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- Replit Agent becomes available in Slack
Replit announced that Replit Agent is now available in Slack: bring the agent into Slack to work on projects, link connected tools, and get answers in channels.
- Replit Agent can turn on-site feedback-widget notes into build prompts
Replit CEO Amjad Masad says enabling the site feedback widget lets user feedback become prompts for Replit agents to build from, toggled in one control. Primary detail is the X post from @amasad; no separate docs page was re-opened in this run.
- Replit ships ViBench 2.0, a prompt-to-app benchmark where GPT-6.1 Sol takes the lead
Replit CEO Amjad Masad announced ViBench 2.0, a prompt-to-app benchmark, saying GPT 6.1 Sol takes the lead. The benchmark scores are Replit's own and have not been independently verified.
- Replit Cloud Agents can run any codebase and open pull requests from the Replit UX
Replit CEO Amjad Masad says Cloud Agents can now run any codebase and generate pull requests from Replit’s UI, framing the answer to “is Replit built with Replit?” as fully yes for agent-driven PR workflows across repos.
- Replit says anyone can bring ideas into the company codebase with Cloud Agents that open pull requests
Replit says Cloud Agents can turn natural language into a tested pull request so more people can contribute ideas into a company codebase, with engineers still approving the final code. The company says its design team used Replit to ship over 250k lines of code in six months under that review model.
- Replit ships a full Japanese UI for prompts, screen, and outputs
Replit posts that the product is now fully usable in Japanese across the screen, prompts, and outputs, and shares a Japan-launch promo video of Tokyo streets from ambassador Minsang.
- Replit posts This Week in Replit: Atlas, chat sharing, skills, Government, security, Monitoring Agent
Replit’s weekly roundup covers Stripe Atlas incorporation via the Stripe MCP, chat and asset sharing, turning workflows into reusable skills, Replit for Government, a third-party security patch pass, and Monitoring Agent with auto-fix and auto-republish.
- Replit says Chroma is joining Replit to build the context layer for agents
Replit announces that Chroma (TryChroma) is joining Replit to bring the right data to the right models and build a context layer so companies can run more self-driving agents.
- Replit launches Monitoring Agent to see, fix, and deploy AI-app changes
Replit introduces Monitoring Agent as an on-call engineer in your pocket that can see issues, fix them, and deploy changes autonomously for AI-app builders.
- Replit launches Replit for Government for public-sector builders
Replit announced Replit for Government, saying it is powering public servants at every level of government in the US and internationally with its agent platform.
- Replit Agent can now incorporate a business through Stripe Atlas via the Stripe MCP integration
Replit says users can ask Replit Agent to incorporate their business with Stripe Atlas, using the Stripe MCP integration.
- Replit opens a Japan office in Tokyo
Replit is opening a Japan office in Tokyo to bring its enterprise app and agent building closer to Japanese businesses, the company says.
- Replit introduces Bring Your Own Cloud, letting enterprises run Replit and host published apps in their own Azure, Google Cloud or AWS tenant
Replit announced Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) on October 16 with three options for enterprises on Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud or Amazon Web Services. Full BYOC runs the whole Replit platform, including compute, storage and the Agent harness, inside the customer's cloud tenant and is in private preview. BYOC for Published Apps hosts published projects in the customer's cloud while Replit manages the platform, and Image Exports give teams a Docker image, Terraform file and SBOM to self-host Replit-built apps; both are in early access for enterprise customers.
- Replit adds Claude Haiku 5.5 to the Power Mode model selector for Core and Pro builders
Replit's October 16 changelog says builders on its Core and Pro plans can now pick Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 from the model selector in Power Mode. The same update points to the new Replit Solutions Partners directory of agencies, consultants and systems integrators, and to Bring Your Own Cloud options for enterprises, both announced earlier.
- Replit launches a Solutions Partner Program for systems integrators, agencies and consultancies building client software on Replit
Replit introduced the Replit Solutions Partner Program for systems integrators, agencies and consultancies that turn client briefs into working software on Replit, offering training and a referral-first partnership model. CEO Amjad Masad said that even if frontier research paused today, AI would take another 10 years to diffuse into the economy, and that Replit is working with solutions partners to speed that up.
- Replit streams a showcase of running TikTok Ads from Replit via a TikTok Ads MCP
Replit broadcast a showcase on X of the TikTok Ads MCP, which lets users run TikTok Ads campaigns from Replit.
- Replit previews a Windows desktop app with Microsoft, sandboxing each build with NVIDIA OpenShell
Replit announced a preview of its desktop app with Microsoft. On Windows, Replit builds and runs apps locally, with each build in its own sandbox powered by Microsoft Execution Containers and NVIDIA OpenShell. CEO Amjad Masad said desktop AI apps expose users to supply-chain attacks and catastrophic agent mistakes, so Replit is focusing on security and reliability. A waitlist is open.
- Replit adds context across all your projects
Replit announced it now has context over all of a user's projects: dropping in a skill lets Replit surface and work with existing projects. CEO Amjad Masad reshared the update, noting a new chat can find an existing project on request.