iTheta PathFinder

Pathfinder and Pathbuilder Minor Release (v0.15.0)

Pathfinder is becoming a more confident guide through complex API ecosystems. This release delivers clearer plans, smarter navigation across connected data, and more relevant recommendations with fewer unnecessary questions.

What’s improved

• 📋 Clearer answers: Detailed, step-by-step guidance is now the standard Pathfinder experience.
• 🔗 Smarter data navigation: Pathfinder better understands how records connect, including relationships that span multiple objects.
• 🎯 More relevant recommendations: Plans stay focused on the user’s goal, selected fields, and available data.
• 💡 Fewer interruptions: Previously answered questions and authenticated user context are handled more consistently.
• 🔄 More resilient sessions: Pathfinder recovers more smoothly from interrupted or expired sessions.

Pathfinder and iTheta Apps Minor Release (v0.14.0)

We’re excited to share a new release focused on making Pathfinder easier to use for complex API questions, connected data exploration, and API workflow guidance.

This update provides clearer step-by-step guidance, more focused API recommendations, safer planning for data changes, and a more connected experience across iTheta products.

What’s improved

• 📋 Detailed plans are now the standard response: Pathfinder now returns the complete step-by-step plan for every query. The previous Quick Answer mode has been retired, so users no longer need to choose a response mode before submitting a question.
• 🧭 Clearer step-by-step API guidance: Detailed responses now explain which operations to use, the order in which to use them, and what information each step needs from earlier steps.
• 🎯 Better use of IDs, filters, and business constraints: Pathfinder now uses identifiers and filters supplied in the question instead of recommending broad searches or unnecessary data retrieval. Supported filters are applied at the source whenever possible.
• ✏️ Support for create, read, update, and delete workflows: Pathfinder can distinguish between retrieving, creating, changing, and deleting records, including requests that combine multiple actions into one ordered workflow.
• 🔗 Focused visual data models: Users can view the requested objects, intermediate objects, relationship order, and join conditions for the current query without navigating the entire system catalog.
• 💡 Taxonomy relationship help: Selecting an @ taxonomy object now opens relationship guidance that helps users understand how the object connects to the surrounding data model and how to form better queries.
• 🛡️ Safer and more relevant API recommendations: Unrelated operations are excluded even when they contain similar words. When an exact operation is not available, Pathfinder reports the gap instead of suggesting a potentially unsafe operation on a broader parent resource.
• 🏷️ Improved related-record resolution: Nested values, keyed collections, and fields from connected records are resolved more consistently in Pathfinder responses.
• ⚡ Faster and more reliable detailed planning: Complex requests now make better use of stored system knowledge and background processing, reducing timeout failures and improving response times.
• 🔐 Stronger security guidance: Authentication recommendations can use trusted provider documentation when API specifications are incomplete, while avoiding security decisions based only on uncertain or incomplete evidence.

A more connected iTheta experience

• Consistent product navigation: Application menus now follow the same order across iTheta Apps and Pathfinder.
• Smoother account onboarding: New accounts now receive their Frontegg activation email as part of the initial signup process.

Pathfinder Server Minor Release (v0.13.0)

We’re excited to share a new minor release for Pathfinder Server focused on improving query accuracy, relationship awareness, and API selection reliability.

This update strengthens how Pathfinder interprets connected data models, helping with API guidance.

What’s improved

• 🔗 More accurate related and nested record queries: Pathfinder now returns stronger results when queries involve related objects, nested records, and dependent data structures.
• 🧭 Smarter multi-step relationship navigation: For queries that require multiple API calls or connected data lookups, Pathfinder can now follow the correct relationships more reliably across systems and records.
• 🏷️ Improved field and output preservation: Requested fields, aliases, and output names are preserved more consistently, reducing cleanup and making results easier to use in downstream workflows.
• 🔎 Clearer schema discovery and source visibility: Field discovery now includes more detailed schema context and source information, helping users understand where fields come from and how they should be used.
• 🛡️ Safer API and field validation: Enhanced validation helps prevent unrelated APIs, endpoints, or fields from being selected, improving trust in generated workflow guidance.

