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Discover the latest features and capabilities of 5.2 that empower your development teams to build, design, and deploy with unprecedented efficiency and flexibility.

Design recipes — make the Design Assistant yours​

Design recipes extend the Design Assistant so it fits your modeling workflows—not only generic chat. Bundle skills (capabilities and expertise you give the assistant, applied automatically when a request fits) and commands (shortcuts that pre-fill the chat or appear on selected model elements) into versioned recipe packages that administrators publish and attach to project baselines.

What it brings:

  • Tailored automation — Add skills for validation, decomposition, conversions, and other design expertise once; the assistant applies that know-how without long, hand-written prompts every time.
  • Workflow shortcuts — Run common actions from the chat (/command-name) or directly from diagrams and element lists when you select model elements.
  • Standards built in — Align terminology and design rules with OML profiles and baselines so teams model consistently.
  • Central management for teams — Administrators upload recipes in Admin Settings and link them to baselines, so everyone on the same project type gets the same capabilities. Workflows stay streamlined and optimized across users—not reinvented per person.
  • Ready-to-use examples — Default design recipes ship with example profiles and baselines so you can start from proven patterns and adapt them.

Read more about Design recipes.

Extended LLM provider support for AI capabilities​

Generative AI capabilities — the Design Assistant, ADR Sidekick, and Diagram Assistant — now support multiple LLM providers in addition to the OpenAI platform:

  • OpenAI on Azure
  • Amazon Bedrock

All centrally managed credentials are configured through the k5-ai-credentials secret. Your administrator selects the provider and supplies the corresponding connection details in one place.

What changed:

  • Multiple AI providers — Choose OpenAI platform, OpenAI on Azure, or Amazon Bedrock for centrally managed AI capabilities.
  • Unified central credentials — The k5-ai-credentials secret is the single configuration point for all three capabilities.
  • ADR Sidekick and Diagram Assistant — These capabilities now also work with centrally configured credentials in addition to the user-based API keys.

Read more about AI providers.

Improved Design Assistant capabilities​

Export chat — Use the Export button in the chat sidebar header to download the full conversation of the current session as a text file. This helps you comprehend and retrace assistant behavior, especially when a response or applied change did not match what you expected.

Read more about the Design Assistant and how to use it.

Project baselines and OML profiles​

OML profiles give you versioned, shareable vocabularies for different concerns—architecture, domain modeling, user-story mapping, and more—so everyone models with the same element types, relationships, and rules. Project baselines bundle those profiles into a full setup: the profiles, recipes (coding guidelines, tech choices, patterns, and workflows), and documentation, ready to scale AI coding assistants across the enterprise.

Together, they enable design-driven development in a single integrated workflow for delivery teams.

Read more about OML Profiles and Baselines.

Design Assistant (beta)​

The Design Assistant is an AI-based chatbot that supports users during their daily work in the Solution Designer. Ask questions about your current project — such as listing available REST APIs or understanding how entities are connected — and the assistant answers in context. You can also instruct it to execute design tasks like creating model elements, establishing relationships, or cloning configuration from existing elements, all through natural-language prompts.

The Design Assistant is accessible from anywhere in a project, so teams can get guidance quickly without breaking their flow. Capabilities are being expanded with upcomings release.

Extended OIDC provider support​

OpenID Connect is now supported through Keycloak and Microsoft Entra ID, making it easier to integrate the workbench with your existing systems and align authentication with your current identity management setup.

Focus on new features for spec-driven design​

With setting the focus to support the new design approach the best as possible, Managed Stacks are getting deprecated with version 5.1.2.

Customers are advised to migrate their existing implementation projects to the new approach utilizing the power of OML, profiles, baselines and the graphical visualization.

These powerful new features represent our commitment to providing developers and architects with the tools they need to succeed in today's complex software development landscape. Each feature is designed to enhance productivity, improve collaboration, and maintain the highest standards of quality in your projects.