New tools, libraries, and updates worth knowing — curated.https://ifylab.dev/https://ifylab.dev/news/robotic-constructability/https://ifylab.dev/news/robotic-constructability/The third .ify tool: 999 simulated designs of a robotically assembled CLT house, scored on carbon, robot time, and how comfortably a robotic arm places the panels. Live Pareto fronts, priority re-ranking, parallel axes, and every render, no install.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ifylab.dev/news/skillmeld-0-3-0/https://ifylab.dev/news/skillmeld-0-3-0/Four new core rules close gaps a taxonomy coverage benchmark surfaced, NVIDIA SkillSpector joins the optional scanners, the weekly catalog build detects licenses with scancode, and a new scout searches the SkillsMP registry for candidates.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ifylab.dev/news/skillmeld-0-2-0/https://ifylab.dev/news/skillmeld-0-2-0/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.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ifylab.dev/news/wireify-0-2-0/https://ifylab.dev/news/wireify-0-2-0/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.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ifylab.dev/news/claude-sonnet-5/https://ifylab.dev/news/claude-sonnet-5/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.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ifylab.dev/news/hermes-agent-nous/https://ifylab.dev/news/hermes-agent-nous/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.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ifylab.dev/news/openai-gpt-5-6-sol/https://ifylab.dev/news/openai-gpt-5-6-sol/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.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ifylab.dev/news/build123d-0-11/https://ifylab.dev/news/build123d-0-11/A code-first CAD framework on the OpenCASCADE kernel, with a clean Pythonic API for precise, manufacturable models.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ifylab.dev/news/claude-tag-slack/https://ifylab.dev/news/claude-tag-slack/Invite Claude into a channel and @-tag it to hand off work — it runs asynchronously, keeps channel context, and follows up on its own.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ifylab.dev/news/bonsai-openbim-blender/https://ifylab.dev/news/bonsai-openbim-blender/The IfcOpenShell-based add-on (formerly BlenderBIM) edits real IFC data directly inside Blender — no lossy round-trips.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ifylab.dev/news/aec-claude-skill-package/https://ifylab.dev/news/aec-claude-skill-package/A community skill package spanning Blender, Bonsai, IfcOpenShell, and Sverchok — aimed at reliable, repeatable AEC Python code.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ifylab.dev/news/mcp-2026-standard/https://ifylab.dev/news/mcp-2026-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.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ifylab.dev/news/agent-skills-real-world/https://ifylab.dev/news/agent-skills-real-world/Why packaging procedural know-how as loadable skills beats stuffing it all into the prompt — and how progressive disclosure keeps context cheap.Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ifylab.dev/news/building-effective-agents/https://ifylab.dev/news/building-effective-agents/The essay behind a lot of current practice — simple, composable patterns over heavy frameworks, with orchestrator-workers as the workhorse.Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT