Retool Agents is now in public beta on Self-hosted Retool 3.234.0.

To enable Retool Agents in Self-hosted Retool 3.234.0 and later, the AGENTS_ENABLED environment variable must be set to true.

A preview release of Retool Agents is currently available to self-hosted organizations for deployment into a non-production environment. This preview release is intended to allow customers to preview and create proof-of-concepts that show how agents may work in their environment.

As Retool is continuously working to develop and improve Retool Agents to meet the high standards required for production environments, this preview release is not intended for production use and this build should not be deployed in an existing Retool installation or deployment. Retool recommends that self-hosted organizations create a new deployment in a private network alongside resources to which you intend to connect. Retool reserves the right to make changes to the agents preview without notification.

Retool Agents makes it simple for builders to automate work using large-language models (LLMs) by creating agents. Agents are systems that can complete or delegate tasks based on LLM reasoning.

Agents call tools—for example, workflows, functions, or other agents—to gather information and complete or delegate actions. When invoked, an agent:

1. Receives a task, or input, as natural language. Tasks are provided as input to agents via written instructions.
2. Uses an LLM to decide whether to respond to the input, get more information, or take action in another system.
3. Provides the result of the tool call back to the LLM, and the LLM reasons in an open-ended cycle called an agentic loop without a pre-defined stopping point.
4. Finally, the agent responds to your original message or question once it reaches a conclusion.

You can invoke an agent using any of the following trigger methods:

• The built-in chat experience in Retool Agents.
• Sending an email to the agent.
• The Agent Chat component in apps.
• The Invoke Agent block in workflows.

You can then test, deploy, evaluate, and monitor your agent directly from Retool.

Retool now supports an integration to the Tavily Search API. Use this integration to perform either general or news-specific web searches. You can choose to provide your own Tavily API key if you do not want to be subject to Retool's rate limits (100 calls per 24 hours) on Tavily.

Retool now supports an integration to the Google Calendar API. Use this integration in combination with the Calendar or Timeline components to interact with calendars and events.

Refer to the Calendar guide for information on how to use this resource with the Calendar component.

Retool now supports an integration to Google Docs, which utilizes the Google Docs API and the Google Drive API. Use this integration to retrieve, create, and update documents.

Retool can record user behavior and interactions with apps using Fullstory. When enabled, data about user interactions with apps are reported directly to Fullstory for you to review in detail. You can then analyze app analytics, evaluate impact, and review interactions with session replay. This integration is useful for monitoring user activity across different apps, and using advanced analytical tools like heatmaps and funnels to identify usage patterns, debug errors, and improve the overall user experience.

Multi-step functions are now generally available in Retool Workflows on Retool Cloud and on self-hosted organizations. They operate as self-contained workflows with optional parameters.

Multi-step functions improve the Workflows experience in several key areas:

• Isolating complex operations with many steps.
• Enabling nested looping, replacing the need for multiple subsequent Loop blocks operating on the same piece of data.
• Eliminating the need to call a workflow from within another, therefore decreasing the number of billable workflow runs.
• Enabling builders to reuse blocks of code within a single workflow.

You can now connect your organization to Sentry and Datadog for workflow error monitoring and event logging.

To set up error reporting, go to the Settings and navigate to Configuration > Observability. Enter your Sentry and Datadog credentials to emit workflow errors and run events to either or both providers.

Connecting to external observability providers is especially useful for your organization if:

• You have a high volume of workflow runs that your organization would prefer to monitor systematically, outside of the workflows run panel UI.
• Your organization is on Retool Cloud and you want to retain a record of workflow run events beyond the 90 day retention period.

An improved version of the Scanner component for Retool Mobile is currently in private beta on Retool Cloud and on Self-hosted Retool 3.173.0 or later.

This includes:

• The ability to restrict or select from multiple barcode symbologies to scan.
• The ability to select between Manual or Automatic scan modes.
• While scanning from the native app, there is a visual indication of what is being scanned (a bounding box) when hovering over a barcode, as well as a checkmark when a scan is successful.
• Scanner V2 does not have the autoClose property.