December brought the debut of our AI Trace Assistant, a debugging companion that has contextual understanding of your Tusk Drift observability data. Go beyond Sentry-level observability by drilling into request and response bodies.
We also shipped CoverBot support for Java/Kotlin repos and made reliability improvements to Tusk Drift's deviation analysis and test suite maintenance.
The Node.js SDK now has Turbopack support for Next.js, while the Tusk Drift CLI has an onboarding agent that installs and initializes the SDK with a single command. We've given the CLI secure replay functionality that runs all test operations in a local sandbox to prevent unintended external requests.
Not a bad way to close out 2025.
Platform
Major Features
AI Trace Assistant: Chat with your traces to debug errors and analyze performance trends, comes with built-in sandbox integration, tool calling, and session management
Observability Dashboard: Get full visibility into traces and spans recorded by Tusk Drift; drill down into the request and response bodies of individual spans
MCP Server for Tusk Drift: Model Context Protocol integration for Claude Code and other MCP clients (only part of AI Trace Assistant currently)
Unit Test Selection for New Pipeline: Allow test case selection when committing unit tests generated using our speedier test generation pipeline
Java/Kotlin Coverage Analysis: CoverBot now supports Cobertura coverage provider
Test Quality Improvements
Enhanced Tusk Drift's deviation analysis and test replay functionality with better error handling
Added intelligent API test validation before moving test from "Draft" to "In Suite"
DevEx Enhancements
Karma test framework support for Tusk Tester
UI/UX revamp across Tusk Drift run pages in web app
CLI
Major Features
Onboarding Agent: Automatically install and initialize the Tusk Drift SDK in one CLI command
Secure Replay: All test replay operations now run in a fenced local sandbox, preventing unintended external requests during testing
Suite-Wide Value Matching: Improved mock matching for more reliable Tusk Drift test replay
Multiple Git Remotes Support: Cloud onboarding now handles repos with multiple git remotes
DevEx Enhancements
Added JSON output option for trace list command, enabling programmatic processing
Better terminal rendering when color support is unavailable
SDKs
Node.js
Turbopack Bundler Support: Next.js compatibility with modern bundler
Instrumentation Manifest Generation: Build time manifest generation for improved performance
Python
We're actively building out the Python SDK, will announce more updates in the coming weeks!
