# New in Confluent Intelligence and AI Tools: Making Agents Native to the Stream, Expanded Model Support, New Agent Skills, and Copilot

DevFeed: [New in Confluent Intelligence and AI Tools: Making Agents Native to the Stream, Expanded Model Support, New Agent Skills, and Copilot](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/new-in-confluent-intelligence-and-ai-tools-making-agents-native-to-the-stream-expanded-model-support-new-agent-skills-and-copilot-11547.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.confluent.io/blog/2026-q3-confluent-intelligence-ai-update/>)

Author: Confluent Staff

Published: 2026-08-18T14:00:10Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Confluent: Data in motion](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/confluent-data-in-motion.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [apache-flink](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/apache-flink.md>), [Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kafka.md>), [streaming-data-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/streaming-data-processing.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>), [MCP Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mcp-server.md>), [Agent Skills](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agent-skills.md>), [MCP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mcp.md>), [Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [ibm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ibm.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-ready-data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-ready-data.md>), [ai-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-tools.md>), [apache-flink](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apache-flink.md>), [confluent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/confluent.md>), [confluent-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/confluent-cloud.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [ibm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ibm.md>), [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp.md>), [mcp-server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp-server.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [skills](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/skills.md>), [streaming-data-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/streaming-data-processing.md>), [support](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/support.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>)

## AI overview

Confluent announces updates to Confluent Intelligence and related AI tools for building production AI systems on Apache Kafka and Apache Flink. The release adds expanded time-series model support, a generally available Real-Time Context Engine, updates to the fully managed MCP Server, Agent Skills for AI coding assistants, and Confluent Copilot. The features are intended to provide agents and applications with fresh business context and governed access to live data and infrastructure.

## Source excerpt

Explore new AI features and AI tools: support for IBM Granite Time Series models and TimesFM models (EA), enhanced Real-Time Context Engine experience, new Agent Skills, Confluent Copilot