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npx @buildinternet/releases get val-townRecently Shipped9 releases · updated Oct 13, 2026
Recently shipped Val Town Access, one-click restricted access for internal tools, and AGENTS.md support across vals, users, and orgs.
Val Town Access locks a val down to your team. Restrict any val to your team, a handful of people, or an email domain — no source changes, existing vals and URLs keep working, and Val Town handles sessions and identity. Agents can flip the switch too.
Agent instructions now follow your code.
- An
AGENTS.mdinside a val is read automatically whenever Townie opens that val. - Standing personal preferences live in a
.configval, editable atval.town/settings/preferences. - Orgs share instructions the same way, under Settings > Preferences.
- The MCP server surfaces all of it to any agent, not just Townie.
Docs and discovery were rebuilt on the platform itself.
- docs.val.town is now written and hosted on Val Town, replacing the Astro+Cloudflare site.
- A new
/discoverpage collects templates, staff picks, and integrations. - Townie's default model is now DeepSeek V4 Flash, roughly 100x cheaper than Opus.
MCP remains the front door. Every val homepage shows a copyable command for loading the MCP server into Claude Code, and the first-party plugin bundles MCP and platform Skills into a single npx plugins add val-town/plugins install for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Townie's Slow Mode keeps the agent asking questions at human pace instead of looping.
Older threads. Scoped blob storage isolates blobs per val rather than per account. Auth moved from Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth. SDK releases v3.9.0–v3.13.0 added headers via environment variables and redacted API-key values from debug logs.
I've long envied Zapier's extensive connectors library. I wish our app – Val Town, a vibe coding platform – could one-click connect to every app.
One of the best things about working at small companies is the variety. Every few months, your job shifts and you have to pick up a new set of skills. The last couple months I've become the security guy.
Val Town now supports AGENTS.md. This is a feature we craved for ourselves and think you may find quite useful.
Quick is Shopify's "internal hosting platform for the AI era." It looks both useful and fun. Reading about Quick struck a chord with us because they were pretty much describing Val Town—but only for Shopify employees.
Since the early days, vals on Val Town have had the ability to store blobs on an S3-like service. Just import a val from the standard library and it works, with no setup or configuration. It's a tremendously useful and popular feature.
3.13.0 (2026-05-13)
3.12.0 (2026-04-20)
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