docs(release-notes): Agents release notes for August 13, 2026

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What

Auto-generated public Airbyte Agents release notes for August 13, 2026, covering changes merged between 07:00 UTC on August 13 and 07:00 UTC on August 14, 2026.

Requested by the scheduled sonar_release_notes run (GitHub Actions, 6 AM Pacific weekdays).

How

Scanned airbytehq/sonar, airbytehq/airbyte-agent-sdk, and airbytehq/airbyte-agent-cli for merges in the window, reviewed each diff, and applied the sonar-release-notes inclusion gates. One entry qualified.

airbytehq/sonar

The following pull requests are included in release notes.

PR	Description	Reason
#6188	Adds semantic search configuration for Zendesk Support ticket comments, projecting parent ticket fields onto comment results.	User-notable connector capability on a publicly available connector (zendesk-support has no experimental availability state); mirrors the GitHub semantic search entry from August 10.

The following pull requests were merged, but not included in release notes.

PR	Description	Reason
#6187	Adds organization-value fallthrough for organization-authored skill runtime variables.	Organization skills are gated end-to-end on the ff_org_skills / adp.skills.organization-authoring.enabled dual flag, so the feature is not reachable by end users. Fails the public reachability gate.
#6173	Adds draft/publish/archive version lifecycle management for organization skills.	Same dual-flag gating as #6187; not publicly reachable.
#6199	Centralizes Iceberg location construction in the Context Store.	Internal refactor with no behavior change.
#6194	Centralizes semantic retrieval ranking.	Internal refactor with no behavior change.
#6172	Centralizes Context Store read routing.	Internal refactor with no behavior change.
#6165	Shares an existing executor across runtimes in the internal implement agent skill.	Internal developer tooling and skill documentation only.
#6160	Deletes unused agent-harness machinery.	Internal developer tooling only.
#6157	Fixes five defects in the internal agent harness skills and runbooks.	Internal developer tooling and documentation only.
#6203	Regenerates the Sonar client used by the operator MCP.	Generated-code chore with no user-facing change.
#6202, #6200, #6193, #6189	Scheduled knowledge graph refreshes.	Internal documentation indexes with no user-facing change.

airbytehq/airbyte-agent-sdk

No pull requests are included in release notes.

The following commits were merged, but not included in release notes.

Commit	Description	Reason
92fcbe7	Automated sync of unified package v0.1.304 from sonar@f85c46d98.	Generated mirror of sonar #6188 plus regenerated model reordering; the user-facing outcome is already covered by the Connectors entry.

airbytehq/airbyte-agent-cli

No commits were merged in the window.

Review guide

1. docs/release_notes/agents/readme.md — one new ## August 13, 2026 section added above the existing August 12 entry.

User Impact

Documentation only. Publishes the August 13 Agents release notes entry.

Can this PR be safely reverted and rolled back?

• YES 💚
• NO ❌

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Pull request overview

Adds the auto-generated public Airbyte Agents release notes entry for August 13, 2026, documenting the single user-notable change that qualified for inclusion during the specified scan window.

Changes:

• Adds a new August 13, 2026 section to Agents release notes.
• Documents a Zendesk Support semantic search improvement (including ticket comments with projected parent ticket details).

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