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# Release Notes

  

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## October 2026 (2026.3) — Tableau Studio general availability

Tableau Studio is the evolution of Tableau Desktop, bringing it into the age of agents and AI. All classic Tableau Desktop authoring features remain fully available and supported, alongside a new set of natural-language, agent, and API capabilities. This release introduces the components below.

- ADD **Tableau Agent**: A Claude-optimized chat and configuration experience built into Tableau Studio, backed by an infrastructure that monitors and orchestrates [Tableau MCP![(opens in new window)](/v0.0/api/studio-dev-guide/en-us/assets/external-link.svg)](https://git.soma.salesforce.com/pages/cx-labs/tableau-mcp-tabstudio/docs/intro) and the Tableau External Client API. It provides guardrails, self-correction, and real-time awareness of the formatting, configuration, and data of the Tableau project you have in focus. See [Tableau Studio Basics](/v0.0/api/studio-dev-guide/en-us/tableau-studio-basics.html). To start using it, see [Get Started with Tableau Agent](/v0.0/api/studio-dev-guide/en-us/get-started-with-tableau-agent.html).
- ADD **Customization**: Tailor Tableau Studio to your standards by customizing skills and expertise, creating your own skills, and starting from authoring templates. See [Customize Tableau Agent](/v0.0/api/studio-dev-guide/en-us/customize-tableau-agent.html).

**Related:**

- UPDATE **Authoring reasoning and tools in Tableau MCP**: [Tableau MCP![(opens in new window)](/v0.0/api/studio-dev-guide/en-us/assets/external-link.svg)](https://git.soma.salesforce.com/pages/cx-labs/tableau-mcp-tabstudio/docs/intro) turns your natural-language prompts into authoring actions, adding Tableau viz authoring skills, deep functional and procedural knowledge, and data visualization best practices, plus new tools that drive authoring actions. See [References and Guides](/v0.0/api/studio-dev-guide/en-us/references-and-guides.html#tableau-mcp).
- ADD **Tableau External Client API**: A native API that gives your agent or scripts programmatic access to the Tableau Desktop capabilities in Tableau Studio, enabling repeatable, scripted authoring. See [Use Tableau Studio Headless](/v0.0/api/studio-dev-guide/en-us/use-tableau-studio-headless.html#directly-call-the-tableau-external-client-api).
- ADD **Headless authoring with your own agent**: Connect directly to Tableau MCP from the agent of your choice to author without the Tableau Agent harness. See [Use Tableau Studio Headless](/v0.0/api/studio-dev-guide/en-us/use-tableau-studio-headless.html#use-your-agent-to-author-with-tableau-mcp).
- ADD **Open source skills and expertise**: Learn about the skills and expertise that the Tableau Studio agent uses, download them for customization, and contribute to the catalog. See [Tableau AI Utilities](https://git.soma.salesforce.com/pages/cx-labs/studio-skills/skills/).

  

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