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      🪶 Paradigm Version: Quiet-Quail 0725

      The Quiet Quail update brings enhanced privacy controls, smarter document handling, and new integration capabilities. These improvements aim to support more autonomous, secure, and flexible usage across a wide range of workflows.

      1. Document Handling Enhancements

      🌐 Web Scraping Datasource (Beta)

      Users can now ingest website content as a structured knowledge source.
      Core features include:

      • Intelligent crawling and markdown extraction.

      • Configurable by users via URL input and webpage specific parameters such as .
      • Detect and retrieve linked files of supported filetypes.

      • All extracted content is ingested for availability accross tools in the platform.

      📄 HTML, XHTML, TXT Format Support

      Uploading .html, .xhtml, .txt documents is now fully supported. This resolves previous compatibility gaps, especially for legacy or low-footprint document pipelines.

      • Error handling for unsupported formats has been improved.
      • Datasources automatically syncs new format type

      🧠 Smart Parsing 

      Document ingestion now automatically selects the optimal parser based on file type. This provides better extraction results while reducing manual intervention.

      • .pdf, .docx default to legacy parser with fallback logic.

      • .html, .pptx, .png, .jpg, .jpeg use specialized vision-based parsers.

      • .md, .csv, .xlsx routed through dedicated text pipelines.

      • Behavior is configurable for benchmarking or debugging.

      2. Privacy and Confidential Sessions

      🔒 Ephemeral Mode — Full Session Privacy

      A new “Ephemeral Mode” allows users to start private sessions where no user inputs, document links, or feedback are stored. This is ideal for sensitive or exploratory conversations.

      • Ephemeral Mode can be toggled at company level by system admins.

      • When enabled: Sessions & Documents are not persisted or visible to admins. 

      • Sessions are automatically deleted after 15 minutes of inactivity.

      3. Additional Improvements

      • Bug reporting UX has been improved:

        • Comments are now mandatory.

        • Users can optionally preview and share associated documents.

        • Flags are hidden when in Private Mode.

      • Chat sessions can now visually indicate long-running background tasks in the UI.

      • A disclaimer ("Alfred may make mistakes") is now permanently shown below the chat input for transparency.

      4. Alfred 4.2: Visual Language Model (VLM)

      🧠 Alfred Goes Multimodal
      Version 4.2 of Alfred introduces a major upgrade: it is now a Visual Language Model (VLM). This means it caninterpret visual elements within documents—significantly improving its understanding of complex, hybrid formats.

      Key Highlights:

      • 🖼️ Smart interpretation of embedded images: photos, diagrams, charts.

      • 📊 Improved analysis of tables and visually structured data.

      • 🧭 Enhanced contextual comprehension for documents mixing text and visuals.

      • 🛠️ Fully integrated into the automatic parser selection system (see Section 1.3).