Release on September 22, 2026

Release

Areas Affected

AI Assistant, Change Orders

Highlights

• Introduced a new AI assistant in Ernest to help users get information and complete tasks faster through natural conversation.

What Changed

• Introduced a new AI assistant within Ernest that users can interact with to get information and complete tasks more efficiently. (Ticket)
• Fixed an issue that could cause errors when using the AI assistant to work with Change Orders. (Ticket)

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Hotfixes Since Last Release

These fixes were deployed to production independently before this release — they are listed here for a complete record of what changed since the previous release.

No hotfixes since the last release.

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Chores

• Sync ernest-api distribution-groups routes (#501) (PR)
• Publish MCP coverage report to product.shackleton.ai (#505) (PR)
• Track ENDPOINT_REGISTRY coverage against ernest-api's MCP-tagged routes (#444) (PR)
• mcp sync improvements (#508) (PR)
• Sync ernest-api RFI routes (#492) (PR)