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Soon Assistant scheduling improvements

On July 6 and 7, we shipped improvements that make Soon Assistant more reliable, clearer, and safer when helping with scheduling work.

Soon Assistant improvements

  • Improved how Soon Assistant handles scheduling changes that need approval, especially time-change requests.
  • Time-change summaries now show clearer planned versus requested hours, paid time impact, and break changes.
  • Assistant approval cards are easier to review, with clearer labels and affected shift and member details.
  • Assistant now better understands the current board and week you are viewing, reducing confusion around relative requests like "this week."
  • Added stronger safeguards for ambiguous dates, such as numeric dates that could mean different days depending on date format.
  • Improved handling for interrupted or retried assistant actions, so approved actions are less likely to get stuck or duplicated.
  • Improved assistant recovery when approvals are submitted together with a follow-up message.

Scheduling and assignment updates

  • Added a safer way for Soon Assistant to remove a specific person from a shift.
  • When removing someone from a shift, Assistant now verifies the person, shift, assignment, and current status before making changes.
  • Published shift removals now follow the correct cancellation flow instead of being treated like draft assignment deletion.
  • Assistant now gives clearer guidance when an assignment cannot be removed, such as when it is already cancelled or when multiple matching assignments exist.

Users and provisioning

  • The Users page now reports SSO and SCIM provisioning settings separately.
  • This makes it easier for admins to understand whether single sign-on and directory provisioning are enabled independently.

Reliability and privacy

  • Improved assistant request handling, retry behavior, and duplicate-action protection.
  • Improved internal error reporting while reducing exposure of sensitive user content by default.
  • Added broader validation around assistant tools that affect multiple boards or scheduling areas.

Overall

These updates make Soon Assistant more precise when editing schedules, clearer when reviewing approvals, and safer around date interpretation, assignment removals, and repeated actions.