Date: 1st April 2025
We are pleased to announce the latest update to Kadal AI Workbench, introducing new features, interface improvements, and key fixes to enhance usability and performance.
Key Features
Threads
- A new feature called ‘Threads’ is introduced, available under ‘Try&Build’. This will allow users to interact directly with LLM models without the need to create an agent first.
- The ‘Threads’ interface supports file uploads from computer and repository, and also allows switching between AI models (GPT-4o Mini, Gemini 1.5 Pro, Claude 3.5 Haiku, Llama 3.2 11B).
- Threads' history will showcase the following segments
- Today
- Yesterday
- Last 14days
- Past conversation
New LLM Models Added
Llama 3.2 11B has been added as a new model in Threads & Agents.
Enhanced RAG Pipeline
The ingestion pipeline has been improved with the support of a new library to enhance:
- Performance
- Tag generation
- Large PDF handling
- Markdown extraction
- Chunk creation
These enhancements ensure better processing of uploaded files and Improved responses in agents
Supported file types for ingestion:
| Category | Supported File Types |
| Document | .docx |
| Spreadsheet | .csv, .xls, .xlsx |
| Text file | .txt |
| Presentation | .pptx |
| HTML | .html |
| ePub | .epub |
File Ingestion Status Indication
Indicators have been added to enhance visibility into the status of uploaded files. These indicators appear in KB &Dataset, and Asset Picker, showing:
- Processing – The file is being analyzed, indexed, and ingested.
- Failed – The file could not be processed and must be reuploaded.
- Available (No Icon) – This applies to:
- Supported file formats - Successfully ingested and is ready for AI interactions and search.
- Unsupported file formats - Uploaded but not processed for AI-based responses.
System Rules & Behaviors:
- Users cannot rename files while they are in Processing, but they can still be used inside agents.
- Files in Processing cannot be attached in Threads.
- Files in Processing can be assigned to a Group, but they will only appear in Shared with Me once processing is complete.
- Failed files cannot be modified or used in Agents, Threads, or Groups.
Agent Status Indication
- If an agent’s knowledge base contains files that are still Processing or Newly Uploaded, the agent will show an In-Progress status, indicating that responses may be inaccurate until processing is complete.
- If an agent’s knowledge base contains Failed files, the agent will show a Failed status, signaling a configuration issue requiring user attention.
- Agents remain queryable regardless of their status; icons serve as awareness indicators.
- Agent status indicators are displayed in both the Agent Listing and Agent Chat Space.
Note: Status indications appear only if individual files are selected for the knowledge base. If a folder is selected, the indication will not be shown. Folder-based indications will be introduced in future releases.
Defect Fixes
Several important fixes have been implemented in this release, including:
| Ticket ID | Description |
| LMPQNINE-5522 - [Zendesk - 7952] | Tenant Admin able to update tokens through API |
| LMPQNINE-6498 [Zendesk #8243] | Epub file not uploaded |
| LMPQNINE-6017[Zendesk#8134] | Kadal Bots not working |
| LMPQNINE-3275[Zendesk #6613] | Creation date of tenants are incorrect |
| LMPQNINE-6158 | Clear Chat and Download Chat gets disabled even if there is data. |
| LMPQNINE-6683 | Already added files getting overwritten during agent edit in a certain scenario |
Upcoming Features & Improvements
Looking ahead, we are working on:
- Unified platform experience
- Enabling new LLM Models
- Further enhancements to the ingestion pipeline, including a queue mechanism at the tenant level and streaming for larger files.
- Support for .doc and .ppt files in the ingestion pipeline
- Enable web search in agent and threads.