# August 2026

> August 2026 release notes for Delegate, covering the Delegate public preview, the Cartographer business-analyst experience, and Delegate for Testing.

## August 25, 2026

### Delegate enters Public Preview

Delegate is now available in Public Preview. Delegate is UiPath's general-purpose desktop AI agent: describe, say, or demonstrate a task, and Delegate acts across your desktop and business systems to complete it, under the same identity, permissions, and audit controls as the rest of the UiPath Platform. For more information, see the [Delegate user guide](../user-guide/introduction.md).

Highlights in this preview:

* Natural language, voice, and screen-recording task input, with a conversational chat interface.
* Native computer use across desktop apps, browsers, files, and terminals.
* **Routines** — save a task as a reusable, shareable unit of work that can run on demand, on a trigger, or on a schedule.
* Enterprise governance through the UiPath Platform, including approval modes and tool-level permissions enforceable centrally via Automation Ops, and the benefit of the platform's existing identity, permissions, and audit controls — see [Governance with Automation Ops](../user-guide/centralized-configuration.md).
* Integration with UiPath Orchestrator, Test Manager, Context Grounding, and Studio.
* Connectivity to outside systems through Integration Service connectors and MCP servers.

### Cartographer enters Public Preview

**Cartographer**, Delegate's specialized profile for business analysts, is now available in Public Preview. Rather than chasing down stakeholders, scheduling interviews, and reconciling conflicting accounts by hand, you provide transcripts, SOPs, or recordings, and Cartographer drafts a process model and asks you to confirm the gaps.

Cartographer's workflow spans four phases:

* **AS-IS documentation** — you describe the process as it runs today; Cartographer builds a process model, extracts business rules, identifies gaps, and confirms a current-state process map.
* **TO-BE design** — you assign an automation mode to each step; Cartographer drafts a future-state map and detailed future-state documentation.
* **PDD generation** — Cartographer combines both states into a formatted, downloadable Process Design Document (PDD).
* **SDD generation** — from the PDD, Cartographer builds a Specification Design Document (SDD) ready for development teams, with or without coding agents.

Each session produces a confirmed AS-IS process map, a confirmed TO-BE process map color-coded by automation mode, a delivery model showing each step's current and future handling, a downloadable PDD, and a downloadable SDD.

Cartographer's long-term goal is the Map of Work — a single, versioned, governed definition of how a business process runs, so that specifications, sign-off, and audit all come from one source instead of drifting documents.

For more information, see [Cartographer overview](../user-guide/cartographer-overview.md) and [Getting started with Cartographer](../user-guide/getting-started-with-cartographer.md).

### Delegate for Testing

**Delegate for Testing** is a specialization of Delegate — UiPath's general-purpose desktop AI agent — focused on the QA/Testing persona. It connects to UiPath Test Manager natively via `uip` CLI and executes test-related tasks autonomously from a single natural language prompt.

#### Goal

**Delegate for Testing** aims to take the mental load off testers, not by replacing hands-on testing, but by automating the coordination, communication, and analysis that surrounds it.

The QA/Testing persona is a role-specific experience built on top of the general **Delegate** agent, featuring:

* A tailored home screen with testing-specific prompts by default.
* Pre-installed testing-specific skills (Test Cloud plugin).
* Access gated via Test Cloud licenses: the AppTestDeveloper license or the AppTesters license.

#### Benefits

* Single natural language prompt to execute complex test workflows, without scripting or tool-switching.
* Automated test report generation for QA Engineers, Release Managers, and Developers, ready to share in minutes.
* Autonomous manual test execution, running a plain-English manual test case from Test Manager end-to-end without scripting.
* Reduce repetitive coordination work, by handing the following to Delegate's agentic capabilities: report generation, test execution status tracking, and stakeholder communication.
* Direct Test Manager integration, with data flowing to and from Test Manager via the `uip` CLI. No manual data export is required.

#### Skills (via the Test Cloud plugin)

For the current release, the Test Cloud plugin ships with 3 core skills.

* **Automate Tests with UiPath automations** links an existing Orchestrator automation to a Test Manager test case, so the automation can be triggered and tracked as that test case's execution.

* **Generate Test Reports** generates persona-tailored, shareable reports from Test Manager execution data.

* **Execute Manual Tests** autonomously executes a manual test case on the desktop, records per-step execution traces, and publishes results back to Test Manager.