For the last 18 months, many of us at Posit have been focused on building AI agents designed to help RStudio and Positron users get their work done faster and more effectively. And we truly believe that we’ve succeeded! Our latest agent, Posit Assistant, is extremely good and getting better with each passing week.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06-11_history-of-posit-data-science-agents/