We are introducing a connected iTheta product experience designed to help teams discover, understand, and build with APIs faster. This release brings together iTheta Apps, Pathfinder, and Pathbuilder into one API intelligence workflow.
This release establishes the foundation for a richer API planning experience, including validation safeguards, ingestion QA private system visibility, and early planning capabilities for more complex requirements workflows.

Introducing iTheta Apps

• One place for iTheta tools: iTheta Apps is the new portal experience for accessing iTheta products from a central home.
• Simpler access: Users can sign in once, manage their session, and launch product workflows from one place.
• Connected navigation: Pathfinder and Pathbuilder are available through a shared app experience.

A Connected API Intelligence Workflow

• Upload and validate API specs with Pathbuilder.
• Turn those specs into searchable API knowledge.
• Ask API workflow questions in Pathfinder.
• Access everything through iTheta Apps.

Pathbuilder: Build Trusted API Knowledge

• OpenAPI upload and validation: Teams can upload API specifications, validate them, and review issues before ingestion.
• Knowledge-layer creation: Pathbuilder turns approved API specs into searchable knowledge that powers Pathfinder.
• Quality safeguards: Pre-validation, post-ingestion QA, system visibility, taxonomy extraction, and indexing help keep API discovery reliable.
• Private system visibility: This release establishes the foundation for controlling which systems are visible and discoverable.

Pathfinder: Ask API Questions in Natural Language

• Improved Context-sensitive questions: Pathfinder now supports @ questions to help users understand available API operations for a system or object, including GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE.
• Improved query quality: The query engine has been improved to deliver better API results and clearer workflow guidance.

Nodebuilder: Node-RED Development in VS Code

• VS Code development workflow: Nodebuilder helps teams build and maintain Node-RED custom nodes directly from VS Code.
• Faster project setup: Developers can scaffold a new Node-RED custom node package with runtime code, editor UI, example flows, and test structure.
• Workspace-aware support: Nodebuilder can sync local project context so implementation plans are based on the actual codebase.
• Guided implementation: Developers can describe a change, review a structured plan, apply local edits, and run commands from the extension.
• Safer iteration: Backup, checkpoint, and revert support help developers stay in control while making changes.

Nodebuilder helps teams move faster from idea to working Node-RED custom node, with project context, guided changes, testing, and rollback support built into the workflow.

We are excited to announce the latest updates to Pathfinder! This release focuses on massive performance gains, smarter AI integrations, enriched user experiences, and improved system reliability.

⚡ Performance

• Massive Performance Boost: We've drastically optimized our core query execution, reducing processing times from several minutes down to under 30 seconds.

🧠 Smarter Context

• Context-Aware Querying: Introduced a new @ tagging feature that enables smarter, context-specific queries by instantly fetching related taxonomy terms based on the system you are working with.

🖥️ Enhanced User Experience

• Richer API Documentation: APIs now feature suggested usage summaries formatted in clean Markdown, along with ready-to-use curl examples.
• System Insights at a Glance: The Pathfinder interface now returns brief, helpful system descriptions when you search for specific systems.
• UI Polish & Fixes: Resolved several interface issues, including fixes to the queries viewer and ensuring dependency trees display beautifully in a structured code format.

🛠️ System Reliability

• API Standardizations: Streamlined internal network requests, improving API standards for fetching historical queries and seamlessly removed legacy authentication mechanisms from the frontend.

Features

• Users can create personal access tokens for accessing future services.
• Navigate to Manage Profile → Personal Tokens and click Generate Tokens.
• Assign a name to the token and set an expiration date.

Known Issues

• Session timeout does not log user out automatically.
• Workaround: Logout and log back in again.