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Knock upgrades email layouts, WorkOS expands IT contacts, and reusable agent skills arrive
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- Hashim Warren
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Coverage: April 20–26, 2026.
Launch of the Week
Knock, a notification API, launched Layouts 2.0, combining a three-pane editor, layout usage visibility, branding overrides, and dark-mode assets. Seeing which workflows depend on a shared layout could make multi-brand messaging easier to maintain, a practical differentiator when comparing Courier.
Company Launch
useknockout, an image-processing API, introduced a hosted beta that removes image backgrounds and returns transparent cutouts. It offers developers an alternative to remove.bg, with open-source code available for teams that want to host the service themselves.
Enterprise Watch
WorkOS, an enterprise authentication platform, expanded IT contact management from one contact to as many as 20 per organization, with collection and editing through its Admin Portal. That could reduce dependence on a single administrator during setup or certificate renewal, an operational detail worth testing alongside Clerk.
GTM Trends
Knock, a notification API, added reusable skills to its dashboard agent, letting teams turn recurring work such as copy and link checks into shared commands. Making the product useful for daily marketing operations could strengthen Knock against Courier beyond the initial developer integration, although agent edits still need review.
More Devtool News
- ✨ WorkOS, an enterprise authentication platform, released a Groups API for named collections of organization members. Representing teams and departments directly could reduce custom grouping logic, but applications still need to keep those memberships aligned with their own business rules; Auth0 is an alternative.
- ✨ WorkOS, an enterprise authentication platform, added custom roles scoped to resource types, allowing different role definitions for types such as projects and workspaces. The finer scope fits more complex applications, but also increases the permission model teams must understand and test; Clerk competes in identity and organization management.
- ✨ Liveblocks, a provider of real-time collaboration APIs, improved overlapping comments in its Tiptap integration, showing all overlapping comment marks in anchored and floating thread components. This preserves discussion visibility when reviewers annotate the same text, though teams still need a clear interface for dense threads; Ably offers alternative realtime infrastructure.