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Knock

INFRA · APIS
Velocity6.3

Knock pushes an AI agent over its notification stack, from CLI to Slack.

notifications-infrastructureagentic-workflowsintegrationsdeveloper-experiencesecurity
◆Current state
Knock is a developer-first notifications platform, and its recent releases split between hardening the core (MFA, test-runner sandbox mode) and pushing an agent-driven control layer over notification workflows. Teams can now build, trigger, and manage engagement resources from an AI agent — in the dashboard, CLI, or Slack — rather than only through code.
◆Where it's heading
The throughline is making notification operations conversational and self-serve: agent skills, dynamic audiences buildable by an agent, a hosted preference center non-engineers can configure, and now the agent inside Slack. Knock is widening who can operate the system beyond developers while keeping its API-first core.
◆Prediction
Expect the agent surface to keep expanding — more data sources beyond Shopify and deeper agent actions — pulling notification configuration out of code and into conversation and the dashboard.

◆Recent moves

  1. 3d ago

    Test runner improvements

    Sandbox previews and skip-delay testing tighten the developer loop — incremental DX work that supports the broader push to let more people safely build and validate notification workflows.

  2. 4d ago

    Multi-factor authentication

    TOTP-based 2FA with optional account-wide enforcement and recovery is table-stakes security hardening as Knock courts larger teams running notification infrastructure.

  3. 21d ago

    Preference center

    A hosted, no-code preference center lets non-engineers own notification settings — part of the arc moving notification operations out of code and into self-serve surfaces.

  4. 29d ago

    New partial input types

    Color picker, number, and list inputs give designers more control over partial styling without breaking the design system — focused content-tooling polish.

  5. 1mo ago

    Knock agent for Slack

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    Bringing the Knock agent into Slack lets teams create, update, and schedule engagement resources from a conversation — the clearest step yet in Knock's move to make notification ops agent-driven.

  6. 1mo ago

    Shopify data source

    A few-clicks Shopify connection powers order and customer notifications from real-time commerce events — extending Knock's data-source integrations toward e-commerce use cases.