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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Retool released some updates and improvements to the Assist experience:

• You can now prompt Assist to write a README for your app. When you're editing an existing app, Assist can also use information from existing READMEs to learn about the app context and improve the quality of changes.
• Assist automatically names apps. When you use Assist to create a new app from a blank canvas, Assist provides a descriptive name.

These changes are live on Retool Cloud. Refer to the edge release notes for information about what features are available to self-hosted organizations.

Retool is excited to announce Assist, your AI-powered partner for app development. Prompt Assist with natural language directly from the app IDE to generate apps, make changes to existing apps, and ask questions about Retool.

Assist can:

• Generate full-stack apps from a prompt using your live production data. Retool scaffolds apps based on your real databases and resources.
• Respect all existing org policies by default—SSO, role-based access control, and data-level permissions. Apps remain secure and access-controlled without any manual configuration.
• Edit components, queries, and styles of your existing apps.
• Answer questions about an existing app, including about the purpose of the app and how it works. Assist can also answer questions about Retool in general.
• Deploy AI-generated apps to production without leaving Retool. Hosting, versioning, and monitoring are built-in for cloud and self-hosted deployments.