--- title: "Agent Improvements, User Secrets, and More Resilient Infrastructure in 2.34 - Coder Changelog" description: "### What's New in 2.34 🧑‍🚀" image: "/_next/static/media/OpenGraph.37da9236.jpg" --- ![Changelog Masthead Background](https://coder.com/_next/static/media/cde-masthead-bg.3328bdfa.jpg?w=3840&q=85) [Back to changelog](https://coder.com/changelog) v2.34June 2, 2026 # Agent Improvements, User Secrets, and More Resilient Infrastructure in 2.34 ### What's New in 2.34 🧑‍🚀 This release brings more control to developers and platform teams alike: smarter agent tooling, secrets management, and infrastructure that keeps working when things go wrong. ### Coder Agents beta improvements Coder Agents continues to improve and expand its capabilities, observability, and configuration. Introductory access includes full Premium features and no usage-based limits through September. - **[AI Gateway](https://coder.com/docs/ai-coder/ai-gateway) Integration**: Coder Agents traffic now appears in AI Gateway audit and session views for customers with the AI Governance add-on. - **[Chat Sharing](https://coder.com/docs/ai-coder/agents/chat-sharing)**: Share read-only agent chats with teammates so they can review the work, see how a task was completed, and reference the full context. - **[Personal Skills](https://coder.com/docs/ai-coder/agents/extending-agents#personal-skills)**: Save reusable instructions and invoke them with slash commands in chat, so your agent follows your conventions without repeating yourself. - **[Auto-Configure Models](https://coder.com/docs/ai-coder/agents/models)**: Set up new AI models in seconds with recommended default settings designed to get the most out of each model, eliminating guesswork during configuration. - **[Gitlab Integration](https://coder.com/docs/ai-coder/agents/platform-controls/git-providers#gitlab-configuration)**: Coder Agents now works with GitLab repositories, so agents can view merge request status, read diffs, and resolve branches to MRs. ![](https://www.datocms-assets.com/19109/1780404610-personal-skills.gif) Create personal skills as markdown and invoke them using slash commands ### Store and inject secrets with [User Secrets](https://coder.com/docs/user-guides/user-secrets) (beta) - **Secure per-user credential storage**: Developers store key-value secrets once via CLI, API, or UI, and they're automatically injected into every workspace, without manually copying .env files. - **Zero-friction onboarding**: Secrets follow developers across all their workspaces from day one, eliminating repetitive credential setup and reducing accidental leaks from terminals or shell history. - **Enterprise-ready (Premium)**: Secret values can be encrypted at rest and all CRUD actions are audited, meeting compliance needs without requiring an external secrets tool. ``` ``` ### Keep AI workflows running with [automatic provider key failover](https://coder.com/docs/ai-coder/ai-gateway/providers#key-failover) _Available with the AI Governance add-on._ - **Up to 5 keys per provider**: Admins can configure a comma-separated list of OpenAI or Anthropic keys, and AI Gateway automatically retries with the next key when one hits a rate limit or auth failure so builders aren’t interrupted. - **Smart failover, not just retry**: Keys are tracked as valid, temporarily unavailable (rate-limited with cooldown), or permanently unavailable (auth failure), so the system skips bad keys intelligently rather than blindly retrying. - **Safe and observable**: API keys stay out of logs and error messages entirely. Admins can monitor key pool health through server logs without exposing credentials. ![Add Providers in AI Gateway](https://www.datocms-assets.com/19109/1780363500-providers-list-coder-docs.png?fit=clip&fm=webp&w=3840&q=90) Add Providers in AI Gateway ### [Service accounts](https://coder.com/docs/tutorials/persistent-shared-workspaces) no longer consume a license seat Service accounts are purpose-built headless accounts for shared workspace ownership, useful for on-call rotations, shared staging or QA, pair programming, and contractor onboarding. **Premium customers can now use them without consuming a license seat**, making it easier to adopt agentic workflows and workspace sharing at scale. ### 2.34 is the Extended Support Release The June release will be our next [ESR](https://coder.com/blog/esr) (Extended Support Release). If you rely on Coder Tasks, we strongly recommend [migrating to Coder Agents](https://coder.com/docs/ai-coder/agents/tasks-to-chats-migration) for a better experience. However, should you choose to continue using Coder Tasks, please remain on version 2.34. Migrating from 2.29 is a more complex process than usual–customers are encouraged to review the [migration guide](https://coder.com/docs/install/releases/esr-2.29-2.34-upgrade) closely. ### Breaking Changes - **Default `CODER_AI_GATEWAY_ENABLED` to true ([#25575](https://github.com/coder/coder/pull/25575))**: The AI Gateway is now enabled by default on all deployments. Set `CODER_AI_GATEWAY_ENABLED=false` to restore the old behavior. - **Seed AI providers from env on server startup ([#24895](https://github.com/coder/coder/pull/24895))**: AI provider configuration from environment variables is now automatically seeded into the database on startup, replacing runtime-only provider setup. Existing database-configured providers take precedence. - **`patchTemplateMeta` uses optional fields ([#24984](https://github.com/coder/coder/pull/24984))**: The `UpdateTemplateMeta` request now uses pointer fields so that unset fields are left unchanged. Clients sending zero values will no longer accidentally clear template metadata. - **Persist structured chat errors ([#24919](https://github.com/coder/coder/pull/24919))**: Chat error messages are now persisted as structured `ChatMessagePart` entries instead of plain text. Existing clients that parse error messages as strings may need to handle the new structured format. View the [full changelog](https://github.com/coder/coder/releases/tag/v2.34.0) on GitHub. If you have questions or feedback, join the conversation on [Discord](https://discord.gg/coder) or email us directly!