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Updates, changes, and improvements at Retool.

Refer to the stable and edge release notes for detailed information about self-hosted releases.

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Ask and Build mode with Assist

Retool now supports two modes for prompting with Assist: Ask and Build. Use Ask as a safe, read-only way to understand and debug your app without adding or changing components or logic, and Build when you’re ready for Assist to make edits.

  • Ask mode: Assist replies with explanations, suggestions, or debugging help. When in Ask mode, Assist cannot modify your app.
  • Build mode: Assist can create and edit components, queries, and logic in response to your prompt.

Both modes use the same understanding of your app, your data, Retool features, and documentation.

Toggle between Ask and Build mode.

Assist defaults to using Build mode. You can switch between modes at any time.

Baseten models updated

Retool added support for DeepSeek-V3.2 in Baseten. DeepSeek-R1 is no longer supported, and DeepSeek-V3.2 will be used instead.

Improvements to writing SQL with Assist

Assist can now more reliably explore large or under-documented SQL database schemas without exceeding LLM context windows. These changes enable Assist to generate higher quality SQL queries for your apps and reduce the likelihood of SQL-related errors.

Customers with simple schemas now benefit from richer context retrieved through exploratory queries, while large enterprises can rely on Assist to navigate massive data lakes.

Improvements to editing with Assist

Retool improved Assist's ability to reason about and plan layout changes for large and complex apps. This change has the following impacts:

  • Improves the quality of layouts when editing medium to large apps. Assist is now better at formatting the spacing and alignment of components.
  • Improves latency when making large edits to UI layout. For example, one layout change that previously took 5 minutes now takes under 1.5 minutes.
  • Improves support for adding header frames.

This change is available on Retool Cloud and will be available in subsequent releases of self-hosted Retool.

Assist supports Azure OpenAI

Retool now supports Azure OpenAI for use with Assist. Admins on the Enterprise plan can configure Assist to use Azure OpenAI as the single model provider for Assist-powered interactions.

To enable the use of Azure OpenAI as a single model provider, reach out to your account manager.

Retool designed Assist to use two AI providers by default: OpenAI and Anthropic. Using both providers enables Assist to optimize for speed and quality. However, some customers may need to consolidate AI services with a single provider. To accommodate these customers, Enterprise organizations can configure Assist to work with a single provider.