<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div> I’m not sure what the “action required” is but if folks want to try this stuff out go for it.<div><br></div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GitLab <info@gitlab.com><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Reminder: Action Required by April 16 - Important changes for Duo Agent Platform and Duo Core</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">April 2, 2026 at 11:00:26 AM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bsmith@petsc.dev<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">info@gitlab.com<br></span></div><br><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; caret-color: rgb(23, 19, 33); color: rgb(23, 19, 33); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; border-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="padding: 0px;"><table class="mktoContainer" id="template-wrapper" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr class="mktoModule" id="logoHeader"><td align="left" style="padding: 20px 2px 10px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://email.gitlab.com/dc/3Agyd97uNAM8boMhA7mUnzuES7M6FxVDmlTUMuEOox8=/MTk0LVZWQy0yMjEAAAGg7a5uEZflkuFF7lFCIFdvDUeJ46VCweGkAal_XLE2XZNmsZ6dHSq95uQ6rbqIOYUirWpfWA8=__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!e20-hc-g3XFWzR77Y68T6ud0UaEKm8CXswUJAXTGWteolzFruruAa-CThdoxPzw8DD53VAKs5LiDCzfzBQXvfQ$" style="color: rgb(119, 89, 194); text-decoration: underline;"><img class="mktoImg" id="headerLogo" src="https://page.gitlab.com/rs/194-VVC-221/images/gitlab-core-logo-nobg.png" width="120" alt="GitLab" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: 12px; outline: currentcolor; text-decoration: none;"></a></td></tr><tr class="mktoModule" id="spacer1"><td aria-hidden="true" height="20" style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 0; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </td></tr><tr class="mktoModule" id="bodyText"><td style="padding: 0px 20px 20px; font-family: Inter, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(23, 19, 33); font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="mktoText" id="bodyTextContent"><p>Hi Barry,</p><p>We’re reminding you about an important upcoming change related to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://email.gitlab.com/MTk0LVZWQy0yMjEAAAGg7a5uEWjGnprBV78yEQf5aPGZTjIQ3PDxR785lqBdMO40-RbWEz5vCHda0X1npBI2asQ6og0=__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!e20-hc-g3XFWzR77Y68T6ud0UaEKm8CXswUJAXTGWteolzFruruAa-CThdoxPzw8DD53VAKs5LiDCzceGx4Jrg$" target="_blank" id="" style="color: rgb(119, 89, 194); text-decoration: underline;">Duo Core</a>. This is a follow-up from our first email sent on March 3.</p><p>We’re reaching out because your team is using GitLab Duo Chat and Code Suggestions capabilities as part of Duo Core, introduced in the 18.0 release. Use of these capabilities was included free-of-charge to Premium and Ultimate users.</p><p>Starting<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>April 16, 2026</strong>, you will no longer have access to “classic” Duo Chat and Code Suggestions as part of Duo Core.</p><p>Instead, your team has upgraded access to agentic chat and improved code suggestions, made available in the 18.8 release with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://email.gitlab.com/MTk0LVZWQy0yMjEAAAGg7a5uETPX4xri71xtEsZPmsH1eISkX-aHPjml86FeqHpPRhDt2frn8FGE_LoAgYutUv5Thog=__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!e20-hc-g3XFWzR77Y68T6ud0UaEKm8CXswUJAXTGWteolzFruruAa-CThdoxPzw8DD53VAKs5LiDCzefXf2ZaA$" target="_blank" id="" style="color: rgb(119, 89, 194); text-decoration: underline;">Duo Agent Platform</a>. You also now have $12 in included GitLab Credits* per Premium user and $24 in included GitLab Credits* per Ultimate user each month to use on these capabilities as well as other agentic capabilities.</p><p>Duo Agentic Chat is not currently supported in our WebIDEs, but your team can take advantage of the powerful Agentic Chat capabilities in the web UI, IDE extensions (VS Code or JetBrains, Visual Studio for Windows (v0.60.0+), and Duo CLI. See our<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://email.gitlab.com/MTk0LVZWQy0yMjEAAAGg7a5uEUYrtFGbBlxprrU2Zzz5ezAgkud2ndgECvdJWAqSk5LRNH6y9dcGabm85EHmhAMSAck=__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!e20-hc-g3XFWzR77Y68T6ud0UaEKm8CXswUJAXTGWteolzFruruAa-CThdoxPzw8DD53VAKs5LiDCzeKwPYA0A$" target="_blank" id="" style="color: rgb(119, 89, 194); text-decoration: underline;">GitLab Duo Agentic Chat documentation</a>for specific instructions on using Duo Agentic Chat via these entry points.</p><p>GitLab Credits is a virtual currency for all AI usage. For example, 50 code suggestions cost one credit. 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