The Releases tab, release views and the artifact

An agent's Releases tab lists every release; clicking a Staging or Production pill in the environment bar shows what that environment runs, read only. Both are about releases, the promoted snapshots. Edit history is different: it lists the saved changes to the draft.

The Releases tab

The list holds the newest 200 releases.

Compare

Compare at the top opens a bar with two pickers: Draft (Development) and every release. It lists each field that differs, before and after, with the instructions as a line diff (long unchanged runs folded as "12 unchanged lines"), or says "v3 and Draft are the same." The compare button on a release row compares it with the draft. The same comparison appears in the promote dialog as What changes in <environment>.

Download the artifact

Download saves the release as a JSON file, <agent-name>-v3.json, with format: "sentientone.agent-release/v1", the agent's id and name, the version, digest, notes, when it was created and the snapshot itself, every release field. Keep it with your own change records or compare releases outside the app. It can't be uploaded back: releases are only ever made by promoting.

{  "format": "sentientone.agent-release/v1",  "agent": { "id": "…", "name": "Northwind help desk" },  "version": 3,  "digest": "9f2c1a7b4e0d",  "notes": "Shorter answers; the new returns policy",  "createdAt": "2026-11-01T09:15:00.000Z",  "snapshot": {    "system_prompt": "You are the support agent for …",    "provider": "anthropic",    "model": "claude-haiku-4-5",    "temperature": 0.4,    "max_tokens": 1024,    "top_p": 1,    "frequency_penalty": 0,    "presence_penalty": 0,    "output_type": "text",    "tools": [],    "guardrails": [],    "rag_enabled": true,    "chat_workflow_id": null,    "rate_limit_rpm": 60  }}

What an environment runs

Click Staging or Production in the environment bar. A banner says what it runs and since when, such as "Production runs v3, promoted 2 days ago by Maya.", and that releases can't be edited. Its buttons: Open Development (back to the editable tabs), Roll back and Download artifact. Below, the release's configuration in sections (Instructions; Model and parameters; Tools; Guardrails; Knowledge on or off; Chat workflow; Rate limit) and the environment's Deployment history: every promotion and rollback there, such as "v3 promoted (was v2)", "Rolled back to v2 from v3" and "v1, what it ran when environments were turned on", with who and when.

An environment with no release of the agent reads Not released to Staging yet, with Open Development and Promote to Staging.

Release notes

Typed in the promote dialog when a new release is made, up to 2,000 characters, and shown in the Releases tab, the release view and the rollback dialog. They can't be edited afterwards.