Ask without leaving your workflow​

The Assistant is now available from a right-side sidebar throughout Venue.sh. Open it while you browse your catalog, review TechDocs, launch a template, or work in another supported area of the dashboard.

• Start anywhere - Begin a new chat or return to your current conversation without navigating to the full Assistant page.
• Add page context - On a supported page, choose Add current page to context to help the Assistant understand what you're viewing.
• Continue past conversations - Search your chat history, resume a conversation, pin important chats, or delete conversations you no longer need.
• Stay in control - Choose an AI model and thinking effort, enable web search when available, or stop a response while it is being generated.
• Switch to the full experience - Open a sidebar conversation on the full Assistant page when you want more room.

For example, add the current page to context and ask:

• "Summarize this catalog entity"
• "What inputs do I need before running this template?"
• "What repositories need attention here?"

More reliable repository ingestion​

Repository ingestion now handles longer jobs and larger file sets more reliably. Venue.sh releases resources as files are processed and keeps the application responsive while it prepares repository content for Assistant search and summaries.

• Fewer interruptions - Large repository ingestions are less likely to stop because of resource pressure.
• No workflow changes - Your existing ingestion, search, and summary workflows continue to work as before.

See Also​

• Assistant - Ask questions about your software catalog, documentation, repositories, and enabled integrations.
• Ingestion & Summary - Enable repository indexing and AI-generated summaries.

Discover Venue.sh from your AI tool​

The Venue MCP endpoint now publishes resources and prompts in addition to its existing tools, so any MCP client (e.g., Cursor or Claude Desktop) can discover what's available without you writing a single prompt by hand.

• Getting-started guide - A markdown resource covering the endpoint's capabilities and example workflows.
• Tool catalog - A live resource listing every available tool, its category, and its input schema.
• Enabled plugins - A resource scoped to your organization showing which integrations are enabled.
• Catalog entities - A resource template for fetching a bounded list of catalog entities by kind (e.g., Component, API, Template).
• Guided prompts - Two new prompts, how-to-search-catalog and how-to-search-code, that walk an AI tool through the right sequence of tool calls for common tasks.

Existing tool calls are unaffected. See Venue MCP Endpoint for how to connect.

Ask the Assistant about your Skills​

The Assistant can now answer questions about the Skill catalog directly, using two new tools backed by the same data that powers the Skills page.

• List skills for your organization, optionally filtered by search term or repository.
• Get the full detail for a specific skill, including its rendered SKILL.md content, triggers, author, version, and license.

Try asking the Assistant things like:

• "What skills are available for Helm chart scaffolding?"
• "Show me the deploy skill"

See Also​

• Venue MCP Endpoint - Connect external AI tools to query Venue.sh data.
• Skills - Browse agent skills auto-discovered from connected repositories.
• Assistant - Using the Assistant in the Venue.sh portal.

Catalog your MCP Servers​

You can now register and browse MCP Servers in Venue.sh. Add a server by its URL and Venue.sh extracts its capabilities automatically.

• Registration - Add an MCP server by URL; Venue.sh connects and extracts its tools, resources, and prompts.
• Discovery - Browse registered servers in a searchable list, with a detail page showing each capability.
• Lifecycle - Refresh a server's capabilities, edit its details, or remove it when it's no longer needed.

See MCP Servers for details.

Skills are now discovered automatically​

Skills - reusable AI workflow instructions defined in SKILL.md files - are now discovered from your connected Git repositories during repository content ingestion and cataloged for browsing.

• Venue.sh scans connected repositories for SKILL.md files and keeps the catalog in sync as repositories change.
• Each skill's detail page shows its metadata, triggers, and rendered SKILL.md content.

See Skills for details.

Bug fix​

• Fixed an issue where users could not create a new Scorecard.

See Also​

• MCP Servers - Register and inspect MCP servers in your organization.
• Skills - Browse agent skills auto-discovered from connected repositories.
• Scorecards - Validate your catalog entities against defined standards.

The Assistant can now read your repositories​

Repository ingestion and summary can be enabled in Settings, letting the Assistant understand and answer questions about the codebase of your imported repositories.

• Once enabled, the Assistant can answer questions about a repository's codebase and provide project summaries.
• An Entity Summary tab surfaces AI-generated repository insights directly on catalog entity pages.

See Ingestion & Summary for setup details.

Control how hard the Assistant thinks​

You can now adjust the Assistant's thinking effort per model, trading off response speed against depth of reasoning. See Assistant for more on working with the Assistant.

Development Insights improvements​

• Date range selection - Choose the date range you want to view on a given Development Insights dashboard.
• Pie charts - More visually appealing pie charts across dashboards.

See Development Insights for more.

Bug fixes​

• Fixed the MCP Server rename flow and a related username display issue.
• Fixed the copy and download button dropdowns in rendered markdown responses.
• Scorecard categories now display in human-readable form instead of raw codes.

See Also​

• Ingestion & Summary - Enable repository indexing and AI summaries.
• Assistant - Using the Assistant in the Venue.sh portal.
• Development Insights - Dashboards, filters, and data refresh.

Refresh your dashboard on demand​

Instead of waiting for the next scheduled sync, click Refresh at the top of a Development Insights dashboard to trigger data collection for the repositories currently in scope, with status feedback as it runs.

Track sync progress​

A dedicated sync status page shows a live, per-project table of collection pipelines, with a retry option for any row that fails.

See Development Insights for more on dashboards, filters, and data refresh.

Dashboard usability improvements​

• Grouping & collapse - Row panels are now real collapsible sections, and their expanded/collapsed state persists between visits.
• Expand panel - Any panel can now be opened in a full-screen view.
• Error and empty states - Panels show consistent error and empty states, with links to support and documentation.
• Filter overflow - Multi-select filters no longer overflow their row; extra selections collapse into a "+N more" indicator.

See Also​

• Development Insights - Dashboards, filters, and data refresh.
• Jira Connections - Connect Jira projects for issue and sprint data.