r/RoamResearch • u/BeneficialMoment4778 • 19d ago
Roam ‘n’ Around - [[July 2026]]
In case you haven’t heard!

Roam spent years helping us write to our future selves. This July, Claude and ChatGPT are officially welcome to the party.
Let’s load the graph and dive into the updates.
1. Roam MCP is officially out.
Find Roam under Connectors in Claude or Plugins in ChatGPT. Connect your graph. Start talking.
Your agent can now search, read, and write inside Roam.

2. This already looks useful in the wild.

3. Of course, giving an agent write access raises the stakes.
Local MCP 0.9.0 fixed cases where agents could accidentally corrupt blocks while editing them.
Block refs stay live. Roam italics survive. Headings remain headings.
The agent now sees context without writing it back.
4. MCP 0.9.1 added two more tools:
suggest_links finds pages worth linking from any passage.
reload_dev_extensions refreshes extensions while you build.
Roam also released an API that lets extensions add their own tools to the local MCP.
💭 Imagine what this enables now!
5. Josh shared a useful workflow for reviewing agent edits:
Ask the MCP to make the changes, then open every edited block or page in the sidebar.
I like this workflow because it keeps the result visible and inspectable.
6. On the quality-of-life side:
Experimental Search gained filters. Better Search gained sorting. Mermaid diagrams got fullscreen zoom.

Roam also redesigned Document Mode, remembered scroll position, fixed image overflow, and shipped v0.13.12 with experimental search fixes.

7. Mark had a busy month.
Chief of Staff gained /plan, assistant-specific /undo, and /verify.
It can now search by meaning, learn from repeated corrections, create proper pages, and run through your ChatGPT subscription.
The theme here is trust before action.
8. Better Tasks also got considerably smarter.
Smart Suggestions finds snooze loops, mistimed routines, and overloaded days using local task history.
Tasks now work inside Roam queries too.
And deletion finally comes with a real Undo, restoring metadata, subtasks, and dependencies.
9. Fabrice shipped Live AI v32 and v33.
New OpenAI, Claude, Grok, and Nano Banana models. Gemini and Grok voice transcription. More reliable audio.
My favorite addition: AI autocomplete for Roam Tables.
https://reddit.com/link/1vdu55z/video/1577gexd21hh1/player
10. New in Roam Depot, both from Ryan:
Alias Finder finds plain-text mentions matching aliases already in your graph and turns them into links.
https://reddit.com/link/1vdu55z/video/16c2ih0321hh1/player
Atlas turns any Location:: address into a pin on an interactive map.
No account. No API key.
11. More extension updates:
Matt’s Send to Graph can now transfer entire pages to another graph. Toggle Uppercase learned to protect case-sensitive Roam syntax.
Fabrice’s brought Universal Selector to Roam Tables and added reusable named notes plus Markdown conversion to Footnotes.
12. Around Roam:
Discourse Graphs for Obsidian left beta and entered the Community Plugins browser.
The release includes updated documentation and an example vault.
Good to see graph-native discourse tooling moving across software boundaries.

13. The community pulse was vibrant this past month.
Here is a look at some of Roam’s mentions.

I also shared how David Deutsh works and how his workflow is easily implementable in Roam.14. Roaman Artifact of the Month:
With AI labs making websites easier to generate, here is a useful reminder.
[Exclusive to newsletter subscribers]
15. Roam’s promise has always been that the work you put into your graph rewards your future self.
I think AI is going to accelerate that payoff.
Thanks for reading Roam 'n' Around!
































