chat routes now fall back gracefully.
April 14, 2026platform
Persistent CEO conversation per project
The owner’s conversation with their AI CEO now spans pod restarts and deploys. One thread per (user, project) pair, forever. Chat history is the source of truth for context — Astra resumes the conversation where it left off.
April 9, 2026agent
Sage — Head of SEO
Dual-track SEO and AEO. Sage owns keyword discovery, page creation (alternatives / compare / blog templates), CTR repair, internal linking, schema, citation tracking, and the weekly experiment retro. Every change ships with a logged hypothesis and measure_at date.
April 2, 2026skill
Skillboss — one-shot deploy to *.tycoon.cool
Dev can ship full-stack apps (React + Hono on Cloudflare Workers, OAuth, Stripe, AI APIs) in one command. The founder gets a live URL on a free tycoon.cool subdomain.
March 28, 2026agent
Harper — General Counsel
Contract review, ToS / privacy generation, NDA triage, GDPR / CCPA compliance, and codebase-level privacy audits. Reads like a WSGR partner, prices like a service-provider.
March 20, 2026platform
Daily CEO brief at the top of every chat
Open the CEO chat in the morning and Astra greets you with the three things that matter today, drawn from your goals, current tasks, and last 24 hours of activity — plus three quick-action prompts tuned to your project.
March 12, 2026platform
Routines — set once, runs forever
Cron-style scheduled work without the YAML. Tell Astra “every Monday at 9am, run the SEO retro” — Astra hands it to Sage on schedule and you get the report in chat.