Vanta Agent New Side Panel Experience Rolling Out for Improved User Workflow

·Jun 18, 2026 09:23 PM(edited)·

Vanta Agent slide-in panel Vanta's rolling out an improved Vanta Agent experience. The floating drawer that always blocking your content? Gone. The Agent now slides in as a side panel, sitting right alongside your page so you can see your work and the Agent at the same time. No overlays. No losing your place. Just a clean, smooth slide every time. Before/After image below. This rollout is starting with a small group of customers, so consider it a gradual rollout. Want early access??? Let me know by reacting to this post with the party slide this is now shipped!

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Jacob G.
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hey Mark O. Rob G. Patrick W. this actually ended up being turned on across the board sooner than expected, so, it's live!
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Patrick W.
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I noticed! It's great. So much more accessible this way. First bit of feedback is it would be great to have the ability to pin it to the screen at all times, or at least control in/out like with the menu bar on the left. I found that I had an open chat then navigated away and it disappeared, then I couldn't get that conversation back to being docked. Could be user error but that's my initial experience
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Jacob G.
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hey Patrick W. glad to hear it! and thanks for this initial feedback, exactly what we're looking for. ill get this in front of the team
Jacob G.
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hi again Patrick W.: the agent window already stays open as you navigate to different pages in vanta; is that not happening for you? Or do you mean you want it to stay if you close the window/tab and then open it again?
Patrick W.
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You're right it does work when I stay in the same window, I think it's as I'm opening a new tab that I'm getting mixed up with. The agent often provides a link to a document as part of the answer and I'll open a new tab to look into that, but the agent disappears and I couldn't find a way to get it back on the new tab. However, I've now realised the star icon on the top right does make the docked agent open/close, which is great, so I can just click the 3 dots to find the chat again. In short - ignore me it's all perfect
Jacob G.
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haha ill never ignore you Patrick W.! 😆 jokes aside, totally see what you mean. no worries; im glad you brought it up anyway; you talked it through and found the solution, so thats a success in my book! keep me posted on any other thoughts/feedback that come up, im listening!
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