Build faster, debug smarter, and make AI safer with new DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform features

Build faster, debug smarter, and make AI safer with new DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform features Build better knowledge bases with activity logs Build faster with agent templates Automate workflows with n8n integration Make AI safer with enhanced guardrails Always evolving for developers About the author Try DigitalOcean for free Related Articles Announcing Gateway API Support for DigitalOcean Kubernetes What's New on DigitalOcean App Platform Single Sign-On is Now Available, Strengthening Security and Simplifying Authentication By Grace Morgan Updated: September 19, 2025 3 min read The way developers build with AI is changing fast—and so is the DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform. Debugging data, reinventing agents from scratch, or connecting AI to workflows manually takes time and slows you down. The DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform is evolving to tackle these challenges, helping you work smarter, faster, and more confidently. This month, we’re introducing four new updates designed to make AI development more transparent, productive, and secure: Knowledge base activity logs: track and debug indexing jobs → Knowledge base activity logs: track and debug indexing jobs → Agent templates: start projects faster → Agent templates: start projects faster → n8n integration: automate workflows → n8n integration: automate workflows → Enhanced guardrails: make AI safer → Enhanced guardrails: make AI safer → When you add data to a knowledge base, it isn’t always clear what’s happening behind the scenes. Did the indexing job finish? Did certain files fail to index? Why isn’t the data showing up in the knowledge base? Until now, debugging knowledge base inputs meant guesswork. Activity logs give you clear visibility into every run, so you always know what worked, what failed, and why. Real-time banners for active jobs Real-time banners for active jobs History view to review past runs History view to review past runs CSV downloads with per-source error details CSV downloads with per-source error details With this update, you can quickly pinpoint issues, fix them, and be confident about your knowledge base without slogging through trial and error. Explore Activity Logs → Why start from scratch when you can start from a working agent? Agent templates are code-first projects available on GitHub that you can clone, customize, and deploy in minutes. llm-Auditor Agent: Adds fact-checking using Tavily, an AI tool that verifies answers for accuracy, with optional knowledge base grounding. Product Documentation Agent: Transforms product documentation into object storage, builds and indexes a knowledge base, deploys a citation-rich answering agent, and optimizes it for high RAG performance as a support chatbot. SQL Agent: Translates natural language into safe, read-only SQL queries. Twilio API Agent: Sends marketing texts via Twilio with ready-made logic.