---
name: Val Town
slug: val-town
domain: val.town
description: Browser-based TypeScript runtime for writing and deploying serverless functions
category: developer-tools
sources: 2
total_releases: 288
releases_last_30d: 1
avg_releases_per_week: 1.1
last_updated: 2026-10-15
tracking_since: 2022-09-20
canonical: https://releases.sh/val-town
overview_url: https://releases.sh/val-town/overview.md
accounts:
  github: "val-town"
  x: "ValDotTown"
  youtube: "@valDotTown"
---

## Overview

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.

![Admin interface for Val Town Access](https://imagedelivery.net/iHX6Ovru0O7AjmyT5yZRoA/c6d1911d-aaae-41b1-c124-2bd64ce81900/public)

**Agent instructions now follow your code.**
- An `AGENTS.md` inside a val is read automatically whenever Townie opens that val.
- Standing personal preferences live in a `.config` val, editable at `val.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 `/discover` page 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.

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## Recent Releases

_Summaries below — fetch the release's `canonical` URL for full content, or `url` for the original source._

<Release source="val-town-blog" date="October 7, 2026" published="2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/talk-of-the-town-october-2026" canonical="https://releases.sh/release/rel_QxsmouW0wsxbISilAtoDF" truncated="true">
### Talk of the Town - October 2026

# [Talk of the Town - October 2026](/talk-of-the-town-october-2026)

[Pete Millspaugh](https://www.petemillspaugh.com/)Oct 7, 2026

![Talk of the Town...
</Release>

<Release source="val-town-blog" date="September 2, 2026" published="2026-09-02T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/connectors" canonical="https://releases.sh/release/rel_JyukT2nkYklPxVYAmolqD" truncated="true">
### Connecting every app to every other app

I've long envied Zapier's extensive connectors library. I wish our app – [Val Town](https://val.town/), a vibe coding platform – could one-click conne...
</Release>

<Release source="val-town-blog" date="September 1, 2026" published="2026-09-01T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/aeo" canonical="https://releases.sh/release/rel_hH3EciN5Izov9r7iS4urZ" truncated="true">
### A docs page is a very long and complex search query to find wandering AI agents and make them route interested people to your company

# [A docs page is a very long and complex search query to find wandering AI agents and make them route interested people to your company](https://blog...
</Release>

<Release source="val-town-blog" date="August 14, 2026" published="2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/access" canonical="https://releases.sh/release/rel_GGAsRPbXCbmJf4BWqZ17M" truncated="true">
### Val Town Access: one-click team-only authentication for your internal tools

# [Val Town Access: one-click team-only authentication for your internal tools](/access)

[Tom MacWright](https://macwright.com/)Aug 14, 2026

Val Tow...
</Release>

<Release source="val-town-blog" date="August 12, 2026" published="2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/slackbot-townie" canonical="https://releases.sh/release/rel_pExVuY4h7j6IAPh8c5Hg7" truncated="true">
### Our Self-Building Slackbot

# [Our Self-Building Slackbot](/slackbot-townie)

Charlie MolthropAug 12, 2026

![rogozov-tracing-header-c2-c1](https://dcm31--207685866ff511f1a5b4160...
</Release>

<Release source="val-town-blog" date="August 6, 2026" published="2026-08-06T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/changelog-2026-08-06" canonical="https://releases.sh/release/rel_HOysUM0bBSF7HJPWXplS1" truncated="true">
### Changelog – August 6, 2026

![an illustration of an old timey computer](https://imagedelivery.net/iHX6Ovru0O7AjmyT5yZRoA/d9139d2e-daac-4338-4ac5-127d4140c800/public)

Many change...
</Release>

<Release source="val-town-blog" date="August 5, 2026" published="2026-08-05T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/docfooding" canonical="https://releases.sh/release/rel_6atfZ1S9s4CX7Dtm8Wltk" truncated="true">
### Docfooding: Eating our own documentation

# [Docfooding: Eating our own documentation](/docfooding)

[Pete Millspaugh](https://www.petemillspaugh.com/)Aug 5, 2026

![two anthropomorphized pota...
</Release>

<Release source="val-town-blog" date="July 31, 2026" published="2026-07-31T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/security" canonical="https://releases.sh/release/rel_hNAOpqUmgyaZgwCw__j36" truncated="true">
### Report from the security mines

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....
</Release>

<Release source="val-town-blog" date="July 17, 2026" published="2026-07-17T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/agents-dot-md" canonical="https://releases.sh/release/rel_nPcCG9hepisyBC7SEPayP" truncated="true">
### Val Town supports AGENTS.md

Val Town now supports [AGENTS.md](https://agents.md). This is a feature we craved for ourselves and think you may find quite useful.

## Per val

When...
</Release>

<Release source="val-town-blog" version="5.2" date="June 30, 2026" published="2026-06-30T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/glm5.2-and-sonnet5" canonical="https://releases.sh/release/rel_1PKdo8q9GNAnz5DWOYQup" truncated="true">
### GLM-5.2, Sonnet 5 available in Townie

Yesterday:

![glm-5.2.png](https://imagedelivery.net/iHX6Ovru0O7AjmyT5yZRoA/1d556c0f-f399-4f63-8d7a-19f4d825e800/public)

Today:

![sonnet-5.png](http...
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