skillmeld 0.2.0 — discovery now works out of the box
The hosted catalog is live: a signed, hash-pinned index of community skills rebuilt weekly, so discover and fetch work with zero setup. Plus hardened Skills-API emit and a security bump.
News
New tools, libraries, and updates worth knowing — curated.
Wireify 0.2.0 — your own Claude Code, live in Grasshopper
The second .ify tool is on the Rhino Package Manager: stage inputs on a Wireify socket, say what the component should do, and Claude converts it in place into a stock Python 3 component. Saved files carry no plugin dependency.
Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5, a same-price upgrade to Sonnet 4.6
A drop-in replacement for Sonnet 4.6 at the same price, with its biggest gains in coding and agentic work, adaptive thinking on by default, and a 1M-token context window.
Hermes Agent — an open agent that learns from its own runs
An MIT-licensed agent from Nous Research that creates and refines its own skills from experience, runs across Telegram, Discord, Slack, and the CLI, and works with any LLM provider.
OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna
A new model family — Sol (most capable), Terra (a cheaper balanced option), and Luna (fastest and lowest-cost) — out first as a limited preview to vetted partners through the API and Codex.
build123d 0.11.0 — parametric CAD in plain Python
A code-first CAD framework on the OpenCASCADE kernel, with a clean Pythonic API for precise, manufacturable models.
Anthropic puts Claude in Slack with Claude Tag
Invite Claude into a channel and @-tag it to hand off work — it runs asynchronously, keeps channel context, and follows up on its own.
Bonsai brings native OpenBIM authoring to Blender
The IfcOpenShell-based add-on (formerly BlenderBIM) edits real IFC data directly inside Blender — no lossy round-trips.
73 deterministic Claude skills for the Blender AEC stack
A community skill package spanning Blender, Bonsai, IfcOpenShell, and Sverchok — aimed at reliable, repeatable AEC Python code.
The Model Context Protocol settles in as the integration standard
A year on, MCP is the common way agents reach tools and data — adopted across the major vendors, with thousands of servers in production.
Anthropic: "Equipping agents for the real world with Agent Skills"
Why packaging procedural know-how as loadable skills beats stuffing it all into the prompt — and how progressive disclosure keeps context cheap.
Anthropic: "Building Effective Agents"
The essay behind a lot of current practice — simple, composable patterns over heavy frameworks, with orchestrator-workers as the workhorse.