Connect two Slack workspaces or two Discord logins, and NAOMS used to treat them as one account wearing two names. A reply now leaves from whichever account the conversation actually arrived on — not whichever one connected first — and where the system genuinely cannot tell which identity you meant, it says which one it used, or refuses outright rather than guess. Your reply leaves from the account that received it covers the reply path; Being logged in is four things, not one covers what was actually broken underneath it — a live connection, a login folder, a sealed credential and a shutdown entry are four separate pieces of state, and until this week every one of them was keyed by network instead of by account, so a second login silently overwrote the first one's credentials and its Disconnect button.

Joining a shared group used to mean showing your permanent identity to everyone already in it. A Group That Knows You're Real Without Learning Your Name describes a per-group persona — a display name you choose, or nothing but verified reputation — published instead of your root identity, so you decide what a given group learns about you one relationship at a time. The other half of that trade is Your Friends Get Their Names Back — On Your Screen Only: your own device quietly matches those name-less markers against people already in your address book, entirely on-device, so a group stays pseudonymous to strangers while still looking like your friends to you.

Why the assistant sees 24 tools, not all of them draws a distinction: being granted a capability and being shown you have it are different things, and showing an assistant too many tools is its own failure mode. A hard-coded list of 29 tools — stale, and in the way — is deleted in favour of a ranked subset actually relevant to what you asked.

Let an AI Into the Group Chat Without Handing It the Room is about governance: in a group-owned conversation, the people already in it get to object before an assistant joins. What the group approves becomes a permission slip the assistant carries, checked before every single action it attempts — asking someone's calendar returns busy-or-free and nothing else — and the record of who let it in, who objected, and who removed it outlives the assistant itself.