---
id: change.authoring-search
title: Agent authoring, search, and documentation answers
summary: Reviewed agent drafts, improved search results, and better context for
  documentation answers.
type: changelog-entry
area: authoring
subarea: authoring-agent-workflows
canonical: /changelog/authoring-search
date: 2026-10-03
---

# Agent authoring, search, and documentation answers

> Documentation index: [llms.min.txt](https://www.shoalrun.com/llms.min.txt) · Document manifest: [documents.json](https://www.shoalrun.com/documents.json)

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**Published: 2026-10-03.**

Prepared for the next prototype release:

- **Agent authoring:** Skills, templates, project directives, source context, and checked edit plans help your existing agent draft and update documentation.
- **Writing guidance:** Design templates and project writing guides, with a complete example to adapt.
- **Search:** Semantic ranking, exact-key assistance, and clearer snippets. Word matching provides fallback results when embeddings fail or exceed the three-second deadline.
- **Ask:** Follow-ups keep their topic, and explicit multi-part questions get evidence for each part. Citation and claim checks remain; multi-topic answers are experimental.

## Related reading

### Next steps

- [Apply a checked edit plan](https://www.shoalrun.com/author/authoring-agent.md) — Prepare and review a page update with your own model key. (Status: experimental.)

### Related topics

- [Site search](https://www.shoalrun.com/author/search.md) — Configure semantic search and lexical fallback.

- [Check and speed up answers](https://www.shoalrun.com/chat/checks.md) — Understand documentation answer checks and their limits. (Status: experimental.)