Release roundup—November 6, 2026

October was mostly treats. Descript reads the brand guidelines nobody else opens and turns them into a full layout pack. Underlord learned skills, so you can teach it a workflow once and call it up with a slash. And deleting a project isn't forever anymore. It waits in the trash for 30 days, in case you panic. The smaller stuff is below.

This is a big one. Building on-brand layouts by hand means hours of nudging text boxes. Now you give Descript your brand guidelines, your logo, and your colors, or just describe a look. Descript’s AI shows you four directions. Pick one, and it builds a full layout pack in your brand that everyone on your drive can use on every video.

Every layout in the pack is editable, and you can ask Underlord to change any of them. Underlord also styles the scenes in your project for you. Tell it what you want, and it lays them out.

Available on paid plans. Generating a pack uses AI credits.

Typing the same instructions into Underlord every time gets old. A skill is a set of instructions Underlord can reuse. Type / in the Underlord chat to pick one of Descript's skills, or choose Create skill to write your own. When an edit goes the way you wanted, save that conversation as a skill. You can use more than one skill in a message, or add your own notes to one.

Skills replace prompt templates. Templates you saved yourself won't turn into skills on their own. To keep one, go to Settings → Skills → View templates and choose Save as skill. Templates switch off on November 30.

Deleting a project now moves it to the trash. Click Trash in your sidebar to see what you deleted and restore it. Each project stays there for 30 days before it's deleted for good. You can also select several projects and delete them at once.

You remember the shot. The whiteboard, the product on the desk, the sunset over the parking lot. You don’t remember the file name, because the file name is IMG_4471. On Enterprise drives, search now looks at what’s in your images and videos, not just what they’re called. Describe the shot, and it comes up.

It works everywhere you search your drive: the search bar, Underlord, the Descript MCP, and the API. So you can ask Underlord, or Claude or ChatGPT through the MCP, to find the whiteboard shot for you.

Available on Enterprise drives.

On Enterprise drives, search finds images and videos by what's in them, not just by file name. You can find the shot with the whiteboard without knowing what the file is called. It also works when you search through Underlord, the Descript MCP, or the API.

When you use Descript in ChatGPT, it can open an upload panel. Pick a file from your device, and it goes straight into a Descript project, ready for Underlord to edit.

Usually you find out about a dead mic after the call. Now Rooms warns you while you record. If a camera or screen share stays black for 10 seconds, or a mic is nearly silent for 30, you get a warning. Hosts and producers see warnings for everyone in the room. Recording keeps going either way.

Firefox is officially supported. The warning you used to get when you opened Descript in Firefox is gone.

Descript has a new model for matching each word to its spot in the audio. Words land in the wrong place less often, and transcripts come back faster.

Timeline exports now carry your comments as markers, so your notes show up in Premiere, Resolve, or Pro Tools right where you left them. It works in every format: EDL, AAF, FCPXML, Premiere XML, DaVinci Resolve XML, and SESX.

And there's even more: