What's new

What's new in Orbit.

Product updates in reverse chronological order. Scoped to changes in the MCP extension and the free web apps — each release has its own permalink for sharing.

17 April 2026

0.10.0: Stability hardening + Orbit Intelligence signatures

Per-tool deadlines, response size caps, retry + circuit breakers, attribution signatures, artifact chrome, and the new orbit_check_version tool.

  • Tool deadlines: every tool handler now runs under a per-tool timeout (default 60s, heavy tools up to 120s). No more hung MCP calls quietly blocking a conversation
  • Response size caps: outputs over 200KB are intelligently truncated with an _orbit_truncation block so Claude can still reason about what was returned
  • Retry with exponential backoff: every outbound fetch (Braze, Figma, GitHub) now retries 3 times with 300/600/1200ms delays on transient failures
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17 April 2026

0.9.0: Audit, hardening, foolproof e2e tests

20 audit findings resolved, full Braze region support, 58-test foolproof e2e test package, and a shared error classifier across all 54 tools.

  • 20 audit findings resolved: cursor pagination fix, Braze auth-error classification (no more silent empty-workspace reports), all 54 tool handlers wrapped in shared error classifier, process-level uncaughtException and unhandledRejection handlers, concurrent-safe rate limiter
  • All Braze cluster regions now supported: US (iad), EU (eus, fra), Australia (au), India (ind) and any future clusters — dashboard URLs derived generically instead of a hand-maintained list
  • Dedupe: braze-sync.js now uses the shared Braze client instead of its own private copy. Bug fixes land in one place
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16 April 2026

7 Free Web Apps

Standalone browser-based tools for Braze naming, email size checks, Liquid syntax, push previews, significance testing, IP warm-up, and percentage change.

  • Email Size Checker: check HTML file size, Gmail clipping risk (102KB), inline data URI detection, missing alt text, bloated CSS, and HTML comment weight
  • Orbit Namer: generate consistent Braze naming conventions with smart tag recommendations and custom free-text option per dropdown
  • Percentage Change: calculate period-over-period percentage change between two values
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16 April 2026

Braze Intelligence Layer: 17 New MCP Tools

Full workspace-awareness for Braze: instance audit, canvas reader, performance data, segment analysis, template collision detection, and more.

  • Instance Audit: full inventory of Canvases, campaigns, segments, content blocks, and templates
  • Canvas Reader: read Canvas structures and reverse-map to Orbit message plans
  • Performance Data: time-series metrics for Canvas entries, campaign rates, segment growth
Read all 13 changes

7 April 2026

Email Production and Brand Kit

MJML templates, HTML compilation, cross-device previews, Figma import, brand kit intake, and Braze sync — the full email production loop.

  • Brand header generation with Gemini AI integration
  • Brand kit intake workflow: colours, logos, fonts, tone of voice
  • Email template specs, MJML generation, HTML compilation
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31 March 2026

Orbit Launch

Initial release: Claude Desktop MCP extension with 50+ lifecycle marketing skills, program discovery, message planning, and lifecycle diagrams.

  • Initial release of Orbit as an MCP extension for Claude Desktop
  • 50+ specialist lifecycle marketing skills
  • Program discovery workflow with structured intake
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