Hello,

We are proud to announce the immediate availability of the Oxygen AI Positron 8.0 plugins for all major Oxygen XML suite products, including Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer (desktop and Eclipse distributions), Oxygen JSON Editor, Oxygen XML Web Author, and Oxygen Content Fusion.

This major release expands connectivity for AI services, including a new AWS Bedrock connector, introduces advanced project-aware and agentic workflows, and delivers new developer-centric tools. These updates help technical communicators, information architects, and developers work more efficiently with XML-based content.


What's New in Oxygen AI Positron 8.0 for Desktop

The Oxygen AI Positron for Desktop add-on integrates AI-powered authoring and development within Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, and the Oxygen JSON Editor. Key enhancements include:

* Unified Add-on
The former AI Positron Assistant and AI Positron Assistant Enterprise editions are now merged into the single Oxygen AI Positron add-on. Previous users of both add-ons benefit from this change, non-Enterprise users have more functionality that was previously available only in the Enterprise version, such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, while Enterprise users will be able to connect also to the Oxygen AI Positron Service as AI provider.

* Multi-Provider AI Connections and New Integrations
Oxygen AI Positron 8.0 introduces the ability to create and manage multiple connections to supported AI service providers, allowing you to switch between different AI models based on specific project needs. A new dedicated connector for AWS Bedrock enables instant access to enterprise-grade AI models featuring real-time streaming and multi-modal capabilities. The update also adds support for the latest models from leading providers, including OpenAI GPT-5.1, xAI Grok 4 Fast, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Claude Haiku 4.5.

* Enhanced Agentic Tools and XML Workflows
The new release brings a range of agentic tools and workflow enhancements that empower you to automate and refine XML content creation:
 - Smarter AI context prompt setup, including a new action to generate project-specific agent instructions for more relevant AI-generated content.
 - Edit document and list directory tools, enabling precise file modifications and improved project structure awareness during AI-assisted chat sessions.
 - XML refactoring tools and project-wide search (grep inside the project) are now available directly in chat modes, supporting advanced restructuring and content discovery (requires Oxygen 28.0).
 - Enhanced project content search options, giving granular control over how the AI retrieves and matches relevant documents.
 - AI-powered new file creation, allowing you to guide content generation with prompts and attachments, and refine results through conversational AI.

* Developer Productivity
A new "Autocomplete" AI action provides real-time, context-aware code and markup suggestions as you type, at the caret location, and the "Generate Code" action leverages the structure of the associated XML for more accurate proposals when editing schema, XSLT, and XQuery.

* User Experience and Customization
The update introduces a new chat welcome screen with instructional resources and quick access to chat modes and actions. Tool names and descriptions have been refined for clarity, and you can now specify multiple context files to improve AI relevance. Custom AI actions are prioritized in the interface, ensuring faster access to user-defined workflows.

* Local MCP Server (Experimental)
Run Oxygen as a local Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to let desktop AI assistants (eg: Claude Code, Claude Desktop) validate, edit, and refactor XML using the tools provided by AI Positron. This functionality requires Oxygen 28.0 or newer.

What's New in Oxygen AI Positron 8.0 for Eclipse

Version 8.0 of Oxygen AI Positron integrates the following AI-assisted authoring and development features into the Oxygen XML distribution for Eclipse:

* Expanded Model and Integration Options
Leverage a broader selection of AI models, including OpenAI GPT-5.1, xAI Grok 4 Fast, Grok 4 Fast Non Reasoning, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Claude Haiku 4.5. A new dedicated connector for AWS Bedrock enables instant access to enterprise-grade AI models.

* Improved Agentic Behaviour
The generation of project-specific agent instructions allows for more relevant AI-generated content matching your project rules and style, while a new edit document tool allows the AI to perform precise file modifications.

* Developer Productivity
A new "Autocomplete" AI action provides context-aware code and markup suggestions, on-request, and the "Generate Code" action leverages the structure of the associated XML for more accurate proposals when editing schema, XSLT, and XQuery.


What's New in Oxygen AI Positron 8.0 for Content Fusion

Version 8.0 of Oxygen AI Positron for Content Fusion augments collaborative authoring and reviewing with intelligent, context-aware AI support:

* Expanded Model Support
Select from OpenAI GPT-5.1, xAI Grok 4 Fast, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and more to balance speed, cost, and reliability.

* Streamlined Chat Experience
Enjoy an optimized chat input that renders attachments as chips and shows them above the chat area, designed to reduce clutter. You can still reference attachments in chat using an @filename convention. Hover over the Context chip to inspect the main context information sent to the AI. Instantly discover and invoke AI actions by typing "/" in an empty chat.

* Project-wide Search Tool (Requires Content Fusion 9.0)
The AI can now search project files using wildcards, regex, and XPath filters via the new grep tool. By leveraging this tool, the AI can efficiently explore your project, resulting in improved performance on complex agentic tasks.

* Edit Document Tool for Precision
Enable the AI to perform exact string replacements in selected files through an agentic chat mode, ideal for small updates like attribute fixes or label changes.

* Tool Call Details
Hover for a summary of any tool call, or open a detailed dialog to review, copy, export, or import chat logs, facilitating audits and reuse.


What's New in Oxygen AI Positron 8.0 for Web Author

Oxygen AI Positron 8.0 for Web Author equips you with advanced AI-driven features to quickly produce and refine structured content:

* Expanded Model Support
Use newly introduced AI models (Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Haiku 4.5, xAI Grok 4 Fast, and xAI Grok 4 Fast Non Reasoning) to optimize costs, speed, or complexity.

* AI-Powered New File Creation (Requires Web Author 28.0)
Create new files with pre-populated content generated by AI. Drag and drop or copy/paste to attach text files, images, or documents, enabling the AI to create more relevant content.

* Streamlined Chat Experience
Enjoy an optimized chat input that renders attachments as chips and shows them above the chat area, designed to reduce clutter. You can still reference attachments in chat using an @filename convention. Hover over the Context chip to inspect the main context information sent to the AI. Instantly discover and invoke AI actions by typing "/" in an empty chat.

* Edit Document Tool
Within agentic chat, this allows the AI to apply precise string replacements to address minor content changes quickly.

* Tool Call Details
Hover for a summary of any tool call, or open a detailed dialog to review, copy, export, or import chat logs, facilitating audits and reuse.


Availability

Oxygen AI Positron 8.0 is available for Oxygen XML Editor, Author, and Developer (desktop and Eclipse), JSON Editor, Web Author, and Content Fusion.

For the complete list of features added in Oxygen AI Positron Assistant 8.0, please see:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/ai_positron/whats_new.html

For more information about the plug-ins visit:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/ai_positron.html

All the best,

-- 
Alin Belu
Oxygen XML Editor