This release brings a new writing capability to PaperGuru and tightens several parts of the workspace that researchers touch every day.

The headline is Humanize, a new agentic skill designed to make academic writing feel more natural, less mechanical, and easier to read while preserving the underlying meaning. Alongside that, we improved how PaperGuru updates the research agent behind the scenes, made Lab file uploads more reliable, refined Office document previews, and cleaned up the prompt input experience.

Humanize: Natural Rewriting for Academic Drafts

Academic writing often needs to do two things at once: stay precise and sound like a real person wrote it. Drafts produced by an AI assistant can be structurally useful but still feel too rigid, repetitive, or overly polished in ways that draw attention away from the argument.

The new Humanize skill gives PaperGuru a dedicated rewriting mode for that problem. It works section by section, focusing on clarity, flow, sentence rhythm, and natural academic tone rather than simply swapping words. The goal is not to make the paper casual. The goal is to make it read like careful human academic prose.

You can use it when a draft feels stiff, when a paragraph sounds too generic, or when a section needs a more authentic voice before submission or advisor review. The skill is also designed with confidentiality in mind, so sensitive document content is handled more carefully during the rewrite workflow.

Humanize is available directly from the prompt experience through @humanize. Use it on a full section, a paragraph, or a passage that needs a more natural version.

@humanize revise the introduction so it reads more naturally while preserving the technical claims
@humanize make this related work section less repetitive and more human-written
@humanize polish the discussion section without changing the argument

Agent Updates Without Disrupting Your Workspace

We also improved how PaperGuru updates the agent that powers research sessions.

Previously, shipping a new agent version could require heavier operational steps behind the scenes. That made it harder to roll out fixes quickly and could create unnecessary friction when the platform needed to move everyone onto a better version.

The new update path lets PaperGuru refresh the agent binary more smoothly without rebuilding the whole working environment around it. For users, the benefit is simple: important fixes and new capabilities can reach active workspaces faster, with less interruption and less risk of a session feeling out of date.

This matters especially for features like Humanize and Lab Compute, where the agent needs to stay aligned with the tools available in the workspace.

More Reliable Lab File Uploads

Lab Compute is most useful when moving code, data, and results into the remote machine feels boring and predictable. We fixed a reliability gap in Lab file uploads so files sent from the workspace arrive more consistently and are easier for the agent to work with afterward.

If you use Lab Compute for experiments, this should make the loop smoother: upload a file, run the job, inspect results, and keep writing without having to fight the transfer step.

Better Office Document Previews

We continued improving the experimental Office document workflow introduced recently.

Office previews now handle generated artifacts more cleanly, including better detection and rendering of previewable document outputs. When the agent creates or updates files intended for Word-style review, the workspace is better at showing the right preview instead of leaving you with an unclear or missing artifact state.

This is still an evolving area, but the experience should feel steadier when moving between generated documents and the chat session that produced them.

Cleaner Prompt Input and Attachments

The prompt composer also received a round of practical polish.

Attachments now fit more cleanly in the input area, especially when images or files are added before sending a message. The layout is less likely to feel cramped or jumpy, and first-message handling has been tightened so starting a new session feels more predictable.

These are small changes, but they affect one of the most repeated actions in PaperGuru: attaching context and telling the agent what to do next.

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This release is about making PaperGuru feel more capable and less fragile in the moments that matter: rewriting a paper in a more human voice, getting new agent improvements quickly, uploading experiment files, previewing generated documents, and composing prompts with less friction.

Humanize is the biggest new capability here, and we expect it to become a core part of the revision workflow for many papers. Try it on a section that feels technically correct but stylistically flat, then continue refining from there with the agent in the same workspace.