New features, improvements, and fixes in every release.
This is the latest Insiders / Beta build. Stable remains v1.106.80.
Cortex now lets you publish an HTML preview to an unlisted public link (live.withcortex.ai). Anyone with the URL can view the page — no sign-in, no public gallery. Republish to update the same link, or unpublish to take it down. Recipients can choose Edit in Cortex to open a local copy; that copy stays unpublished until they publish it themselves.
Cortex now lets you share a skill with an unlisted link (skills.withcortex.ai). Recipients can install it without signing in. It lands in their Skills library; if a skill with the same name already exists, they can replace it, keep both, or cancel.
Directory now works like a contact book: search, pin, keyboard navigation, a duty note on each Assistant, and restore of the last Assistant you had open.
Cortex now keeps your computer from idle-sleeping while a chat or agent task is in progress, so walking away no longer drops a long run. The display can still turn off; closing a laptop lid may still sleep.
.docx and .pdf opening as a binary page after a cold startThis release is on the Insiders / Beta channel. Stable users stay on v1.106.80 until this build is promoted.
Directory now works like a contact book. Search and pin Assistants, add a duty note, move with the keyboard, and come back to the last Assistant you had open.
This is the stable release for everyday use. Insiders and Beta users can also try v1.106.81, which adds Assistants Directory.
New desktop installs walk you through language, sign-in, personalization, creating your first Assistant, and a short chat guide. Finish personalizing on the web and Cortex carries that first task into the desktop tour — no extra setup screens in between.
Output templates are now skill packages. Give them a display name, keep them next to your other skills, and reuse them without hunting through a separate templates folder.
Cortex now reads PDFs, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as text you can search and work with, and can take more than one step at a time on document-heavy tasks.