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## October 2026

### Issues

An agent reads your recent traces and turns recurring failures into Issues, each with a severity, a diagnosis and the traces behind it. It needs traces only, no judges. You review each Issue, hand it to Codex, Claude Code, Cursor or Devin with **Fix with**, and choose **Monitor with Judge** or **Dismiss issue**. Detection can run on a schedule and post a report to Slack after each run. See [Find issues](/documentation/issues/overview).

### Project setup

New projects open a five-step setup on the project home: Tracing, Issues, Judges, Slack and Judgment Agent. As your first traces arrive, Judgment starts an Issues run and creates up to five judges from them. See the [Quickstart](/documentation/start/quickstart).

### Tests

Tests run your agent over a set of test inputs, Judgment's judges grade each trace, and you compare runs. See [Test changes](/documentation/tests/overview).

### Query with SQL

Query traces with Judgment's virtual SQL (vsql) through the Judgment Agent and the MCP tools `sql_query` and `discover_schema`. The SDK adds `client.sql()` in judgeval 1.3.3 (Python) and 1.3.4 (TypeScript). See [Query with SQL](/documentation/agents/query-with-sql).

### Scheduled Tasks

Background agents are now Scheduled Tasks, under **Scheduled** in the sidebar. A task is a Judgment Agent chat that runs on a schedule and can post to Slack. Start from scratch, from a template, or let Judgment suggest one. See [Scheduled Tasks](/documentation/agents/scheduled-tasks).

### Agent Knowledge

Project memory moved to Agent Knowledge in project Settings. Files there are shared by the Judgment Agent in chats and Scheduled Tasks, and files under `skills/` become slash commands. See [Agent Knowledge](/documentation/agents/agent-knowledge).

### Labels

The values a judge applies are now called labels. API and SQL names still say `behavior` (for example `behavior_id`). See [Labels as indexes](/documentation/agents/labels-as-indexes).

### Deprecated

The CLI and prompt management are deprecated. Old CLI documentation links redirect to the pages that replace them.