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🧠 Kimi K2.7 and Fable 5

Two new models are now available from the model picker: Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic's most capable model to date) and Kimi K2.7 (an open-source model, best known for its lower token costs).

Kimi K2.7 is an open-source model that runs at a fraction of the cost of the main frontier providers, and we host it ourselves on US-based infrastructure. It's not the one to reach for on your hardest questions, but for quick syntax help, simple transformations, and well-defined lookups, and gets you there cheaper.

One of our engineers benchmarked it against Opus, so you don't have to. Read how Kimi stacks up in our blog

Claude Fable 5, Anthropic's most capable model to date, is also back. One thing to know: Fable requires a data retention opt-in for safety monitoring, so admins need to enable model data retention before it shows up for your team. We recommend reviewing with your security and legal teams first.

☑️ Admins can set the default model

Admins can now choose which model the agent defaults to for the whole workspace, so every new thread starts on the right model instead of leaving it up to each person.

admins can set the default model

🎨 Brand your generative apps

Every app your team ships should look like it's actually yours.

Set your colors, typography, spacing, and style rules once in a design.md file in your workspace guides, and the Hex agent uses it for every generative app your workspace builds from then on.

A one-off prompt can still override it, and you don't have to write it by hand. Give an agent your existing brand guidelines and it'll draft the file for you.

brand your generative apps

🛠️ Other improvements

  • Import and export generative apps as YAML: Generative app code can now be exported and imported as YAML, so you can share, template, or version an app just like the rest of your Hex project.
  • Faster notebooks and apps: Chart and pivot cells now run in parallel instead of one at a time, so notebooks and apps with a lot of visual cells finish running faster. App runs also now prioritize whichever tab you're actively looking at.
  • Easier SSO login: Workspaces using SSO now have a working "Log in with SSO" option right on the main login page, including for MCP logins. No more getting stuck guessing which login path to use.

🧑‍🎨 Hex Connector for Figma

There’s a new connector that allows you to use the Figma agent to pull data from Hex right into your Figma files. This is great if you want to incorporate facts from your data into things like feature mockups or web page designs.

We’re going to be partnering with Figma on more ways of incorporating data into your work, so stay tuned for more here!

🔐 IAM role support for AWS

Hex’s AWS integrations now support IAM roles as an authentication method. IAM roles are short-lived, automatically rotating temporary credentials.

This includes:

IAM roles are more secure than static access keys or username/password. Your security team will thank you.

🗂️ Schema refresh history

Admins can now see a table view of recent schema refreshes across their workspace's data connections. This includes how long each refresh took, its outcome (success, failure, partial success), and any error messages returned from the warehouse.

This makes it easier to diagnose pesky errors like permissions issues in the warehouse that can cause your refreshes to fail.

🗓️ Introducing Agent Tasks

Schedule the Hex Agent to answer your recurring questions automatically and deliver results straight to Slack or email.

Most insights aren't one-offs. The same questions come back every week: before the Monday standup, before the all-hands, before every sales call. Agent Tasks handles them for you.

Some ways teams are using it:

  • Get a summary of what shifted in your revenue dashboard every Monday morning before standup without having to log in
  • Consolidate activation and usage trends into a single weekly update, then reply in the Slack thread to dig into a segment
  • Run a check on your key funnel metrics every morning with suggested reasons behind any sudden change

Want more prompt templates and worked examples? Check out the Tasks cookbook →

Getting started: Start from Threads to draft a solid prompt, and you'll see what the output looks like before committing to a schedule.

Be specific about format (charts, bullets, brief summary), and test the run before turning on the schedule.

🌐 Web search for the Hex Agent

Hex already knows what's happening inside your business, now the Hex agent can fill in the gaps with what's happening outside.

The Hex agent can search the web, powered by Parallel.

Ask the agent an open-ended question and it'll search the web and synthesize an answer alongside your data. Or paste a URL and the agent will extract what's relevant directly into your analysis.

Web search is on by default for Professional, Team, and Enterprise plans. Admins can turn it off in AI & Agent settings.

🎛️ Choose your model

Now you can pick which model runs the Hex agent. Easy task? Use a cheaper model. Beefier, open-ended task? Reach for the best reasoning. Switch in personal settings, or mid-conversation in Threads.

choose your model

Speaking of...

🧠 Fable 5 in Hex

Disclaimer: on June 12th, Anthropic disabled Fable 5 in response to the US government’s export control directive. Because of this, Fable 5 is currently unavailable in Hex.

Fable is Anthropic's newest frontier model and the first to meaningfully improve at complex analytical reasoning. So much so, we needed to build new evals. It's now available in the model picker.

To use it, an admin must enable model data retention in AI & Agents -> Settings.

Anthropic retains conversation data for a limited time for safety monitoring; we recommend reviewing with your security and legal teams first.

🗄️ Hex is now in Codex

At Hex, we want you to be able to analyze data from wherever you do your job. And we’re working hard on building our leading analytics agents and our unique approach to context into the places our customers are working.

Starting today, you can bring Hex directly into Codex to run analyses, pull in existing work, and spin up new projects.

💪 What you can do

  • Kick off Hex analysis from Codex - Need to understand churn by segment? Dig into pipeline performance? Codex can invoke Hex to pull the data, run analysis, and return results without switching tabs.
  • Pull Hex Threads into Codex - If you've already done analytical work in Hex, you can pull in your prior Hex work to incorporate data into whatever you build.
  • Control Hex programmatically using the CLI - For more specific, structured tasks - such as creating projects, adding cells, or configuring analysis - you can leverage the CLI connection in Codex for a more precise interface into Hex.

To use Hex in Codex, head to Plugins and install the Data Analytics plugin. Then connect to Hex and you're ready to go!

🔌 Hex is now an MCP client

Your data tells you what happened. The why lives somewhere else — in strategy docs, meeting notes, Slack threads, customer conversations.

Today, the Hex agent can read all of it.

Connect any tool that exposes an MCP server to the Hex agent.

As part of our public beta, we’re launching with two named connectors: Notion & Linear. Other MCP servers can also connect to the Hex Agent, and we have more named connectors in the works.

That means when your team asks a question in a Thread, the agent isn't just looking at your data — it's cross-referencing the Notion doc from the product launch, the Linear ticket that closed last week, the strategy doc your team updated before the weekly sync.

👷 How it works

  1. Go to Context Studio → Apps → Add MCP server
  2. Add Notion, Linear, or any tool that exposes an MCP server
  3. Once enabled, users connect their personal accounts via the + menu in any thread

Connecting more apps is only half of it — the agent works through semantic models and definitions your team has already validated, so the answers are consistent and can be trusted.

Available today in public beta for Team and Enterprise plans.