Goal mode, background agents, and a Free plan
Give Neo a goal and let it work until the result is verified, hand long-running work to background agents, and start on Neo for free. This release also adds an EU data region, Claude 5.5 models, hooks, and a much larger MCP server.
Goal mode
NewPick Goal in the composer and Neo plans once, then keeps working and verifying until the goal is met. Progress is grouped by phase, the final answer lands at the end of the run, and the run shows whether the goal was completed, failed, or hit its limit.
Background agents
NewNeo can now hand long-running work to subagents that run in the background while the main agent carries on. The thread shows when Neo is waiting on them, and a new activity panel in the trace sidebar lists running and finished agents with their status.
- Open any background agent’s trace, then return to the activity panel.
- Stop a single background agent without stopping the task.
Hooks and approvals
NewDecide what Neo is allowed to do. Settings → Hooks lists every hook with its configuration, and you can search, filter, enable, or delete them. When Neo asks to run a command, write a file, or change a hook, the request appears above the composer so you can allow it, deny it, or reply with feedback.
- Plans are reviewed above the composer, so the decision stays in reach however long the plan is.
- Turn on Auto tool review in advanced execution settings to block tool calls that break the data-egress policy.
- Decline a clarifying question and Neo continues without the answer.
EU data region
NewChoose where your data lives. Pick United States or European Union from the data region selector when you sign in or sign up, and your account runs in that region. Settings shows the MCP endpoint for your region.
Free plan and usage-based billing
NewAnyone can now start on Neo for free, with no verification step. When you need more, paid plans bill by usage: pick a plan, track usage from the sidebar and see when your allowance resets, add top-ups, and review billing history from Settings.
- Free accounts can run tasks and schedules and bring their own sandbox.
- Models outside your plan are labelled in the model picker, with an upgrade path.
- The composer tells you when a usage or concurrency limit is reached.
New models and per-subagent routing
NewModel picker now includes Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, and Haiku 5.5, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, and GLM 5.3, which replaces GLM 5.2. Set effort and speed for the selected model from the composer, or type /effort and /speed.
- On Auto, Neo picks a model and effort for each subagent instead of running every subagent on the same model.
- If a model refuses a request, the run continues on another model instead of stopping.
Issues are now Findings
ImprovementIssues has been renamed Findings and rebuilt for triage. Search and filter the list, filter by project or creator (including “Created by me”), delete in bulk, and see which task each finding came from. The detail page has expandable activity and comments, and existing issue links redirect to Findings.
Neo Advisories
NewA public record of the vulnerabilities Neo has found in open-source projects, each proven at runtime and disclosed to the upstream maintainers. Search and sort the list, filter by severity, and open any advisory for its CVSS score, affected versions, remediation, and references. Browse them on the Advisories page.
A bigger MCP server
ImprovementMuch more of Neo is now reachable from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client: work findings end to end, list and upload workspace files, run Neo on a pull request, steer, fork, or resume a task, manage secrets, prompts, agents, and projects, and read usage and audit logs. Thorough mode is available when you create a task, and destructive actions ask for confirmation first.
Account security and admin controls
NewTurn on multi-factor authentication, keep an audit trail of team activity, and decide how long task data is kept.
- Multi-factor authentication from Settings → Security.
- Audit logs in Settings record team activity, including sign-ins, on plans that include them.
- Team admins can set data retention to 30, 90, 180, or 365 days under Settings → Policies.
- Enterprise SSO users pick their connection from a chooser at sign-in.
- Edit a saved secret’s value in place; deleting a secret now asks for confirmation.
- Settings shows the IP addresses Neo’s SSH connections come from, so you can allowlist them.
Composer and navigation
ImprovementThe composer now supports rich text — links, lists, and formatted pastes — and messages in the thread render the same way. Global navigation has been redesigned, new accounts get an onboarding checklist, and project filters are remembered between visits.
- A reconnect banner appears when the connection drops.
- Task errors stay visible after a page refresh.
Fixes and stability
FixFaster responses and reliability fixes across live tasks, approvals, billing, GitHub, and sharing.
- Faster time to first token, and better prompt caching on long runs.
- Runs recover from model provider errors mid-stream, and streams stay stable under heavy output.
- Stop now also stops a task’s background agents.
- Approving a tool call no longer runs it twice.
- Tasks stop when credits run out, and running tasks can no longer be deleted.
- Steer messages appear in the right place in the thread.
- Canceled subscriptions can be renewed, and checkout works after an abandoned attempt.
- GitHub connect links work when repository access is missing.
- Redactions on shared tasks persist after a refresh.
- Report table-of-contents links scroll within the report.
- Paused automations show the correct “Next run” label.
- Composer settings are kept per task, and mobile layouts are fixed across the app.



