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MINEO 2026.03: Threads, Dev Environments, New Home & Redesigned Sidebar

Build conversational workflows with Threads and specialized AI assistants, spin up full VS Code Dev Environments inside MINEO, land on a redesigned project Home, and navigate faster with the reorganized sidebar.

Diego Garcia • • 6 min
MINEO 2026.03: Threads, Dev Environments, New Home & Redesigned Sidebar

MINEO 2026.03 is one of the most visible releases of the year. We rebuilt the way you navigate a project, shipped a brand-new Home screen, took Dev Environments to the next level, and made a big leap in the conversational experience with Threads and specialized AI assistants.

💬 Threads — Conversational AI workflows

A thread is a persistent conversation with an AI assistant inside MINEO. Threads make it easy to keep working with AI without losing context between sessions.

Features:

  • Persistent history: Every conversation is saved in full so you can pick up exactly where you left off
  • Pin & archive: Pin the conversations that matter most and archive the ones you no longer need
  • Specialized assistants: Create as many assistants as you need, each focused on a specific task — analyzing data, exploring files, answering questions about your project, and more
  • Database access: Assistants can connect to your databases and answer questions about your data in natural language
  • File access: Assistants can read and analyze the files in your project
  • Web search: Assistants can browse the internet to bring back up-to-date information

AI consumption tracking

Every thread now reports its AI usage so teams can keep costs under control:

  • Total cost in dollars
  • Number of requests
  • Tools used during the conversation

Threads in MINEO

Threads turn one-off AI prompts into long-running, auditable workflows that fit naturally into the way data teams already work.

🖥️ Dev Environments — Full VS Code inside MINEO

Dev Environments bring a complete VS Code workspace right inside MINEO, so you can edit, debug and ship code without ever leaving the platform.

Features:

  • Full VS Code experience: Terminal, code execution, git, extensions and multi-workspace support, just like VS Code on your laptop
  • Multiple Python versions: Python 3.12, 3.13 and 3.14 out of the box
  • Custom images: Use your own worker images as the base for the dev environment
  • Transparent file system: Direct access to all of your project files
  • Persistent extensions: Configurable extensions directory and user-data directory so your setup survives across sessions

Dev Environments in MINEO

Dev Environments close the gap between notebook-first prototyping and full-code development, all inside the same project.

Learn more: https://b.mineo.app/documentation/

🏠 New Project Home

The project Home is the new default landing view, replacing the file explorer as the entry point of every project.

Features:

  • Quick access to a new conversation: Start a new thread with one click, right from the Home
  • Role-aware shortcuts: Quick actions adapt to the permissions of the current user
  • Customizable links: Project admins can curate the links shown on the Home; by default it is populated with the Links found in the project root directory
  • Recent activity: A live feed of what is happening in the project so the team stays in sync

New Project Home

The new Home turns the project into a workspace dashboard instead of a folder tree, putting people, conversations and shortcuts front and center.

🧭 Redesigned Sidebar & Workspace

The left sidebar has been fully reorganized to reflect how MINEO is actually used today.

Features:

  • New Workspace section: Visible to editors only, it groups every MINEO entity that has been migrated away from the file system into a single, structured place
  • Unified Team tab: Members and groups are merged into a new Team view, with both tables side by side
  • Cleaner navigation: Sections are reordered to surface the most-used areas first

Redesigned sidebar

Combined with the new Home, the redesigned sidebar makes it dramatically faster to move between conversations, code, data and team management.

✨ Quality of life

  • Improved documentation and updated tutorial
  • Favorites integrated into the Explorer view
  • Dark mode fixes across the platform

Summary

MINEO 2026.03 reorganizes the project experience around two pillars: AI conversations — through Threads and specialized assistants with built-in usage tracking — and full-code development — through Dev Environments running a complete VS Code stack inside MINEO. The new Home and the redesigned sidebar tie everything together with a navigation model that finally matches the way modern data teams work.

For comprehensive documentation on these features, visit: https://b.mineo.app/documentation/

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