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NocoBase

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Velocity6.3

Open-source no-code platform for building internal business applications.

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NocoBase is building AI employees as plugins and Portals as the surface they live on

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◆Current state
NocoBase runs two release trains in parallel — a 2.2.0 beta line and a 3.0.0 alpha line — publishing into both within hours of each other, with features crossing between them. Two constructions dominate the last fortnight. AI employees became extensible through the plugin system, gaining assignable skills, Portal-scoped conversations with unread counts, an embeddable chat block and frontend tools for JS blocks. Portal manager arrived alongside as the container: default Portal routing, access checks, fixed layouts, backup and restore for AI-mode Portals.
◆Where it's heading
The pairing is deliberate. Skills are built from plugins, Portals are where employees are scoped and conversed with, and the CLI is being wired to drive both — LLM service creation, vector database management, and an alpha.8 addition that copies a ready-to-paste prompt for connecting a coding agent to the instance. NocoBase is positioning its low-code platform as somewhere agents are configured and hosted, not just a database with forms on top.
◆Prediction
Expect the AI employee and Portal work to keep landing in the 3.0 alpha line while 2.2.0 receives backports, and expect the coding-agent connection path to grow beyond a copyable prompt. When 3.0 leaves alpha is not something these entries indicate.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    v3.0.0-alpha.10

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  2. 7d ago

    CLI accepts JSON arrays for bulk record creation

    A fix-weighted alpha whose one improvement lets the CLI create multiple records in a single request via a JSON array. The bug list is broad — decimal display in V2 fields, Kanban group inheritance, Settings tab redirects — the ordinary cost of running two client generations at once.

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  3. 8d ago

    AI employee skills and LLM service navigation reach 2.2.0

    The 2.2.0 line picking up the plugin-built AI employee skills that the 3.0 alpha introduced days earlier, plus LLM service and vector database CLI navigation. Also queues asynchronous Worker execution in JavaScript workflow nodes with a per-process concurrency limit, which addresses resource spikes rather than adding capability.

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  4. 9d ago

    Portal cards emit a prompt for connecting a coding agent

    Adds a ready-to-paste prompt on AI Portal cards for connecting a coding agent to the instance, along with Date variables in V2 field editors and Portal access-denied handling. The coding-agent hook is small in implementation but points at where the Portal surface is heading.

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  5. 13d ago

    AI employee skills become plugins, scoped to Portals

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    The release the current arc runs from. Everything since — skills reaching the 2.2.0 line, Portal access checks, backup for AI Portals, the coding-agent prompt — extends the extensibility model this build established.

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  6. 16d ago

    Alpha 6 fixes CSRF, sequence and Worker exit bugs

    Bug fixes only — CSRF token errors in cross-origin deployments, duplicate sequence values after migration, JavaScript workflow Workers failing to exit. Maintenance between the larger alpha builds.

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