This week we begin upgrading Guardrails SaaS workspaces to version 5.59, starting with non-production workspaces and then rolling forward until every workspace is on the new release.
If your workspace is on 5.55 today, everything you rely on works the way it always has. Controls, policies, resources, reports, and search are all where you expect them, backed by the same enforcement engine. What you will notice is a refreshed shell around that experience: navigation moves to the left, AI chat arrives, documentation and the Guardrails Hub live inside your workspace, and workspace administration gets a cleaner home.
Here is a tour of what changes when your workspace moves up.
Navigation moves to the left
The top navigation bar becomes a left sidebar. The same destinations are all there: Dashboard, Resources, Controls, Policies, Reports, and Search, with administrative areas (Integrations, Workspace, Developers, Help, and your profile) grouped at the bottom.
The sidebar also collapses. Click the chevron next to the logo to shrink it to an icon rail and give your dashboards, reports, and policy pages the full width of the screen. Drag the slider to compare:
Drag to compare the expanded and collapsed navigation
Your muscle memory transfers directly. Anything that was in the top bar is in the sidebar, in the same order you read it before.
AI chat comes to your workspace
Guardrails 5.59 brings integrated AI chat, which we previewed earlier this year. Ask Turbie a question about your environment and it answers from your workspace data: which buckets have versioning disabled, why a control is in alarm, what a policy setting cascades to, and where your riskiest accounts are.
Ask questions about your controls, policies, and resources in plain language
Chat queries run with your Guardrails permissions, and conversations are private to you within your workspace.
AI features are disabled by default. Workspace owners opt in from the new Integrations area, where you configure your own AI provider (AWS Bedrock, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, or OpenAI), choose any model your provider offers, optionally route traffic through a private endpoint, and test the connection before enabling features for users. Once chat is enabled, a Chat entry appears in the navigation for everyone with access.
Bring your own AI provider, keys, and endpoints, with per-feature control
Docs and the Hub, built in
Documentation and the Guardrails Hub now live inside your workspace, under the Help menu.
In-workspace docs have a real advantage over a public docs site: they match the exact Guardrails version your workspace is running. No more cross-referencing release notes to figure out whether a page describes your version.
Documentation inside your workspace, matched to your installed version
The Hub is your catalog of everything installable: mods for AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, GitHub, ServiceNow, OCI, and more, plus policy packs organized by objective, all searchable across mods, resource types, policies, and controls.
Your workspace is now the home for both. Once every customer has moved to 5.59, the existing Guardrails documentation and Hub content on turbot.com will be removed.
Explore mods and policy packs without leaving your workspace
Workspace administration, reorganized
Administrative screens get a cleaner structure. The Workspace section opens with a new Detail view that answers the questions admins actually ask: what version am I running, what mods are installed (and recently updated), how many controls are active, and who has been signing in. Permissions, Directories, Mods, and Accounts sit alongside as tabs.
Version, mods, controls, and identity at a glance in the new Workspace view
Integrations is promoted to a top-level navigation item for administrators. That is where AI configuration lives today, with more workspace-level capabilities to come.
What happened to 5.56 through 5.58?
Versions 5.56 through 5.58 shipped a preview of a fully redesigned console to a limited audience. We learned a lot from that preview, and 5.59 carries its most valuable capabilities (chat, integrated docs and Hub, and AI settings) onto the console experience our customers know. If you are moving from 5.55, you skip the intermediate versions entirely and land on 5.59.
Also in this release
Beyond the visible changes, 5.59 rolls up two releases worth of platform work:
- Keyless cloud credentials. GCP and Azure Workload Identity Federation support means Guardrails can authenticate to those clouds without long-lived keys.
- Performance and reliability. Faster control processing throughput, smarter database maintenance, and fixes for control error reporting, notification filters, and Azure tenant discovery.
- Mod hygiene. Mods removed from the registry are now pruned automatically during hub sync.
Rolling out this week
Non-production workspaces move first, and we will progressively upgrade all SaaS workspaces from there. No action is needed on your side: your existing mods, policy settings, and API integrations carry forward unchanged.
Questions about the upgrade or your workspace schedule? Open a support ticket or reach out to your account team. If you are new to Guardrails and want to see 5.59 in action, connect with us for a demo.