The .39 Release is here, so check out our 5 favorite features

Another release, another reason to clear your afternoon and go play in the SBX. 

The .39 release theme is "oh, that's going to save me so much time!" So, let's get into it, starting from number five and working up to the one we keep telling people about. 

#5 - Co-Pilot Gets Prompt Commands 

Co-Pilot for Automators now supports new prompt commands, and the three worth knowing are Planning Mode, Explain, and support for Automation Cloud Service and API Tasks. 

Planning Mode is the one we wish existed six months ago. You describe what you want to build, and it maps out a clear, editable plan before you write a single action. No more halfway-through realizations that your architecture was wrong from the start. This has vibe coding vibes, all the way! 

Explain does exactly what it sounds like: plain language summaries and step-by-step logic breakdowns for any automation. Incredibly useful when you're inheriting someone else's bot and trying to figure out what on earth they were thinking. 

And now Co-Pilot covers Task Bots, processes, AND API Tasks all from the same interface. Full coverage in one place? Yes, please! 

#4 - Multimodal AI Skills: Text Was Just the Beginning 

AI Skills can now take files and images as input, not just text. 

That means document summarization, information extraction, and image classification are all on the table natively, with the governance and guardrails you'd expect from an enterprise platform. You pick the LLM, you feed it what it needs, and it does the work. 

It's a small change on the surface, but it quietly unlocks a lot of use cases that previously required workarounds or external tooling. 

#3 - Agent Interoperability Is Now GA 

This feature moved from preview to GA in .39, and if you've been watching the broader AI ecosystem, you know why that's worth paying attention to. 

External AI agents and assistants can now securely trigger and interact with Automation Anywhere through the MCP inbound protocol. Your automations and agents are accessible outside the platform via an SSE remote MCP server. Governance, RBAC controls, and compliance are all baked in through the Process Reasoning Engine (PRE). 

Here's the simple version if MCP is new to you: this is about making your Automation Anywhere assets available through conversational interfaces. As multi-agent workflows become more common, this kind of open connectivity stops being a nice-to-have and starts being a requirement. 

#2 - Process Metrics Dashboard Gets Even Better 

Quick show of hands: how many of you actually knew there were dashboards built right into your Control Room homepage? 

If you logged in and went straight to building, fair enough. But they're there, and they cover success and failure trends, process aging, license utilization, AI governance, and general system monitoring all in one view. 

The .39 release brings new enhancements with more detail and deeper insight across the board. The goal is simple: less time guessing what went wrong, more time actually fixing it. One view, complete process health, everything you need. 

Go poke around in there if you haven't already. It’s definitely worth checking out. 

#1 - Split and Merge Flows in Mozart Orchestrator 

Why execute one thing at a time when you can do them all at once? 

Split and Merge lets you break a process into parallel branches that run simultaneously, then merge back together seamlessly to continue. It sounds simple, and it kind of is, which is exactly why it's so useful. 

Parallel execution means your SLAs stop being held hostage by sequential bottlenecks. Instead of waiting for step one to finish before step two even thinks about starting, multiple branches are running simultaneously and your overall process time drops significantly. 

The conditional branching piece is where it gets really flexible. Branches aren't just "run everything at once.” They can be driven by rules and data, so the process is making smart decisions about what runs, when, and under what conditions. That's a meaningful upgrade from rigid linear flows. 

And because everything is distributed more intelligently across automations, devices, and licenses, you're not over-relying on a single resource while others sit idle. The whole system works harder together. 

This is the one we keep bringing up in conversations. Once you start seeing where parallel execution applies, you'll see it everywhere. 

That's the .39 release in five features. Which one are you most excited to dig into? Drop it in the comments. 

And if you want to go deeper on any of these, the .39 Delta Training on Automation Anywhere University has hands-on exercises covering everything in this release.