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Velocity5.0

Programmable headless content management system with structured content and the GROQ query language

Sanity is quietly wiring its CMS to be operated by agents as much as by humans.

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Current state
Sanity is shipping on several fronts in parallel: a maturing MCP server and agent tooling, a Media Library growing real asset-management depth, and steady Studio and SDK ergonomics. The recent run is incremental but coherent — richer Media Library metadata and reference tracking, searchable reference fields, and a stream of MCP tool fixes. Nothing here reshapes the product; it is compounding polish on an already broad platform.
Where it's heading
The clearest theme is agent-operability. The MCP server, a skills-install CLI command, agent-focused doc quickstarts, and copy-paste commands 'for humans and agents' all point at Sanity treating AI coding agents as a first-class way to drive the CMS. In parallel, Media Library is being built out toward a full DAM, and @sanity/presets is trimming schema boilerplate.
Prediction
Expect the MCP and agent surface to keep expanding and Media Library to keep gaining DAM-grade features; the presets package suggests more ready-made schema building blocks ahead.

Recent moves

  1. 2d ago

    Sanity Studio v6.4.0: Improved requests error handling and bug fixes

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  2. 3d ago

    MCP server v2.26.1: Deployment error handling improvements

    A maintenance release hardening MCP tools against deployment errors — part of the ongoing stabilization of Sanity's agent interface rather than a capability change.

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  3. 7d ago

    Media Library: Improved asset metadata, in-use references, and clearer duplicate upload feedback

    Richer metadata, a more complete 'in use' references dialog spanning drafts and releases, and clearer duplicate-upload feedback push Media Library further toward a real DAM. Solid depth on the asset-management front of the platform.

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  4. 9d ago

    Sanity Docs: New guides for GROQ, Sanity Context, Blueprints in CI, and more

    New GROQ, Sanity Context, and CI Blueprints guides plus agent quickstarts — documentation work that reinforces the agent-readiness theme without shipping product capability.

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  5. 9d ago

    Sanity Studio v6.3.0: Portable Text Editor legacy cleanup, improved releases table display, and scrollable release descriptions

    Portable Text drops legacy data-slate attributes (consumers targeting them in CSS or tests must migrate to data-pt-*), alongside releases-table and dialog fixes and Codex CLI oAuth for MCP. Cleanup that tightens the editor's DOM contract.

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  6. 15d ago

    Sanity Studio v6.2.0: Search in dereferenced list preview fields, new skills command, and bugfixes

    Searchable reference fields in list and global search close a real gap, and a new skills-install command lets agents add Sanity skills to existing projects — another step in the agent-tooling arc, bundled with crash and editor fixes.

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