Val Town
Growbots, a lead generation agency, deployed internal tools using Claude Code and the Val Town MCP server — cited as "same-day shipping" for AI-generated code.1
MCP and Claude Code became the platform's center of gravity.2 Every val's homepage now shows a copyable command to load the Val Town MCP server into Claude Code.3 The homepage added the same entry point to meet new users where existing ones already work. The MCP server also runs in Codex, Cursor, and Copilot — any LLM host that supports the protocol.
Townie gained a "Slow Mode" concept for deliberate, human-paced coding.4 Rather than one-shot generation or agentic loops, the proposed mode asks clarifying questions and pauses for programmer input at each decision — intended to keep the human engaged with what the code actually does.
Auth infrastructure completed a three-provider migration.5 The platform moved from Supabase to Clerk and finally to Better Auth; the May post documents what changed for users on OAuth flows via std/oauth.
May 26 changelog shipped several quality-of-life updates:6
- Fresh val layout (new per-val homepage design)
- Townie version history
- Val settings panel
- New Pro pricing for new users
SDK releases tracked v3.8.0 through v3.13.0. All codegen-driven API surface updates with no breaking changes. v3.13.0 added support for setting headers via environment variables and redacted API-key values from debug logs.7 v3.7.6 fixed a client bug that dropped URL params already embedded in path strings.8