Dagster shipped major product work alongside educational content exploring how teams use the platform. Version 1.13 introduced partitioned asset checks, virtual assets, and skills—a new capability for encoding domain knowledge into the orchestration layer. In parallel, the team published guides on testing AI-generated code at scale, built Compass to surface operational insights from Dagster+ telemetry, and released a children's book explaining asset dependencies as a narrative device, reflecting a broader push toward making data infrastructure more legible to teams building with it.