September 21, 2026: Effort Mode, Skills Marketplace and Side Chat
Perplexity's changelog describes Light, Standard, High and Ultra effort on the web for personal Computer accounts. Its public Skills Marketplace can be browsed without signing in; Enterprise sharing and installation remain governed by admins. Side Chat is described as a read-only side conversation that uses a snapshot without changing the main task. GPT-6 Astra access depends on eligible Pro or Max accounts and usage allowance.
Workflow implication: Choose effort for the job, inspect a skill before installing it and keep organization approval rules. Use Side Chat to check a source without treating that check as an edit to the main output. No paid plan or skill installation is performed by this guide.
Official Perplexity changelog. Checked October 2, 2026. Read the source
September 2026: Computer in Email, GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna, Grok 4.6
You can send or forward email to [email protected] to start a Computer session from a thread, run subagents and automations on GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna, and access Grok 4.6.
What this means for your agents: Email-in is the missing trigger: forward a vendor thread and the agent picks it up - no dashboard required.
September 2026: Shared workspaces, Personal Computer for Windows, Model Council
Spaces gained shared workspaces, the local Personal Computer arrived on Windows with local files and background sessions, and Model Council lets models check each other.
What this means for your agents: Background sessions on your own machine plus shared workspaces turn a solo agent habit into a team setup.
September 1, 2026: Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer on Mac
Computer can orchestrate cloud agents down to a local model gated on device, keeping privileged local context on the Mac.
What this means for your agents: Sensitive inputs (contracts, deal docs) can stay on your machine while cloud models do the heavy lifting.
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